In 2011, Samsung captured consumers’ imagination with an experimental screen that could be bent at will without hurting the display quality. Six years and hundreds of patent applications later, the South Korean mobile giant has reportedly reached a point where it’s all but ready to bring the technology to market. The question that now occupies…
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Sony's cylindrical display will shake up wearables
Wearables have evolved unrecognizably from the original wristwatches of the early 19th century, but manufacturers still have ship their hardware attached to low-tech wristbands for lack of a better option. The first exception may be Sony, which hopes to exploit recent advancements in display technology to break out of the trend line. Revealed in one of the…
Remember the “tall iPhone” parody? Samsung is applying for the rights to make it in real life
It appears that the industrial designers over at Samsung have expanded their creative horizons beyond Apple products to include parodies of Apple products as well, one of which in particular they’ve spent a great deal of effort recreating in a recent patent filing. The result is a retractable monstrosity of a display that could up the ante…