if anyone was wondering about the thickness of the extra folded device, assuming a base thickness of 0.2 mm, after 5 folds it would reach 6.2 mm thickness, less than an iphone x!
That almost makes it sound like it might be relatively easy to do. But then you realise that if it’s going to have any strength at all in its unfolded state, most of that 0.2mm would have to be a strong outer shell to prevent it from snapping or deforming, which would have the additional constraint of being transparent, and not being damaged by excessive folding. But it also can’t be so strong as to pierce the user’s skin, especially around the edges, otherwise it might literally become a piece of cutting edge technology. It may be done someday, but certainly not in our lifetimes.
@@JontyLevine That's a bit grin prognosis. It's certainly not in the immediate horizon, but technology is advancing fast. Do you think people in the sixties believed we'd walking with hyper-powerful computers in our pockets nowadays? I think technology like this could become feasible in something like fourty to fifty years, well within our lifetimes.
There are legit things just like this being worked on in the R&D departments of Samsung and Apple. Still very early stage stuff but people are putting in the time
you could have other special "paper computers" that are not sceen based and you fold them in different forms like origami and make peripheral devices ...excuse me i need to intergrate that somewhere!
@@therealMiWiMa I think another route you can go down is explore the relationship of advanced technology and loneliness. Much like the robotic seals that you get in Japan, I can perfectly conceive of a world where people would fold up their omnitablet into an animal which walks around with them and can talk to you for companionship. Or you could even have them fold up into watches or lockets
@@Dragonfree97 It would still need to be able to detect radio waves, filter out the zeroes and ones from the noise, uncompress the video signal and send it to every pixel in the screen, not to mention filtering out the signals in all its touch sensors (because these too contain noise), encoding them into radio waves and sending them back to the server. If your smart device is smart enough to do all that by itself, then it may as well have its own operating system and memory. So we don’t need to worry about slimming down the actual 'computer' part of a computer, because… it’s actually not the biggest and bulkiest part of a computer, or at least not anymore. That of course would be the battery, most of which is used to power the screen, and is not likely to get smaller any time soon.
@@JontyLevine well , the key detail here is that the computer doesn't necessarly have to be all in one piece : Telecommunication allows us to access cloud servers and then the same servers can do the calculation needed , the computer handled would be just a screen essentially , so that would be just specialization and essentially would allow these computer to have access and do much more calculation than modern desktop pc without overheating nearly as much , another tecnology that could allow them to work would be : 1)more energy efficient screens , maybe that don't generate glare and therefore can be a lot more dimmer , 2)solid state battery/SMES/graphene capacitors 3)wireless charging becoming so prolific that you can have one in your pocket and charge it from a bigger battery on yourself , or when in the house you just use much more powerful wireless chargers ... In short , i think it's a fairly neat and elegant design that works for a soft sci-fi more focused on the slice of life / character ( kinda like "her" ) 4) maybe very small solar panels on it And it's also halfway plausible ...
I have something like this in my own sci-fi world, which I call a Typer. Its basically a thin, relatively long metal rod which you usually tuck into your sleeve. You can pull out a flexible, transparent screen from this rod which extends to about 1.5 meters long, which can stiffen so it can be supported by its own weight. You can fold this rod to make something similar to a laptop, but you can also break off a piece of any size and make something similar in size to a smartphone instead, which you can reattach without any issue. The rod also functions as a projector and can attach itself to most surfaces. People often have attachments like physical keyboards, because they still prefer that style of typing.
Totally within the foreseeable future. We can get OLED and LCDs onto a foldable surface. Problem is that most materials, even those easy to fold, end up creasing, and very quickly their integrity at regular folding points begins to weaken. So we can totally make this today out of a OLED placed onto a large paper-like surface. But it would be very expensive, and have to be replaced rather quickly, before which a noticeable line would form on the display.
Maybe we don't need adevice that's never worn down by folding: what about a base that's foldable, not by it's material properties, but because of structure and smart engineering, imagine it made out of thosands of little tri-dimentional triangularhinges, imagine 3D-printed cloth, the OLED's arranged in the middle, in a way that's made so that none ever get crushed or interfeere with the base's foldability, and an outer, protective, very cheap, probably bio-degradable, or reusable, ironable, or somehow eco-friendly sheet that's the one to recieve the damage from the folding, It's repairing could be as easy as dismounting it from the device and ironing it with a piece of velum paper. Don't go through the uncrossable forest, go around it.
@@vicenteisaaclopezvaldez2450 I imagine something recyclable instead of biodegradable. Something like a pure aluminium alloy with some other strong simple to recycle metal would do the trick.
Maybe it could be somewhat modular, meaning if you need to use it in multiple sizes at once, you can split it into multiple pieces or down the middle. Perhaps people might combine multiple of them together when hanging out to make even larger screens. Or if you need to set up the screen for presentation, you can split off part of it to use as the keyboard/controls from across the room
If it's as light and strong as you depict it, it could be cool if it could use static electricity to adhere to surfaces too. Just slap it on a wall for a bigscreen tv!
This is a really cool concept - but what about when you need a larger screen? Things like billboards or larger TVs. If the material is really flexible could fassion it into clothes? imagine a dress with a moving pattern on it!
Thinking of a traditional mexican toy called "carterita magica" I thought you could have it be configured to many different types of folding, maybe folding it by 70 degrees every third of it's lenght could have you use it as a triple screen, and making a smart fold by the spot that'd be used as the base could have it not only as a base, but also as a keyboard, or a port. I imagine every one of these devices could have it's port, a small square which's thickness is minor to that of the fully folded device with the most common kinds of ports in it (about 2 or 3), so you could plug it onto an electrical source, or onto an accesory: a small mouse that countains a folded keyboard inside (you may be able to use both accesories wirelessly, or retrieve a cable from the inside of these and plug them into your device that way). Maybe if you're super extra or have a lot of people you can connect them together to make a huge screen. Now that I think of it: the true device could be just the rigid "port", then the screen part could be easily replaced, clamping the port to the new screen, that's where stuff like the camera or the microphone and speaker could be. The port doesn't even have to be that thick, this is sci-fi, it could simply be as thick as a strip of bubblegum, and be as resistant as a black box. Extra notes: Wireless headphones could have the advantage of strapping around your ears, with this liberty the earnobs could be flexible, so you could choose if to have them in your ears of just outside, full headphones could just be pinned to your hair, and if you're bald... I don't know, anti-slip straps?, suction cups?
People don't fold things perfectly, so if I was playing a video game and recieved an urgent call, my computer would look pretty messy, like a newspaper crudely folded over itself several times. It probably wouldn't even look like an equilateral by then.
there is already some folding phones, but it'll need some time before it can reach this level of sophistication and complexity. i would love to own one too, honestly. missed your stuff!
I swear I heard about something along these lines ones. Not with _all_ the folds you describe, but the basic idea of a sort of flexy screen that's more the texture of a heating pad than a modern laptop.
If I'm not mistaken engineers and scientists are looking into origami for future technological developments(?) I vaguely recall a veritasium video on this a while ago. If they can get tungsten to bend and compress, I'm sure there's the possibility of this in the near future.
Love these kind of smaller videos, would love to hear more about the sci-fi graphic novel you're writing, really interested on how you would approach writing a novel/comic. I don't know if it this can help develop more the idea for your future computers but from what i remeber paper can only be folded a certain amount of times(about 7) before requiring huge amount of energy to do it. Also in our world paper is cut using the golden ratio so maybe even in your futuristic world the various devices that you can make out of one piece of "screen" follow always a certain ratio and proportions.
There's something like this in the 1995 novel _The Color of Distance._ The protagonist has a computer that has the consistency of aluminum foil, so she can fold it up, crumple it, or even wrap it around her body if needed.
It would be interesting if the screen could be folded up into various origami models too. I'm sure there would be practical uses to having a cube or a triangular device for example, but I'm not sure there would be much practical use for a paper plane or a crane.
What would be even more interesting is if some ancient precursor made an artificial planet where these devices (among others) literally grew from the ground like crystals, where you could snap it off once it was of size. Then throw some cavemen down onto this planet and see how they adapt to their 'natural world' giving them free technology, and them mistaking it as a non-artificial phenomenon because that's all they knew.
Hi Ewa! I recently found your channel and was binging all of your vids - today is the first time you post after I subbed to you! Hi. Hello. Hey. :) I also have a channel about worldbuilding (though very very different from yours), and I'm loving everything I see here. Somehow I feel your ideas and even the exposition of your ideas is so.... cozy! Thanks for creating those beautiful worlds :D PS. I just finished rewatching Hikaru no Go a couple of weeks ago ;-; so I was very shocked to see it as your screen example here!!! Wanna play online go one day? I feel lonely in my hobby hahahaha
I was rewatching Hikaru no Go for the third time while I made this video, so it ended up making its way in! I can't play go at all though, it's all too deep for me 😂
For some reason seeing someone I’m subbed to commenting on someone else I’m subbed to is very trippy for me. Thanks for all the great vids the both of you!
@@WorldbuildingNotes *Sai's voice:* Hikaru, Go might look complicated, but so does a river or the starry sky. Go is a journey of beauty, of self discovery. The rest is just the rules of a game. Also, what does that machine do? Huh? Huh? Hikaruuu?
I wonder how loose or rigid the computer would be or if that can be adjusted. Also if it's as light as paper, would you also need a paperweight to keep it from getting blown away by a light breeze? I don't see a world where we can fit the computer into that flat of a volume, but I definitely think it's more possible to have the paper screen be more of a projection of the computer rather than the computer itself, and perhaps the processors are in the person's pocket or if it's connected to the cloud or something.
People did not think computers could ever get to smartphone size. The main issue (assuming you fixed folding integrity over time) is the waste heat generated. How hot would the paper get if you were doing something that is very demanding CPUs?
can shrinkage be preformed through squeezing? How bendable? does it get thicker the more you fold? Does it come with an all purpose accessories like stands, mouses, pens? Are there bigger and more specialized units if so what do they look like? How does this affect society and social events? Sorry for the questions honestly it's pretty cool and practical.
How about this, that machine you described but this way: it is the size of a cell phone (or a bit smaller) and it can fold out progressively to about the size of a laptop. You can write on it/interact with it etc, but the real power comes from a holographic interface. The machine can project its visuals and UI into space and you can interact with it in midair. It can stay cell phone size and you can project a big screen from it, or use it like a laptop. Or you can unfold it to the larger size and do the same thing. A special function can be an arm attachment, gauntlet-like, so that you can use the computer from controls (including holographic projections) from that gauntlet, so you wouldn't have to carry about the actual computer, if you didn't want to. That's my dream.
0:50 I would never expect you to put a reference to Hikaru no Go there! Did you watch it? I used to read the manga as a child because they were sold monthly in newsstands, but I never hear anyone talk about it
Lack of haptic feedback when typing would be troublesome. It's not as much of a problem on a phone or tablet, because the keyboard is part of the screen, so you're looking at it anyway, but on a laptop or desktop device, you want to be able to type without looking at your fingers. Still, it would have many uses. I just think I'd want a way to link it to a keyboard.
Being a tech nerd somewhat I have a lot of questions on how this would work. Could you fold it any way you wanted or are there hinges? How would the device deal with heat? Could you buy models with different specs? Would that effect the thickness of the device at all or the way it folds? How would people deal with trying to change from a big screen to a phone if they get a call or have to go somewhere quickly. Is there a quick fold option or some other way to compact it with out have to go through the steps to fold it all the way? I have my own solution to these problems that I have come up with I’m my own version of this tech but if you ever make a sequel or another video on this I would love to see what you come up with!
yeah we actually aren't far away from something like this on at least a smaller scale. I don't think we'll have phones that can unfold into the size of a TV anytime soon, but I think we could easily have phones that unfold into laptops within the next few years. Sure there's stuff like the Galaxy Fold but that just unfolds once into a weird square thing that still isn't even as big as most tablets. But there are some prototype Tri-Fold designs I've had my eyes on for a bit now that I really like. With a Tri-Fold design, you could take a 6x3 inch phone and unfold it into a 6x9 inch tablet, which is actually almost as big as like an ipad for example, while still keeping the folded up form small enough to fit in your pocket easy. Combine that with a case/cover that has one of those built in keyboards and now you have a laptop as well. Or hell if you wanna keep everything all in one, fold up one segment that becomes a 6x3 inch keyboard while the rest is propped up with a kickstand or something to make a 6x6 inch screen. And honestly, those are the only real modes I'd want from a device like this. I don't really need to be able to pick up and carry my TV around, and there will always be a use for Desktop computers of course. But if I could have a phone, tablet, and laptop all in one device I would be golden lol.
well not only the screen would have to be foldable but every component in the computer the cpu ram witch are made out of silicon a crystal and metal witch aren't very foldable so you would have basically reinvent computers to be fold able in fact for semiconductors to work it would have to be a crystal.
"At a fully unfolded state the computer is as big as a sheet of newspaper. It's also just as light and almost just as thin." So Apple products. "But very durable and it does not collapse under its own weight." Huh, I guess not.
Wishlist to the universe: that this exists
if anyone was wondering about the thickness of the extra folded device, assuming a base thickness of 0.2 mm, after 5 folds it would reach 6.2 mm thickness, less than an iphone x!
That almost makes it sound like it might be relatively easy to do. But then you realise that if it’s going to have any strength at all in its unfolded state, most of that 0.2mm would have to be a strong outer shell to prevent it from snapping or deforming, which would have the additional constraint of being transparent, and not being damaged by excessive folding.
But it also can’t be so strong as to pierce the user’s skin, especially around the edges, otherwise it might literally become a piece of cutting edge technology. It may be done someday, but certainly not in our lifetimes.
@@JontyLevine That's a bit grin prognosis. It's certainly not in the immediate horizon, but technology is advancing fast. Do you think people in the sixties believed we'd walking with hyper-powerful computers in our pockets nowadays? I think technology like this could become feasible in something like fourty to fifty years, well within our lifetimes.
Homework can wait for another couple minutes, Worldbuilding Notes just posted!
I love this idea! Unlike holographic displays, this actually sounds convenient.
There are legit things just like this being worked on in the R&D departments of Samsung and Apple. Still very early stage stuff but people are putting in the time
Isn't this technically impossible due to the properties of glass?
@@rodrigonoffs1369, why would it be glass?
@@rodrigonoffs1369 wouldn't necessarily have to be made out of glass. Any sort of transparent material like plastics would work
@@andersonrobotics5608 oh ok. I thought it had to be glass because of lcd
@@andersonrobotics5608 but wouldn't non plastic plastics also break when folded?
This is great but how would I shut my laptop when my mom came into my room?
Imagine you shut down the laptop, the image you were looking up immediately flash up in its tablet form, foiled again...
So how about origami?
JACK FUCKING RACKAM?
you could have other special "paper computers" that are not sceen based
and you fold them in different forms like origami and make peripheral devices
...excuse me i need to intergrate that somewhere!
@@therealMiWiMa I think another route you can go down is explore the relationship of advanced technology and loneliness. Much like the robotic seals that you get in Japan, I can perfectly conceive of a world where people would fold up their omnitablet into an animal which walks around with them and can talk to you for companionship. Or you could even have them fold up into watches or lockets
Seems like a very logical solution to our current trends. Only issue is getting the computer parts that small and efficient
Maybe it is literally just a screen and all the processing is handled elsewhere in a server farm or something. Kinda like how google stadia works
@@Dragonfree97 cloud computing works like that ...
You'd need a glorius internet connection , but it's the future ...
@@Dragonfree97 It would still need to be able to detect radio waves, filter out the zeroes and ones from the noise, uncompress the video signal and send it to every pixel in the screen, not to mention filtering out the signals in all its touch sensors (because these too contain noise), encoding them into radio waves and sending them back to the server. If your smart device is smart enough to do all that by itself, then it may as well have its own operating system and memory. So we don’t need to worry about slimming down the actual 'computer' part of a computer, because… it’s actually not the biggest and bulkiest part of a computer, or at least not anymore. That of course would be the battery, most of which is used to power the screen, and is not likely to get smaller any time soon.
@@JontyLevine well , the key detail here is that the computer doesn't necessarly have to be all in one piece :
Telecommunication allows us to access cloud servers and then the same servers can do the calculation needed , the computer handled would be just a screen essentially , so that would be just specialization and essentially would allow these computer to have access and do much more calculation than modern desktop pc without overheating nearly as much , another tecnology that could allow them to work would be :
1)more energy efficient screens , maybe that don't generate glare and therefore can be a lot more dimmer ,
2)solid state battery/SMES/graphene capacitors
3)wireless charging becoming so prolific that you can have one in your pocket and charge it from a bigger battery on yourself , or when in the house you just use much more powerful wireless chargers ...
In short , i think it's a fairly neat and elegant design that works for a soft sci-fi more focused on the slice of life / character ( kinda like "her" )
4) maybe very small solar panels on it
And it's also halfway plausible ...
You’re telling me capitalism would ever try to sell you only _one_ thing?
I have something like this in my own sci-fi world, which I call a Typer. Its basically a thin, relatively long metal rod which you usually tuck into your sleeve. You can pull out a flexible, transparent screen from this rod which extends to about 1.5 meters long, which can stiffen so it can be supported by its own weight. You can fold this rod to make something similar to a laptop, but you can also break off a piece of any size and make something similar in size to a smartphone instead, which you can reattach without any issue. The rod also functions as a projector and can attach itself to most surfaces.
People often have attachments like physical keyboards, because they still prefer that style of typing.
The irony of showing paper money to explain how expensive paper is! Nice to see you keep within the 7-fold limit, too and nice work as always.
Totally within the foreseeable future. We can get OLED and LCDs onto a foldable surface.
Problem is that most materials, even those easy to fold, end up creasing, and very quickly their integrity at regular folding points begins to weaken. So we can totally make this today out of a OLED placed onto a large paper-like surface. But it would be very expensive, and have to be replaced rather quickly, before which a noticeable line would form on the display.
Maybe we don't need adevice that's never worn down by folding: what about a base that's foldable, not by it's material properties, but because of structure and smart engineering, imagine it made out of thosands of little tri-dimentional triangularhinges, imagine 3D-printed cloth, the OLED's arranged in the middle, in a way that's made so that none ever get crushed or interfeere with the base's foldability, and an outer, protective, very cheap, probably bio-degradable, or reusable, ironable, or somehow eco-friendly sheet that's the one to recieve the damage from the folding, It's repairing could be as easy as dismounting it from the device and ironing it with a piece of velum paper.
Don't go through the uncrossable forest, go around it.
@@vicenteisaaclopezvaldez2450 I imagine something recyclable instead of biodegradable. Something like a pure aluminium alloy with some other strong simple to recycle metal would do the trick.
Maybe it could be somewhat modular, meaning if you need to use it in multiple sizes at once, you can split it into multiple pieces or down the middle.
Perhaps people might combine multiple of them together when hanging out to make even larger screens.
Or if you need to set up the screen for presentation, you can split off part of it to use as the keyboard/controls from across the room
If it's as light and strong as you depict it, it could be cool if it could use static electricity to adhere to surfaces too. Just slap it on a wall for a bigscreen tv!
This is a really cool concept - but what about when you need a larger screen? Things like billboards or larger TVs. If the material is really flexible could fassion it into clothes? imagine a dress with a moving pattern on it!
It’s nice to see a video from you again! I was starting to miss your stuff!
Thinking of a traditional mexican toy called "carterita magica" I thought you could have it be configured to many different types of folding, maybe folding it by 70 degrees every third of it's lenght could have you use it as a triple screen, and making a smart fold by the spot that'd be used as the base could have it not only as a base, but also as a keyboard, or a port. I imagine every one of these devices could have it's port, a small square which's thickness is minor to that of the fully folded device with the most common kinds of ports in it (about 2 or 3), so you could plug it onto an electrical source, or onto an accesory: a small mouse that countains a folded keyboard inside (you may be able to use both accesories wirelessly, or retrieve a cable from the inside of these and plug them into your device that way). Maybe if you're super extra or have a lot of people you can connect them together to make a huge screen.
Now that I think of it: the true device could be just the rigid "port", then the screen part could be easily replaced, clamping the port to the new screen, that's where stuff like the camera or the microphone and speaker could be.
The port doesn't even have to be that thick, this is sci-fi, it could simply be as thick as a strip of bubblegum, and be as resistant as a black box.
Extra notes: Wireless headphones could have the advantage of strapping around your ears, with this liberty the earnobs could be flexible, so you could choose if to have them in your ears of just outside, full headphones could just be pinned to your hair, and if you're bald... I don't know, anti-slip straps?, suction cups?
I'm from México and I was today years old when I found out that toy is called "carterita mágica".
@@JoseLuisGarcia9540
Many things have many names.
People don't fold things perfectly, so if I was playing a video game and recieved an urgent call, my computer would look pretty messy, like a newspaper crudely folded over itself several times. It probably wouldn't even look like an equilateral by then.
For some reason that’s really funny
there is already some folding phones, but it'll need some time before it can reach this level of sophistication and complexity. i would love to own one too, honestly.
missed your stuff!
I swear I heard about something along these lines ones. Not with _all_ the folds you describe, but the basic idea of a sort of flexy screen that's more the texture of a heating pad than a modern laptop.
If I'm not mistaken engineers and scientists are looking into origami for future technological developments(?) I vaguely recall a veritasium video on this a while ago.
If they can get tungsten to bend and compress, I'm sure there's the possibility of this in the near future.
Love these kind of smaller videos, would love to hear more about the sci-fi graphic novel you're writing, really interested on how you would approach writing a novel/comic. I don't know if it this can help develop more the idea for your future computers but from what i remeber paper can only be folded a certain amount of times(about 7) before requiring huge amount of energy to do it. Also in our world paper is cut using the golden ratio so maybe even in your futuristic world the various devices that you can make out of one piece of "screen" follow always a certain ratio and proportions.
this is a very cool concept! i would really love for this to exist, as well
I missed you, and this vid made me feel quite comfortable about the future. Best wishes to you, Ewa!
There's something like this in the 1995 novel _The Color of Distance._ The protagonist has a computer that has the consistency of aluminum foil, so she can fold it up, crumple it, or even wrap it around her body if needed.
It would be interesting if the screen could be folded up into various origami models too. I'm sure there would be practical uses to having a cube or a triangular device for example, but I'm not sure there would be much practical use for a paper plane or a crane.
Maybe certain configurations would activate different capabilities, like an origami bird could function as a drone or something.
Origami tech! Nice. I want this to exist
1. Holy moly I'd want this in my life.
2. Heh, Hikaru no Go. ♥
What would be even more interesting is if some ancient precursor made an artificial planet where these devices (among others) literally grew from the ground like crystals, where you could snap it off once it was of size. Then throw some cavemen down onto this planet and see how they adapt to their 'natural world' giving them free technology, and them mistaking it as a non-artificial phenomenon because that's all they knew.
Would you ever consider doing a video explaining the creature under the river basin?
Hi Ewa! I recently found your channel and was binging all of your vids - today is the first time you post after I subbed to you! Hi. Hello. Hey. :)
I also have a channel about worldbuilding (though very very different from yours), and I'm loving everything I see here. Somehow I feel your ideas and even the exposition of your ideas is so.... cozy!
Thanks for creating those beautiful worlds :D
PS. I just finished rewatching Hikaru no Go a couple of weeks ago ;-; so I was very shocked to see it as your screen example here!!! Wanna play online go one day? I feel lonely in my hobby hahahaha
I was rewatching Hikaru no Go for the third time while I made this video, so it ended up making its way in! I can't play go at all though, it's all too deep for me 😂
For some reason seeing someone I’m subbed to commenting on someone else I’m subbed to is very trippy for me.
Thanks for all the great vids the both of you!
@@disgruntledbob2812 if you're watching channels like Ewa's, I want your youtube recommendations hahah
@@WorldbuildingNotes *Sai's voice:* Hikaru, Go might look complicated, but so does a river or the starry sky. Go is a journey of beauty, of self discovery. The rest is just the rules of a game.
Also, what does that machine do? Huh? Huh? Hikaruuu?
I wonder how loose or rigid the computer would be or if that can be adjusted. Also if it's as light as paper, would you also need a paperweight to keep it from getting blown away by a light breeze?
I don't see a world where we can fit the computer into that flat of a volume, but I definitely think it's more possible to have the paper screen be more of a projection of the computer rather than the computer itself, and perhaps the processors are in the person's pocket or if it's connected to the cloud or something.
People did not think computers could ever get to smartphone size.
The main issue (assuming you fixed folding integrity over time) is the waste heat generated.
How hot would the paper get if you were doing something that is very demanding CPUs?
can shrinkage be preformed through squeezing? How bendable? does it get thicker the more you fold? Does it come with an all purpose accessories like stands, mouses, pens? Are there bigger and more specialized units if so what do they look like? How does this affect society and social events? Sorry for the questions honestly it's pretty cool and practical.
0:49 Just to mention.... Hikaru no Go
How about this, that machine you described but this way: it is the size of a cell phone (or a bit smaller) and it can fold out progressively to about the size of a laptop. You can write on it/interact with it etc, but the real power comes from a holographic interface. The machine can project its visuals and UI into space and you can interact with it in midair. It can stay cell phone size and you can project a big screen from it, or use it like a laptop. Or you can unfold it to the larger size and do the same thing. A special function can be an arm attachment, gauntlet-like, so that you can use the computer from controls (including holographic projections) from that gauntlet, so you wouldn't have to carry about the actual computer, if you didn't want to. That's my dream.
I was just wondering what Ewa was up to! Cool!
0:50 I would never expect you to put a reference to Hikaru no Go there! Did you watch it? I used to read the manga as a child because they were sold monthly in newsstands, but I never hear anyone talk about it
Lack of haptic feedback when typing would be troublesome. It's not as much of a problem on a phone or tablet, because the keyboard is part of the screen, so you're looking at it anyway, but on a laptop or desktop device, you want to be able to type without looking at your fingers.
Still, it would have many uses. I just think I'd want a way to link it to a keyboard.
Being a tech nerd somewhat I have a lot of questions on how this would work. Could you fold it any way you wanted or are there hinges? How would the device deal with heat? Could you buy models with different specs? Would that effect the thickness of the device at all or the way it folds? How would people deal with trying to change from a big screen to a phone if they get a call or have to go somewhere quickly. Is there a quick fold option or some other way to compact it with out have to go through the steps to fold it all the way? I have my own solution to these problems that I have come up with I’m my own version of this tech but if you ever make a sequel or another video on this I would love to see what you come up with!
question question! will we get more conlanging content? i've loved the itlu videos and i was wondering if there would be more :3
I haven't conlanged since the start of 2019, so no, there won't be any more conlanging videos.
@@WorldbuildingNotes that's okay, we love you and your content either way :) so please continue making the things you enjoy
yeah we actually aren't far away from something like this on at least a smaller scale. I don't think we'll have phones that can unfold into the size of a TV anytime soon, but I think we could easily have phones that unfold into laptops within the next few years. Sure there's stuff like the Galaxy Fold but that just unfolds once into a weird square thing that still isn't even as big as most tablets. But there are some prototype Tri-Fold designs I've had my eyes on for a bit now that I really like.
With a Tri-Fold design, you could take a 6x3 inch phone and unfold it into a 6x9 inch tablet, which is actually almost as big as like an ipad for example, while still keeping the folded up form small enough to fit in your pocket easy. Combine that with a case/cover that has one of those built in keyboards and now you have a laptop as well. Or hell if you wanna keep everything all in one, fold up one segment that becomes a 6x3 inch keyboard while the rest is propped up with a kickstand or something to make a 6x6 inch screen.
And honestly, those are the only real modes I'd want from a device like this. I don't really need to be able to pick up and carry my TV around, and there will always be a use for Desktop computers of course. But if I could have a phone, tablet, and laptop all in one device I would be golden lol.
I wonder if it could be rolled, not just folded--it might be a convenient form-factor for storage.
I mean, folding phones are pretty common nowadays three years later, so it won’t be long until this unique prediction is invented!
Sounds like something for me and my family.We own 4 computers (two of which are laptops),4 (functional) phones and a TV
well not only the screen would have to be foldable but every component in the computer the cpu ram witch are made out of silicon a crystal and metal witch aren't very foldable so you would have basically reinvent computers to be fold able in fact for semiconductors to work it would have to be a crystal.
Hi again! Thanks for the video!!
Seems rather cool yet quite infeasible.
this kind of seems a bit inconvenient, imagine being in newspaper mode and you get a call, so you have to fold all the way down
You don't have to fold it if you don't want to.
What’s the betting kids would find a way to snap it out from smallest to largest to hit each other with them?
Sound cool but using a screen as a laptop keyboard doesn't sound nice to me
Apple: *write that down, write that down.*
I'll share this with Tim Cook in tomorrow's meeting
Love it
hyped
Nice
The question is : would it cut like paper ?
"At a fully unfolded state the computer is as big as a sheet of newspaper. It's also just as light and almost just as thin."
So Apple products.
"But very durable and it does not collapse under its own weight."
Huh, I guess not.
I want one.
Samsung needs to pay you methinks
Graphene is the answer.
too bad you can only fold paper 7 times
apple definatly won't build that.
Wow I'm early
i don't think i would want this as i prefer having a real keyboard.
Wow
SECOND BABY
Actually you’re third.
@@felipevasconcelos6736 no, you are
Either way, third is still good.
@@felipevasconcelos6736 He's actually fourth
Took you long enough.
FIRST
Second, actually.
Congrats
Tbh this is less creative than I was hoping. Urbit people are talking about computing on rocks lol.