Our displays are about to get an overhaul. The days of rigid screens are on the way out, making room for new flexible displays. It is yet to be seen whether this new technology will be the next big step forward or just the latest “in thing”.
Nokia Kinetic
Nokia revealed at their ‘Nokia World 2011′ their latest technology in the form of the Kinetic. This hails the dawn of a new era of mobile technology with its revolutionary new force technology. The Kinetic is not the next step from touchscreens, but instead the next step of rigid displays. This new technology that Nokia is hoping to release next year, will be used in conjunction with the current touchscreen technology. This new flexible display technology provides a whole new level of flexibility (pardon the pun) to mobile technology. As you will see in the video below, developed in Finland, the new twist technology is to solve the problem of gloved fingers once and for all.
How It Works.
The new Nokia Kinetic uses revolutionary technology that requires the user to physically twist and contort the device to move through its features. Some of the motions required to operate the Kinetic include twisting, bending and squeezing. Now, you may be sitting there thinking that it sounds like a joke, but from the reactions of those trialling the Nokia Kinetic at Nokia World 2011, well, they just couldn’t put it down.
Plus, there comes an added advantage of a flexible smartphone. Notably, no breaking of your screen when you sit on it or drop it.
There is no date set as of yet for when we can get our hands on the Kinetic.
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Nokia are not the only manufacturer playing with this new technology. In early 2011, Samsung unveiled their own flexible OLED Display. Samsung have said that they aim to have the new flexible OLED technology incorporated into their smartphones by 2012. This will also be followed by incorporation into their tablet systems.
The future of OLED Displays is looking very bright indeed, and it is only a matter of time before all display production is replaced with OLED Dispays.