Thursday, 9 October 2014

(News) Apple planning 'smart paper' to replace tablets? Patent reveals double-sided flexible screen

    Apple has patented a flexible display screen that could one day be used to create digital magazines and billboards.
The patent describes a 'digital periodical' that can also double as an in store sign or billboard.

It is controlled by simply flexing or bending the display, and information can be sent to it via mobile phone networks. 


The patent was one of 31 US Patent and Trademark Office newly granted patents for Apple Inc. today.
A mobile electronic device having a flexible display device is disclosed,' the application says,
a request to retrieve information from a server over a wireless network is triggered based on flexing the flexible display device and other gestures. '
'This could be a revolutionary new Apple device that they refer to as a digital periodical' said Patently Apple, which analysed the application


How it could work
Firms such as Samsung are already developing foldable screen technology.
Apple's version has a housing on each side.
Rather that buttons, it is controlled simply by flexing the paper.
The system can also link to mobile phone networks to download new content to display

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