Flexible displays are used extensively in mobile gadgets, but as long as their screens are fixed in position. However, the situation will change soon. South Korea’s Samsung wants to release a smartphone, which will bend everything including housing and internal components.

Application for registration of the relevant patent was filed back in 2014. And a success. In early March, the company received the right to the technology. Created on the basis of its device can be transformed, adapting to the needs of the owner.

What is the secret approach? The design consists of special sections, changing position relative to one another and fixed in different positions.

Novelty easily fixed on the clothes: it provides special “framework” that turn into clips. As the material is planned to use a synthetic resin, glass, or fiberglass. The battery is assembled in a similar manner: from individual cells distributed over the entire length of the device. When deformation battery does not get damaged.

When exactly will present to the public a unique phone – not reported.

The experience of this production has the Samsung. In late 2013, she released Galaxy Round with a curved display. A recently released Galaxy S6 Edge got the panel, the edges of which “swim” straight to the point.

Source: Ubergizmo

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Activity sensor FitLinxx AmpStrip fundamentally different from their counterparts, which are usually presented in the form of bracelets. This fitness tracker is flexible and thin waterproof device designed to keep discreet wear directly on the body in order to monitor performance of the athlete.

Appearance sensor activity FitLinxx AmpStrip

AmpStrip body made of silicone. The device is mounted under the left breast Adhesive and allows you to define parameters such as:

• The heart rate.
• The position of the body.
• Time of activity.
• The level of physical activity.
• skin temperature.
• The number of steps you’ve walked.
• The number of calories lost.
• The level of stress.
• Level of breath.
• The quality of sleep.
• Correct posture.

Tracker activity FitLinxx AmpStrip Body athlete

The main sensor devices are heart rate monitor and an accelerometer. Data transmission on Android-smartphone is made in real time, this applies to the wireless communication module. Correct calculation algorithms provide the author.

Charging everyday activity tracker AmpStrip just made wireless technology. One cycle lasts for a week round the clock. According to the developers, waterproof, easy to stick to the body and does not restrict movement, and also does not feel physically. The set comes restock adhesive film for six months.

According to the creators, fitness tracker to avoid undue stress and negative consequences that arise if you want to quickly improve their physical performance. When exceeding the limits set in advance, the unit will give an appropriate signal to the smartphone.

In addition, it is reported that this tracker is much easier bracelets because they do not rub the skin and does not interfere to perform certain exercises. The same model can be constantly “aware” of what makes your body, while the bracelets can be removed from the hands, resulting in lost thread of research and analysis.

Today, the company continues to gain momentum on Crowdfunding. The above advantages have made the model so popular that at the time of this writing, the threshold for the start of mass production was exceeded by 6.5 times (653%). Instead of the required $ 50 thousand enthusiasts gathered nearly 327,000 USD. The cost of a tracker is 120 USD.

Source: Indiegogo

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Korean company presented Jenax flexible battery capacity of 3000 mAh – J.Flex. During a demonstration of its capabilities, developers stacked battery in half, crumpled it, they even get out of it folded origami, while the battery continued to work without reducing capacity.

NEW appeared just at a time when manufacturers began to produce “smart” clothes and accessories, which are still used with conventional rechargeable batteries, which entails some inconvenience for gadget developers as well as for their carriers.

In addition, flexible batteries will fall just in time to (once!), Flexible devices, production of which is gradually gaining momentum.

At present, the capacity of the battery will be enough for use in modern smartphones and various “smart” accessories. According to the developers, they have updated only the structure of the battery, while the technology of lithium-ion batteries did not change.

Examples of the use of the battery, you can find a lot: the battery can be used in the fitness bracelets, fit it into the strap along its entire length, say, or embedded in the lining of the bag to be charged from her smartphone.

Another feature is the battery thickness – 2.3 mm. The battery consists of several cells of square shape whose side length – 80 mm, and the capacity was 1000 mAh. If present the “veil” of flexible batteries three meters long and 0.2 meters wide (and 0.5 mm in thickness), it will have a capacity of as much as 17,500 mAh. Thus, increasing the thickness can be increased, and battery capacity.

Add to this the lack of such batteries rabies, and it becomes clear how soon can be a bright future.

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LG is confident feeling in the production of displays and is one of the leaders in the industry. Recently, the Korean manufacturer has introduced a screen with a record-thin frame, and is now ready for mass production of a truly flexible display, created by technology company actively promotes P-OLED.

The manufacturer has already repeatedly demonstrated intermediate variants of flexible displays, which have not yet been used in mass production, but the company already has solutions that can be considered quite real product. The first samples have already been submitted to customers for testing, according to OLED-Display.

Existing OLED luminous modules are based on glass, bending is restricted and blocked 75 mm. New same solution that was developed LG Chem – chemical company division – can be bent to a radius of 30 mm. Besides this development, as the creators say, excludes power panel damage, even at applying excessive force.

The main difficulty in the transition to a plastic substrate, the LG called the preservation of efficiency, brightness and color of the display, but the chemical laboratory almost completely coped with this task – existing solution provides 60 lm / W power consumption, 75 lumens of brightness, the average color temperature of 3000K, the color rendering index – more than 85 engineering models now sell for $ 250, and mass production is scheduled for July 2015.

This information confirms that LG is trying to stick to your plan for the development of display technologies. Perhaps the company will present this display in the next iteration of its high-tech LG G Flex 2, which is now installed curved display. The development can be used in smart watches the company, but it is hardly the gadget will be ready for Mobile World Congress 2015, where LG may introduce a second generation G Watch R with support for LTE.

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Apple has the right to use the patent, which describes a smart, controlled by a flexion. It also describes the flexible displays are used as advertising media.

American United States Patent Office has reported receiving a patent for an Apple gadget controlled by folding.

The patent is number 8,855,727 and, as the name suggests, is issued to “mobile electronic device with an adaptive responsive flexible display.”

While the documentation described gadget consistently referred to as “wearable computing device” or “advertising device”, as described in the patent, it is a smart phone with the ability to share content with a remote stationary server. By creating a long-standing patent it underscores the flexibility devices to send and receive MMS.

Based on the information from the Patent Office, users of the future “flexible iPhone” will have the opportunity not just to bend it or fold, but can also, changing the shape of the device, control its functions.

The patent contains only the most general description of the physical principles of operation of the device, but it describes the ways in which the user, bending it can give him the command (run video, send e-mail, etc.).

Besides in the patent describes how to change the size of the flexible display enable several small flexible displays in a large screen, folding the flexible display in a compact rectangular or cylindrical shell for transporting and fastening it to the external structures for use as an advertising medium.

Interestingly, the original patent Apple’s interactive flexible display direct author of the idea was listed Harry Vartanian, writes Apple Insider.

In 2011, a patent was issued to a small research company called HJ Laboratories, owned Vartanyan and Jaron Rhodes. It remains unclear whether Apple bought the patent, license, or get right to it in another way.

HJ Laboratories owns numerous inventions in the field of geo-but a patent for a flexible display is still the only patent originally registered HJ Laboratories, and assigned to Apple.

Now HJ Laboratories number of actions a company registered in the state of Pennsylvania, however, can not be excluded that the assignment of a patent Apple it means that it has already absorbed “apple company,” the authors write Apple Insider.

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Employees of Samsung day after day working on a smart phone of the future. The finished device will appear in stores at once. But now the South Korean company patented device that can be folded in half, without causing it any harm.

Such a patent application, as reported by Patently Mobile, Samsung was filed in February 2014. It shall be accompanied technical drawings. However, this does not mean that the device will be ready in any way similar to the painted. It is well known that Samsung pays considerable attention to flexible displays. Now, when the market was saturated traditional smartphones, it’s time for new form factors, says columnist Android Authoruty Bogdan Petrovan. And so Device can be a phone that can be folded in half to form from one half of the screen keyboard.

The patent application contains a lot of technical details that will be of little interest to most readers. These subtleties are understood only by engineers, and they say about how the South Korean experts tehnokompanii make phone not only bend in half, but then recover its original shape.

Much more interesting technical drawings that demonstrate possible applications as a flexible smartphone. It can in a few moments turn into miniature laptop or desktop electronic calendar, as well as an alarm clock on the nightstand.

However, this is just a patent application, and it does not follow that such a device would ever see the light. We have before us one of the ideas that “samsung” engineers are paying attention. Presumably, many of these ideas, but in reality will be realized only the best of the best. But the most information about what the company is working on a similar project, indicating further development of mobile technologies. The fact that the new form factors of smartphones – a matter of time, and the current standard hard rectangle will remain for many years and decades, the only form that can be assumed “umnofon.”

The creation of such a smartphone rests on display. It must withstand multiple bending quietly without losing image quality. Samsung has already shown flexible displays on plastic base, but in order to become practically useful, it should possess excellent wear resistance.

The second difficulty in the way of a flexible phone is so tender that the display must be something to protect. Incredibly durable glass Gorilla Glass in this situation is not suitable. And it’s obvious. However, glass is not yet a perfect set up . But Corning Glass and several other companies are working on a thin, flexible glass. Suffice it to recall Corning Willow Glass. This means that it is absolutely flexible phone is closer to reality than it might seem.

Another thing, and whether users need a smartphone? What is it so significant advantages? Whether or not the development of similar devices of effort and money?

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Here the alleged technical specifications of the Samsung smartphone with flexible display.

We recently informed of the intention to Samsung to launch its first device with curved display as early as next week (or at least by the end of the month). Now here comes some confirmations of the alleged technical specifications of the smartphone.

There is talk of a device with hardware components of the medium-high, equipped with:

• Display 4.7″ with a resolution of 1280x720p
• Quad-core SoC
• 2GB of RAM
• 8-megapixel rear camera
• Android 4.3

Obviously these rumors are to be taken, as always, with pliers, but it is not unthinkable that the Korean company has opted for a solution of this kind, “recycling” maybe the Exynos in the Galaxy SIII.

What do you think then? What can we expect this time the company? We do not know, but, as always, we will keep you updated about further developments.

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Prototypes of flexible displays various companies have repeatedly demonstrated at various international exhibitions and events, and reports on new developments circulating the web, at least since 2007. Apparently, already reached a point where we can talk about the actual timing of the start of production of flexible displays for mobile devices.

According to South Korean resource ET News citing industry sources, in November of Samsung Display and LG Display will begin mass production of flexible panels, is lightweight, high strength and reduced in comparison with the prototypes thick.

Available capacities allow Samsung to provide up to 1.5 million flexible displays with a diagonal of 5 to 6 inches, assuming 100% yield. In fact, the quality of the panels, especially at first, to be desired, so you can talk about the release of about one million displays per month.

LG Display capabilities are much lower – about 500,000 of flexible displays per month. Japanese and Taiwanese companies are also working on flexible OLED-displays, but mass production will be a long time.

Note that the first device from Samsung with this display can be flexible hours Galaxy Gear , the company announced on September 4, together with its flagship smartphone Galaxy Note III .

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Samsung has filed a patent application describing the smart watch. The network has the image device. However, the final version of the device may look different.

Meanwhile, we can only assume that the clock will have a flexible display that the Korean giant electronics industry is not the first shows at various exhibitions.

Journalists Sammobile carefully studied the available images and found the sketch clock power button, touch-sensitive keys “Menu” and “Back” button, microphone, speaker and port microUSB. If you believe the rumors, the device will be called the Galaxy Gear and it will be presented simultaneously with the Galaxy Note III on 4 September.

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