Speaking at MobileBeat in San Francisco today, HP's Phil McKinney chatted up
the company's flexible display tech, which uses rugged Mylar-infused sheets similar to those found in solar panels and can display video while still being bistable the same way
E Ink is -- in other words, it'll hold an image without power. Thankfully, this seems to be more than a pipe dream sitting in a lab somewhere, because McKinney went on to say that "these are the kinds of display technologies that will change what we think of in form factors, both in products from Palm with flexible displays, and with HP." In other words, it's entirely within the realm of reason to imagine a bendy
webOS device that gingerly sips battery juice -- or stops sipping it altogether -- while you're reading the morning news. We wouldn't expect it any time soon, of course, but it's encouraging to hear a conservative industry behemoth like HP start to talk like this. In the meantime, can we just get a new
Pre, guys?
posted July 12th 2010 1:59PM
This also has the potential for some real Harry Potter shit, you are reading the newspaper and the image on the front page is moving around and looking back at you, that would be pretty cool.
talk about the hp slate!!! is it coming?? or is it dead??
@TheSunman89
if is just running plain Win7, i hope its dead. But a tweaked version of WebOS or a even more tweaked version of Win7 and it might be good.
@TheSunman89
Isn't this the guy from HP's Slate interview video?
Man, ANY Palm device from Palm would be good at this point!! Come on HP, WebOS tablet!! Please!! Or just a new phone!! How bout a wristwatch?? Ballpoint pen?? Anything???
Next time I'm in San Francisco I might have to "pick" one of these up..
I second the call for new hardware...
If you see a stylus or a task manager, 'they blew it
@refink
Steve is wrong on that. You don't want to have to use a stylus, but, for things like drawing, you want to have the precision that a big fat finger doesn't give you.
Beside a cloth he is holding or showing, I don't see any real things. Some people just like to talk, which happens often.
Holy crap. They just invented newspaper!
So, does the fact that HP is talking about this mean that the WebOS tablet isn't going to make it to market in the third quarter? Apple showed the iPad about two months from release, and that's just about now for a q3 release.
Or maybe they did show it, and it is the iPad Killer (print straight to WebOS printers over wifi), and the Engadget "reporters" pissed their pants, then said to themselves, and each other, "if we ignore it, maybe it will just go away."
*glances at whiteboard in the background*
TV is the "richest" medium/device in terms of content? O_o Ummm PC/general internet, anyone?
I'm pretty sure when apple does this to the next gen iPhone it will claim it's the first to put a magical screen on a phone and bankrupt hp
Whatever!
That display won't be used in a flexible way. HP is bullshitting us.
It would be housed in a rigid structure because constant bending would cause the wires to break.
The flex is just a "WOW" factor.
GTFOOH!!!!!
Wasn't it HP's Phil McKinney that chatted up HPs Windows 7 Slate in numerous venues and videos? Like I still trust him.
Okay so the display itself is flexible?
What about the other innards of what will be operating what's on the display? CPU/Motherboard? Battery? Etc.
It's either going to have to be all made flexible as well, or stored in a separate pack, which in my eyes can make or break it depending on how they design the final product, whatever it's application may be.
That guy is awful proud of his giant black panel. I'd be lying if I said I didn't want to get a hold of it.
Okay, this looks very cool. Hopefully this isn't another tease of something that may not hit the market till 2020. It would be nice to see it roll out in some sort of workable prototype in the 3rd quarter of 2012;)
What's the point in waiting for a collaborative effort between the two. It's going to take months if not years to put all the HP mobile ideas into play with what Palm's been working on. WebOS was designed from day one to work on a variety of hardware. GIVE US THAT HARDWARE! I don't care if HP has to buy generic Nexus One's from HTC and slap their logo on it, they need a new Palm WebOS product on the market immediately or they just burned $1 billion, plain and simple. This market won't stand still and consumers forget quickly. Even diehard WebOS folk are moving on.
First, try and make good solid hardware!
Am I really the only one happy to hear HP's Phil McKinney make a distinction between the HP and Palm side of things. Perhaps Palm will be allowed to be seperate enough that HP will only help :-)