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Roll-Up Computer: Yay or Nay?

Posted June 19, 2009 9:23 AM

From Discovery News Top Stories : Discovery Channel:

This is either a step forward or a step back. You tell us. A computer display that you can roll up and stick in your pocket like a magazine. We'll check it out on Engineering Works! Computers are nifty. But they're hard to take with you. Even a laptop is too big to put in your pocket. And the displays on small portables like Blackberries are hard to read.

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06/19/2009 12:02 PM

Between roll-up keyboards and roll-up displays, life is getting awful cool!

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06/19/2009 3:16 PM

And of course fruit roll-ups.

Although tragedy may ensue if mistaking any of the three for the other in the bleary time just before work / school.

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06/19/2009 3:24 PM

Or we make the screens and keyboards out of impregnated potato starch and have survival rations handy?

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