We've yet to see a trade show where Sony left its Rhode Island-sized booth at home, and CEATEC is no exception. Aside from pushing its 1080p 3D installations with an epic amount of force, the company also had a smattering of swank new concepts on display that caught our eyes. A 0.2 millimeter-thin flexible OLED display was alive and displaying content, while an ultrathin Reader mock-up looked more like a MID and less like a Kindle. Without question, the two items that took our breath away were the all-panel laptop (which tossed the traditional keyboard in favor of a single, swooping display) and the Walkman bracelet, which did little more than talk dirty to us and get our imaginations working overtime. Unfortunately, all the good stuff was behind bulletproof glass with practically zero information to digest, but you can indulge your senses anyway in the gallery below and video after the break.
Sony always does a good job of ruining or needlessly restricting an awesome concept. Until you can buy it at Newegg, and it actually gets great reviews, it's vaporware.
Cool, a bunch of things that can't exist because we don't have the battery technology to do it.
Unless you have an inductive charger in your wrist. And I'm not sure where the computer went in the laptop. Paperthing OLED = cool. Paper thin computers and batteries = still a while off...
No way Apple will be making this... at least for 3 years. They are, IMHO, always behind on technology by 1 or 2 years, like how the original iPhone had no 3G, just EDGE. I feel Sony is the opposite, they are usually the forefront of bringing new technology to the consumers, and are also very high quality but they don't have much appeal due to price (New tech is always expensive, but someone has to introduce it). If Sony can beat them to the punch, more power to them.
“Structurally we've got to hand it to HP -- we've felt quite a few thin-and-lights flex in our hands as we've picked them up, but the dm3 is remarkably solid.”
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posted Oct 6th 2009 5:13AM
To think that a working flexible OLED notebook even exists is awesome.
Can engadget at least confirm that the laptop works?
I just know i will not be sleeping tonight if i do not have a clear cut answer.
I have a 1mm thick screen right now.... works great with my 1080p projector
+1
so, is it portable?
it certainly does blend.
The bracelet was pretty awesome, the reader is eh, and the laptop design is amazing. Now, I can only HOPE these products end up coming out...
How can we hope to share music by crossing arms with that much DRM?
It'll probably include a feature that shocks you when you try share Copy-protected music.
These concepts are incredible... And also look like they could actually see production one day, unlike the Fujitsu concepts.
I thought this has been posted already? CES? Move along.
Sony does show all these gadgets already at the CES-2009!
http://www.oled-display.net/events/ces-2009
You are correct. Sony showed these during CES 2009 - this is all just the same stuff.
http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/13/sony-shows-off-flexible-oled-walkman-concepts-on-video/
http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/12/sonys-flexible-oled-mockups/
Sony Insider also had the above videos back in January 2009. But that doesn't matter to be honest. This technology is exciting and worth repeating.
I can't see all the video - is that laptop with the flexi screen a working prototype?
wouldnt it be hard to type on that vaio?
Touch-typing would require ether dimples/vibration for F and J, or even better...
..hand tracking, so you just put you hands down and the keys appear under your fingers.
Sony always does a good job of ruining or needlessly restricting an awesome concept. Until you can buy it at Newegg, and it actually gets great reviews, it's vaporware.
Imagine the trouble the setup crew went through to insure that none of those things had fingerprints on them.
I think the burning question on everyone's mind is, how many infants do we have to sacrifice to buy one of those laptops?
This would be perfect for making an ultra thin lightweight tablet pc.
Cool, a bunch of things that can't exist because we don't have the battery technology to do it.
Unless you have an inductive charger in your wrist. And I'm not sure where the computer went in the laptop. Paperthing OLED = cool. Paper thin computers and batteries = still a while off...
It reminds me of this awesome concept I saw.
http://www.yankodesign.com/2009/04/29/macbook-touch-maybe-just-maybe/
No way Apple will be making this... at least for 3 years. They are, IMHO, always behind on technology by 1 or 2 years, like how the original iPhone had no 3G, just EDGE. I feel Sony is the opposite, they are usually the forefront of bringing new technology to the consumers, and are also very high quality but they don't have much appeal due to price (New tech is always expensive, but someone has to introduce it). If Sony can beat them to the punch, more power to them.