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In 2000, Toshiba released its vision of what computers could be like in 2005. One idea was a roll-away computer.

A roll-away computer is a computer with a flexible polymer-based display technology, 1 mm thick and weighing around 200 grams.

The first one is the Toshiba DynaSheet that will feature wireless Gigabit Ethernet for LAN environments as well as 4 Mbit/s Bluetooth-V and UMTS-3 connectivity for mobile roaming in most of the countries of the world.

Apparently the DynaSheet is named in homage to the Dynabook, an influential 1970s vision of the future of computers.

Flexible displays started entering the market in 2006 (see electronic paper).

The R&D department of Seiko Epson has demonstrated a flexible active-matrix LCD panel (including the pixel thin film transistors and the peripheral TFT drivers), a flexible active-matrix OLED panel, the world's first flexible 8-bit asynchronous CPU (ACT11)[1] -- which uses the world's first flexible SRAM [2].

University of Tokyo researchers have demonstrated flexible flash memory.[3]

However, the complete roll-away computer still does not exist.

See also

  1. ^ "Introduction of TFT R&D Activities in Seiko Epson Corporation" by Tatsuya Shimoda (2005?)
  2. ^ "Epson Develops the World's First Flexible TFT SRAM" 2005
  3. ^ "Bendy flash memory raises prospect of flexible displays" by Chris Mellor 2009
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