Ditch those bulky laptop bags and put it in your pocket...
By Gemma Simpson, 25 September 2006 12:45
The metal itself is less than a millimetre thick.
The Cambridge team is currently developing mathematical models to predict how reliably the material will keep its shape and tell us more about the material's limitations.
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1. Lionel A Smith
OK I suppose until the battery catches fire in your pocket!
2. Marc Wilson
So, the scroll is making a comeback?
Wooden ends, with a flexible material in between?
This would sound familiar to any monk from the middle ages, though they'd no doubt consider the animated text to be the work of Satan.
Gives a whole new meaning to "scroll bars".
I don't know that this will entirely replace the laptop, though- typing on a flat screen is a PITA compared to real keyboard. If they could make "memory " materials that would enable a full-travel keyboard to be rolled up, we could be on to something.