Flexible Surfaces – Interfaces of the Future

Published on June 16, 2008 in interface, R&D and user experience. 2 Comments Tags: flicFlex, microsoft, OLED, Sony.

A year ago, before Microsoft Surface, Microsoft created a video suggesting some of the User Interfaces of the future. Some of these are VERY cool:

None though are as cool as OLED flexible surfaces such as these…

FlicFlex:

And Sony’s OLED flexible screens:

John Cotterell

Hi Rick,

The sony and microsoft demos are very impressive.

The middle one is a fake. The image is projected from underneath.

John
http://www.pixelpod.co.uk/blog rickwilliams

Hi John,

Thanks for that. You're right, I believe FlicFlex was primarily an R&D project into how information could be kept on a curling page rather than actually show a working OLED example.

Cheers though and good to hear from you – hope you're well ;o)

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