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Comments on OLEDs Connected In Stretchable Display
Why not just print a watch onto your sleeve? With this device from Takao Someya and colleagues, you can do it now if you want. (Read
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| "In Alastair Reynold's book "Pushing Ice" an organic tablet PC-like object was used.
Individually, it had limited computing capacity, but could be placed in a network of similar tablets to increase it's computing power.
It was malleable (could be stretched or molded into any shape by its user) and was recharged using bio-electricity by placing it anywhere on the user's body.
It could be used as a display, a computer, and a communicator. All without a central computer to coordinate things. True P2P networking." (Perry 5/17/2009 10:17:36 PM) |
| "Perry, thanks - I've added an entry for flexy (or flexies)." (Bill Christensen 5/18/2009 4:34:22 AM) |
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