Israeli researchers Marianna Khorzov and David Andelman from the School of Physics and Astronomy at Tel Aviv University, and Rafi Shikler, from the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Ben Gurion University say that considering current research, in a few years we may have flexible laptops and 1 cm thick TV screens. Well, it would be very interesting to see this.
For this, scientists say that the conventional materials will be replaced and soon we could rely on plastic based transistors and organic light sources. If it sounds strange to you to have plastic based transistors, they also say that these components are easier and cheaper to make. Imagine that!
This was actually a report published in Physics World. Researchers stated that current display technologies are rigid, consume more energy that organic based technology and it may be soon replaced by organic based components, which could bring high changes including in the cost price considering the fact they are cheaper.
“We expect that, for many applications, these materials will gradually replace silicon and metals, and may even make possible entirely new technologies in the field of bionics,” the researchers said.
I personally wait to see how those flexible laptops will look like. If you think about, people try to build rugged laptops, to be as strong as possible, to not be easily damaged and on the other hand people try to make them flexible… O2 deals
I don’t know what’s wrong with me these last days, something makes me publish news from this very interesting part of the world where people test laptops by stepping on them…
Now, lawmakers in Bhutan decided to ban laptops because they fear of people spending time on looking at pictures and playing games! Man, this is whicked!
“The members can be distracted playing games and viewing pictures,” said Nima Tshering, speaker of the assembly.
Yeah, right! My thoughts exactly! Do you guys, have cars? You know, it may be dangerous because people may get run over by one of those cars one of these days, here it happens and we didn’t ban them!
But as Reuters says, these people seem to have banned also smoking (I kind of agree here), electronic gadgets!!! and eating? I can’t give you much info on this lat one, but this thing with laptops being banned suddenly started to not be that important anymore compared to the eating(?) thing!
I must be going out of my mind, really! I agree that rugged laptops have to be strong and withstand all kind of tests, but this Indian company overdid it! Before delivering laptops to students, they decided to test them for how rugged they really are, so they put the laptops on a hard floor and asked people weighting over 80 kilos to walk over them just to test them…
After the “test” is finished, the computers are booted and if everything works fine, then the computer manufacturer is allowed to participate in the price bid! How mad is that?
By the way, the company is a government company that delivers IT service in the Tamil Nadu region.
In the video below, a guy weighting 92 kilograms (or 202.8 pounds) and another weighing 85 kilograms walked over laptop computers from Acer and Dell.
I understand that they want to be sure that these laptops are rugged enough to work in those conditions that they require, but I think there is no reason for which they should test the computers these way. Man, we speak about Dell laptops and about Acer, right? I love Dell laptops, they have a beautiful design and the last thing I would do is to walk all over them just to test them…
“We subject any laptop we purchase, even for our internal use, to the same fire-walk test,” said C. Umashankar, managing director of Elcot. “You do have vendors delivering plastics that are very poor quality.”
Interesting that we speak here about 100,000 cheap laptops, because the government offers a big offer, asking a low price instead. We speak here about cheap laptops, at about $490.
I don’t know what’s wrong with me these last days, something makes me publish news from this very interesting part of the world where people