At Lenovo’s huge announcement in San Francisco at the moment, CTO Peter Hortensius launched a brand new bendable display that snaps across the wrist like an old-fashioned slap wristband. It is the corporate’s approach of shifting right into a hinge-much less gadget period.

Youtube star Meghan McCarthy, planted within the viewers, obtained as much as exhibit the brand new know-how. She wrapped a seemingly lively telephone display on to her wrist. There was an audible cracking sound however the display snapped on like a cumbersome bracelet. Subsequent, a folding pill with cat faces. She bent the display in half, pretended to take the versatile display to her ear as if to make a name.

Hortensius then took over to do a fast stroll via of the bendable display know-how. “What else has to bend because the display bends?” he stated. A versatile display wants equally versatile elements together with the battery and the motherboard that have to fold and un-fold together with the display. It is an thrilling innovation, however that is all it’s for now, an revolutionary concept that is not a totally practical product simply but.

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