Submitted 3 days ago by Blxter@lemmy.zip to technology@lemmy.zip
This stretchable technology goes beyond expanding its size, though, as you can freely twist, extrude, and fold it without damaging the screen.
Those look pretty cool, Im not sure where I would use it yet, but I’m sure they will end up being useful for various things. A lot of displays in dashboard look displeasing to the eye to me, I’m sure curving screens could help with that. I foresee many a dick joke being made with them as well. (Couldn’t help myself)
You aren’t thinking corporate profit centric uses…
We can put these on clothing so people can sell their personal ad space to companies!
Look at me, I am the billboard now!
Don’t we already do that when we buy branded ANYTHING? Hell, most people pay MORE for certain brands instead of less because you’re literally advertising for that brand.
Oh, so close. We can put these on clothing so we can sell ad space to companies while you pay extra for the privilege.
I’m waiting for a screen/phone I can use like those wrist bracelets you slap on when you were younger and then take off and extend to be a phone and maybe extend so far to be a tablet.
Couldn’t they just use our existing curved screen technology that we see on gaming and work station monitors? The real innovation here is being stretchy and moldable and i doubt those features are needed for a dashboard.
Malls could use this screens around columns. It would probably make those phones’ edges easier to make. Foldable screens could benefit from this too. As you said dashboards in cars would be prettier. Since they’re malleable, it would probably be easier to make curved displays. Your watch could display information around your wrist. Fashion people could even use this thing around necks and wrists. I don’t know, I could think many industries could use this.
Sit down to read a book, stretch your phone screen out to a comfortable holding size to read. Could be nice.
Randomly stretched screen would be even more displeasing to eyes I guess.
I wonder if it can make regular screens more abuse-proof.
This is a “Solution Before Problem™” but still extremely cool as a technology
I’m not familiar with the phones you mentioned, but folding and unfolding something doesn’t stretch it or change its length. Think about folding and unfolding a piece of paper.
it does though! even for very thin objects like a sheet of paper, bending anything will stretch/squish material depending on whether it’s on the inside or outside of the bend. that’s why paper becomes creased when it’s folded!
an easy way to think about it is with tubes. the inside circumference is always smaller than the outside because when you introduce a curve you’re either lengthening the outside, shortening the inside, or both.
That’s okay I guess; when are they planning on making products that don’t suck?
I got five air conditioners from them years back for an old house I lived in, and they all busted at the same time. I got a DVD rewriter from them which also busted. I got a TV from them a short while ago and it’s also busted. Literally the only product I ever got from them that didn’t bust (yet!) was a fridge. I wouldn’t have bought the TV either if it wasn’t somewhat cheap, well-sized and 4K (8K?).
my hungry ass could not be trusted around the stretchy screen
Maybe they can work on clothing, can have live images charging on a shirt.
I didn’t see the point of foldable phones. This is meh to me.
Fermion@feddit.nl 3 days ago
Make a mask with this that continually changes the appearance of the wearers face to confuse ai surveillance tracking.
crazyminner@lemmy.ml 3 days ago
They already have those with little projectors.
Fermion@feddit.nl 3 days ago
Is this what you’re referring to?
instructables.com/Face-Changing-Projection-Mask-B…
That’s pretty neat and I didn’t know that existed. The whole external projector requirement is rather limiting though. A cloth like screen could be a nice improvement to the concept.
AndrewZabar@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Yes, just after they make Rorschach’s mask.
Mango@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Yeah boiii!
Mango@lemmy.world 3 days ago
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