Why? Because touch is so unintuitive? How utterly retarded.

I like how thin it is and all but controlling it by bending just seems a little daft.

This would be relevant to my interests if this came as a flexible sheath that wrapped around my bulge.

>> ^shuac:

Why? Because touch is so unintuitive? How utterly retarded.


In its current form its retarded , but its the kind of thing that when refined and made main stream or affordable u find unexpected uses for it.

off the top of my head the bend button and flexiable screen could be good if its a phone that wraps around u arm when its in that position the phone would know its on your arm due to the bend button being pressed ,

maby if you had like small long screens that attached to u hand but over the top of u fingers so as u moved each finger it did certain things and also displayed as a screen on each finger.




the issue with these demos is they use current tech and known methods to demo them when in reality they will be used with something thats largely alain to what we use now.

Also Evan if it is retarded that wont necessarily stop it from catching on , look at justin bibers popularity , and the fact that people still happily pay 10p a message to send a txt massage ( not saying txt message or limited txt message is bad but paying 10p for under2kb of data is mental)

Westy... the retarded part isn't the flexible screen. That's pretty damn cool, and I can't wait for phones that can wrap into something resembling a pen or other cilindrical shape.

The retarded part is controlling the phone with bending... it's just so damn stupid, and because they have to had those bending sensors in the back, it just makes the screen a whole lot thicker than it has to be.

>> ^EMPIRE:

Westy... the retarded part isn't the flexible screen. That's pretty damn cool, and I can't wait for phones that can wrap into something resembling a pen or other cilindrical shape.
The retarded part is controlling the phone with bending... it's just so damn stupid, and because they have to had those bending sensors in the back, it just makes the screen a whole lot thicker than it has to be.


yah I agree, thats what i was partly trying to say in my comment , that its retarded in this context , but the bendy buttons or having bending of the screen as navigation might prove to be usfull in some other format rather than used in a clone of what a current smart phone is.



obvously in this case the bending is redundent to this device and a hinderance but maby bending the screen to navigate might be benoficail in other devices or for other uses where a capacative screen or tuch screen might not work ,




as another brain wave , people waring thick gloves or working in environments with lots of vibration for example would benefit from having this type of navigation and physical interface , underwater repair divers, sky divers , astranorts doing space walks , people with hutchinsons or late stage parkinsons might be able to use this to navigate complex menues. that sort of thing.