FARK.com: (6796528) Samsung is either trolling the entire world, or is about to blow some minds next year. Apple reportedly scrambling to claim they invented transparency

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netweavr

2011-12-07 05:41:02 PM

I vote for trolling

markie_farkie

2011-12-07 05:43:27 PM

Macintosh is a company?

TheOmni

2011-12-07 06:43:05 PM

I'm betting what happened is that they did develop a transparent flexible AMOLED display. This information was then sent to marketing or whatnot and they had some people make a video promoting it to try and show off what they are developing. And by "this information" I mean "transparent flexible AMOLED display" verbatim. Those four words without any actual explanation of what that is, what it can do, or what it would really look like in consumer use.

Or, maybe, next year's tech announcements are going to be awesome.

netweavr

2011-12-07 06:45:43 PM

If you still think this is real, I have one question for you: where is the power source?

TheOmni

2011-12-07 06:47:42 PM

netweavr: If you still think this is real, I have one question for you: where is the power source?

It's wireless. Obviously.

Darth_Lukecash

2011-12-07 08:15:59 PM

Good god, if they've perfected Hologram Tech....on a flexible screen...at a reasonable price.

Game over man, game over...

(FAKE!)

Man On Fire

2011-12-07 08:30:36 PM

great. they've developed a transparent, flexible display.

now they just need transparent flexible batteries, CPUs, and wireless I/O

minitrue noram

2011-12-07 08:31:57 PM

swanky looking, but that just defies my suspension of disbelief

Diogenes Teufelsdrockh

2011-12-07 08:31:57 PM

s2s2s2

2011-12-07 08:32:57 PM

Hasn't Nokia been claiming they'd blow our collective mind with this tech for the last three years?

A: Yes they were.

apeiron242

2011-12-07 08:36:39 PM

i don't want it until they truncate the corners.

/so say we all

Carth

2011-12-07 08:36:44 PM

Man On Fire: great. they've developed a transparent, flexible display.

now they just need transparent flexible batteries, CPUs, and wireless I/O

This was my thought. Even if the displace is transparent the computer that runs it won't be.

unicron702

2011-12-07 08:38:43 PM

Diogenes Teufelsdrockh: [www.flashfilmworks.com image 620x270]

In that way this could work, just have the ends be where they store all the non "bendy" stuff. Having the display compress back into the ends would also be awesome.

incendi

2011-12-07 08:40:16 PM

apeiron242: i don't want it until they truncate the corners.

Can't. Apple's got the design patent on rounded corners.

Surool

2011-12-07 08:41:30 PM

That'll be neat... along with the transparent power source, mother board, computer chips, processor, wiring, connectors and wifi/cell antenna.

BTW: Did you see the Jetsons? Robot maids will be all the rage next year.

I know you're trolling subby, but damn.

NobleHam

2011-12-07 08:41:37 PM

It's not trolling, but there's no farking way it's going to happen. It's absurdly wishful thinking. Maybe in the 2020s, not 2013.

mudpants

2011-12-07 08:42:37 PM

This sounds really familiar, wonder where I might have seen it.

Terrified Asexual Forcemeat

2011-12-07 08:45:30 PM

But Apple has the design patent on totally made-up sparkly marketing bullshiat that doesn't exist!

/you mean copyright!
//no I mean design patent!
///shut up

mudpants

2011-12-07 08:45:34 PM

Oh wait, right over on the top of the video tab, I would never look for a video there.

Yaxe

2011-12-07 08:46:11 PM

Trolling.

wildstarr

2011-12-07 08:46:17 PM

This will happen, but not in 2013. The flexible display, however, has been around a while.

Goodfella

2011-12-07 08:49:35 PM

Just like that "new iphone" coming out that was supposed to have the holographic projector.

I'll believe it when they start selling it.

Edward Rooney Dean of Students

2011-12-07 08:51:08 PM

netweavr: If you still think this is real, I have one question for you: where is the power source?

Just a guess, but Wireless QI?

T.rex

2011-12-07 08:52:07 PM

AND it can play Flash. Sorry Apple fanboys. you're extinct.

tinyarena

2011-12-07 08:59:38 PM

Processors are not transparent
Power supplies are not transparent
This could be the handheld within range of both?
Anyway, a step in the right direction.

Virtual Pariah

2011-12-07 09:02:21 PM

Diogenes Teufelsdrockh: [www.flashfilmworks.com image 620x270]

That's how I think it could work, if anything in 2012-2013.
Though, I have to admit that it would be a short lived form factor. Can't imagine "The Scroll" being the new in thing.

Shaggy_C

2011-12-07 09:03:00 PM

The whole thing doesn't have to be transparent. The flexible screen, now that's cool - if it can be as thin as the CGI product in the video, why can't we expect a phone that can be unfolded into a full-sized tablet? Corner both markets at once.

SomethingInYourTeeth

2011-12-07 09:10:57 PM

Note the camera angle: they don't show the mini-case PC strapped around his neck or in his hipster "European shoulder bag".

asimplescribe

2011-12-07 09:16:17 PM

Virtual Pariah: Diogenes Teufelsdrockh: [www.flashfilmworks.com image 620x270]

That's how I think it could work, if anything in 2012-2013.
Though, I have to admit that it would be a short lived form factor. Can't imagine "The Scroll" being the new in thing.

It would probably make the lives of some prison inmates a lot easier.

Surool

2011-12-07 09:22:07 PM

T.rex: AND it can play Flash. Sorry Apple fanboys. you're extinct.

You did hear that Adobe has essentially killed Flash, right? No?

bingethinker

2011-12-07 09:23:41 PM

Vaporware is fun.

It's not minds that Subby's mom will be blowing next year.

And another insta-green for a lame troll headline. Hope those pay well, Drew.

sno man

2011-12-07 09:26:28 PM

T.rex: AND it can play Flash. Sorry Apple fanboys. you're extinct.

you say that like flash is the be-all-and-end-all... Do you work for Adobe?

HawgWild

2011-12-07 09:32:28 PM

netweavr: If you still think this is real, I have one question for you: where is the power source?

Pfffftttt ... solar power. Duh.

tjsands1118

2011-12-07 09:34:05 PM

Am I the only one who feels like he would lose the farking thing the first time I put it down? I lose my keys and they solid color and shinny, how the hell would I ever find this thing?

studebaker hoch

2011-12-07 09:34:19 PM

I liked "Samsung unveils video of fantastic mobile device of the future" better.

Guidette Frankentits

2011-12-07 09:43:02 PM

There is but one explanation

i1097.photobucket.com

Carth

2011-12-07 09:43:24 PM

tjsands1118: Am I the only one who feels like he would lose the farking thing the first time I put it down? I lose my keys and they solid color and shinny, how the hell would I ever find this thing?

You'd be able to see the case you put it in so it doesn't break or scratch.

tomWright

2011-12-07 09:54:19 PM

There was a science fiction show a fw years back with communicator tech like this, a scree that pulled out of a handle. They also had transporter tech, and alien space ship in orbit that was not quite but really was ruling Earth.

But damned if I can remember the name.

inglixthemad

2011-12-07 09:55:43 PM

TheOmni: I'm betting what happened is that they did develop a transparent flexible AMOLED display. This information was then sent to marketing or whatnot and they had some people make a video promoting it to try and show off what they are developing. And by "this information" I mean "transparent flexible AMOLED display" verbatim. Those four words without any actual explanation of what that is, what it can do, or what it would really look like in consumer use.

Or, maybe, next year's tech announcements are going to be awesome.

Yeah, I'd like a "Flexi" (Andromeda) or you could use it to create a "Global" (Earth Final Conflict) but it's probably 90% marketing hype.

LasersHurt

2011-12-07 09:55:51 PM

tomWright: There was a science fiction show a fw years back with communicator tech like this, a scree that pulled out of a handle. They also had transporter tech, and alien space ship in orbit that was not quite but really was ruling Earth.

But damned if I can remember the name.

Earth: Final Conflict? (new window)

yves0010

2011-12-07 09:58:30 PM

TheOmni: netweavr: If you still think this is real, I have one question for you: where is the power source?

It's wireless. Obviously.

actually, wasnt HP developing something like this as well. A flexible computer monitor that could be rolled up. I read something about that a little while ago.

tomWright

2011-12-07 10:01:06 PM

and of course as soon as I post that, I remembered.

Earth: final conflict.

Said communicator:
www.ohgizmo.com

Of course, if the flex oled screen is real, the non-screen part will likely be way smaller, closer to a current mobile phone.

tomWright

2011-12-07 10:02:11 PM

LasersHurt: tomWright: There was a science fiction show a fw years back with communicator tech like this, a scree that pulled out of a handle. They also had transporter tech, and alien space ship in orbit that was not quite but really was ruling Earth.

But damned if I can remember the name.

Earth: Final Conflict? (new window)

Yup. I was typing as you posted.

A Roddenberry show, IIRC.

Namahs

2011-12-07 10:07:01 PM

yves0010: TheOmni: netweavr: If you still think this is real, I have one question for you: where is the power source?

It's wireless. Obviously.

actually, wasnt HP developing something like this as well. A flexible computer monitor that could be rolled up. I read something about that a little while ago.

Yea, but even those have solid power sources. The screen will be flexible but it will have to connect to some sort of hard, solid, battery.

I think the plan was to look something like an ancient scroll. Where the whole center, flat area is the screen, but at both ends where you hold the device there is a solid part. You can wrap the screen over this solid part to form a nice compact cylinder, and then unravel it to use the screen.

snowshovel

2011-12-07 10:07:39 PM

Actually, I think the real response goes something like this:

"Flexible transparent display? Why would I want that? My rigid iPad works just fine, and I don't have to worry about bending it, or seeing through it.."

6 months later when the iPad4 comes out as a flexible transparent tablet.

"OHMYGOD! I ahve to get the iPad 4!!! Did you know that it's transparent? And flexible? What will the the geniuses at Apple think of next!"

UsikFark

2011-12-07 10:10:39 PM

My guess: either it's an allegory for a new marketing campaign, like "the world through Samsung" or some bullshiat...

Or it's simply LCD sandwiched between glass sheets, likely requiring a frame to house all solid supporting parts _{[frame not shown because customers are idiots and who wants a farking glass etch-a-sketch.]}

UsikFark

2011-12-07 10:12:14 PM

snowshovel: Did you know that it's transparent? And flexible? What will the the geniuses at Apple think of next!"

"Farkable" (by dicks larger than 3.5mm)

Why Yes I Am A Wizard

2011-12-07 10:16:08 PM

Given the way things have been going lately, this might THE device to have in 2012:

oyster.ignimgs.com

maq0r

2011-12-07 10:16:13 PM

I'm afraid if I put it on somewhere I won't be able to find it.

FREDIOHEAD

2011-12-07 10:23:30 PM

Does anyone read the whole thread anymore?

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