Quote Originally Posted by Big D View Post
A good development, especially when it eventually incorporates a virtual keyboard and a mouse substitute, so it can do absolutely everything a contemporary PC can do. Also, combine these ideas with the flexible plastic screens that are being developed, add an ultra-compact hard-drive, and you've effectively got a completely portable PC. Especially if they make the HD a cylinder - simply wrap the monitor around it like a scroll, and you've got baton-sized practicality...
one of the biggest problems with the flexible screens they are making is longlivity.. because they use chemicals and alkeli metals that degrade in oxigen. The plastic isnt totally air proof, as the molecular spacing just isnt dense enough. Therefore it would degrade in periods ranging from 1 minute to 1 year.

its a lot of trouble.. however, the thin glass models should be on the market soon.