It's beautiful, I would never use it.
BUT, there are several interesting ideas there to create something beautiful AND useful...
The very definition of concept.
Ditching that keyboard would be the first thing. Make the screen touchable, then no problem implementing a virtual keyboard there.
But I'm guessing the computer parts would be on the keyboard... still, better to put some keys on it (at least IMHO).
Finally, everyday I say a little pray for the day gadget makers stop with the glossy crap. #samsungamoledconcepts
what is wrong with that dude? he looks all excited to grab the screen in the first picture so he can grab a hockey player to eat, yet in the second picture he doesn't want to eat flipper? cannibals make me sick. #samsung3damoledtv
@asalas: Actually, iPhone has a 3.5" screen. This is 2.8". Doesn't mean it couldn't go in an iPhone, though. I would imagine they'll be making this larger. After all, Samsung's Moment phone has a 3.2" AMOLED (no idea if it's this one). Most smartphones are bigger than 2.8" these days. #samsungamoled
pshhh hammers... try putting 40 lbs of pressure on it with an industrial press like we did last night. thats 8+ ford F350's. It didnt end well. Hint explosion..... #samsungamoled
@haroldiv: Your use of "we" suggests that you were one of the people there. One of the people that let that idiot stand so close to a press that was crushing a piece of metal that could have killed him. I wouldn't promote this, I'd be embarrassed of it. Almost Darwin award my friend. #samsungamoled
@The Lab: very valid argument however.... not posting such an obvious fail of a video would violate every nerd bone in my body. How many nutshot videos never hit the net cause some guy was embarrassed? None of us expected it to explode... the one before it bent in half. oh and no thats not me, i was "safely" behind a camera the whole time.... #samsungamoled
@Adam Spano: That's a huge part of it but you could also have things like roll up display like the old Readius. [gizmodo.com] I think another big application would be for advertising with displays that conformed to various shapes. #samsungamoled
@FigNinja: Around the 2 minute mark is what I guess you're talking about. I hear the noise, but it seems really off. I wanna kinda call quasi-shenanigans on this. #samsungamoled
Solving a non-existent problem IMO... how many times does someone pass off a passport with someone else's picture on it, and succeed because they looked fairly similar to the person on the passport?
When they experimented with photo-ID credit cards they found that the photos weren't even glanced at.
It would make it harder to make a counterfeit from scratch, but even if the chips on the real passports were "unhackable," if all they did was display images when energized, it could just be implemented in another way on the copies.
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BUT, there are several interesting ideas there to create something beautiful AND useful...
The very definition of concept.
Ditching that keyboard would be the first thing. Make the screen touchable, then no problem implementing a virtual keyboard there.
But I'm guessing the computer parts would be on the keyboard... still, better to put some keys on it (at least IMHO).
Finally, everyday I say a little pray for the day gadget makers stop with the glossy crap. #samsungamoledconcepts
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Also, why did they change between the rubber mallet and the black one? I call shenanigans. #samsungamoled
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When they experimented with photo-ID credit cards they found that the photos weren't even glanced at.
It would make it harder to make a counterfeit from scratch, but even if the chips on the real passports were "unhackable," if all they did was display images when energized, it could just be implemented in another way on the copies.
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Technology and government bureaucracy combine to form inflated costs and avoidable clusterfucks almost without exception.
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