LG's new stretchable display can grow by 50%, bendy panels can be deformed into new form factors

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• Reptorian@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I didn’t see the point of foldable phones. This is meh to me.

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• AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This is a “Solution Before Problem™” but still extremely cool as a technology

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  • rigatti@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    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.

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    • yuri@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      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.

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• Fermion@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Make a mask with this that continually changes the appearance of the wearers face to confuse ai surveillance tracking.

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  • Mango@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Image

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  • AndrewZabar@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yes, just after they make Rorschach’s mask.

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    • Mango@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yeah boiii!

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  • crazyminner@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    They already have those with little projectors.

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    • Fermion@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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• HaleHirsute@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Maybe they can work on clothing, can have live images charging on a shirt.

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• shath@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  my hungry ass could not be trusted around the stretchy screen

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• Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  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?).

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• LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  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)

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  • andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Randomly stretched screen would be even more displeasing to eyes I guess.

    I wonder if it can make regular screens more abuse-proof.

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  • Blxter@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    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.

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  • argh_another_username@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    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.

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    • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Sit down to read a book, stretch your phone screen out to a comfortable holding size to read. Could be nice.

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  • FireRetardant@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    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.

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  • SolNine@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    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!

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    • Pablopablavich@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Oh, so close. We can put these on clothing so we can sell ad space to companies while you pay extra for the privilege.

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    • Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      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.

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