Apple Flexible Display For a Future iPhone, Cool And Cute
Apple even after launching its remarkable iphone 5 doesn’t stop its development in the mobile field A new patent by the Cupertino, Calif. tech powerhouse have been passed. The company has patented a flexible screen technology that could not only allow for curved screens on future devices, but ones that transform to feature physical buttons and actually emit sound as well. The screen type can be bent into concave and convex configurations as seen in the pics above, but their flexibility is about more than aesthetics. For example, specific areas of the screens can be made to vibrate differently, replicating the properties of speaker elements and producing sounds. It can be used with lasers placed underneath to act as microphones, meaning that the entire display could effectively be used to pick up your voice. The most interesting use of the flexible technology is placing tiny actuators underneath the screen that can rise up and bend the surface into physical buttons fo