Toshiba's round displays make the display rounds

Remember Toshiba's round LCD displays? Good, 'cause they've got a whole range of prototypes on display at FPD to demonstrate several possible usage scenarios. As an example, how does this cellphone powder your fancy? It's all future-looking stuff so prepare yourself for a cotton-candy filled tip-toe through Tomorrowland, mkay, and head on over to Engadget Japanese for the goods.

[Tim T. @ Oct 24th 2007 6:51AM]

A Simpsons tech convention?

[LondonConsultant @ Oct 24th 2007 7:14AM]

Will mobile phone screens sizes become diameter, radius, or circumference? An important issue to be standardised by the European Union to protect consumers from potentially misleading advertisments. Act now. Email your preference to your MEP!

[L. Cyphre @ Oct 24th 2007 9:35AM]

Don't give them ideas, dammit!

[ethana2 @ Oct 24th 2007 1:46PM]

Size and resolution aren't the same.

Just give me pixels and centimeters.

Quit making up acronyms before I hit you over the head with a WSXGA+ HDMI OLED HDTV (*drools*.. but that's not the point. lol)

[Eric @ Oct 24th 2007 7:34AM]

I wonder how readable they are in direct sunlight?

[Mike @ Oct 24th 2007 7:43AM]

omg rubber gloves!

[joey @ Oct 24th 2007 8:16AM]

yeah, with artificial nails, LOL thats messed up

[Garst @ Oct 24th 2007 2:31PM]

Actually, if you go to the Japanese site, you can see that either the lady holding the phone is indeed yellow, or she has yellow dust covering her entire body.

[Wonderkid @ Oct 24th 2007 7:52AM]

See tease at owonder.com/ophone (mockup created in 2003, front not shown)

[Yoshi @ Oct 24th 2007 2:01PM]

Having second largest market in the world internally, the Japanese can indulge
their own tradition of "Kabuki"( being eccentric) as much as they want.
The stronger the joke its the better.
Most peculiar things is that they are so serious and put so much effort to make
this joke. Believe or not this is the Zen.

[jpxdude @ Oct 24th 2007 9:30AM]

All they need to do now is make a 'Turtle-comm' styled version and i'm sold!

[L. Cyphre @ Oct 24th 2007 9:36AM]

...What?

[porter @ Oct 24th 2007 9:38AM]

Doubles as birth control pill dispenser!

[Yubastard @ Oct 24th 2007 10:18AM]

worst. headline. ever.

[phenom @ Oct 24th 2007 10:22AM]

A round touch screen phone, now would'nt that be something.

[Mercurius @ Oct 24th 2007 10:29AM]

"MOON PRISM POWER MAKE-UP!"

[Chris @ Oct 24th 2007 10:53AM]

I don't think I'd buy a phone that looks like my wife's birth control pack.

Oh Porter.. You me. >:-(

[Samurai Jack @ Oct 24th 2007 10:53AM]

Someone at Toshiba has been watching too much "Totally Spies". That is so, like, a Compowder.

--Clover

[Rainier @ Oct 24th 2007 12:34PM]

Fancy a manicure?

[Jeff Lewis @ Oct 29th 2007 6:28AM]

oFone!