It's another day and another flexible display prototype gets to tease us with its sexiness.
Taiwan's Industrial Technology Research Institute is working with design firm Pilotfish to develop a mobile phone with a foldable display embedded within.
Unlike the other foldable displays we've recently seen, the device's screen is a TFT-EPD screen and the mechanism appears to be built around the technology – one side slides up (or out) from the phone chassis to create a 5-inch screen.
If you're worried about the phone's thick appearance, it's not because of the need to accommodate the screen in the middle. The hinge only uses up one cm of space, or about 0.39 inches.
ITRI Managing Director Nick Vasiljevic says that even though this is their only public design, it could easily be adopted for larger displays on different formats. Presumably (and this is our own speculation), this could mean foldable displays for Netbooks or other gadgets (like the PSP) that force users to suffer from the eye-strain of small display areas.
This is the second recent mock-up we've seen detailing this idea. As we mentioned earlier, Samsung is preparing their own flexible display mod from their development group and that one looks pretty great.
We fully expect to hear of other companies getting in to this technology and will keep you updated as they come in.
Source: Pilotfish, engadget
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