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Personal organizer with flexible screen: for designer-label nuts
I cling resolutely to my decade-old Hermes agenda. A tad longer and wider than an iPhone, it comes with a little stick-like pencil that acts as a fastener. It goes everywhere with me, and I'm convinced I'm faster on the draw at organizing my diary than smartphone users. It would take something really special — not even my iPhone has managed it — to give it up.
Designer Alexandre Fourn has come up with a very spanky design for an electronic diary, using flexible OLED and e-paper technology. Closed, it's about the same size as a smartphone. Snap it open and — voila! — your whole life is there in front of you, albeit slimmer and brighter than normal (something I've always aspired to). And then, of course, there's the little Hermes logo in silver that works as a clasp.
My only question to Monsieur Fourn would be: how the jiggins do you update it? As yet, there's no flexible OLED that's also a touchscreen. Perhaps it is meant to be synched from your existing organizer and then merely unfurled and shown off so poor saps like me can hanker after it.
Via Yanko Design
By Dvice Reader at 7:47 PM ON 03/24/09
Whoa, a Hermes agenda's $620? Must be worth keepin'... Although, I still like my Zodiac 2.
Anyway, cool idea, and would be interesting to see applications like this for the OLED tech.
By Richard at 8:02 AM ON 03/25/09
Reminds me of Earth: The final conflict.
I guess Gene Roddenberry had some great ideas which are slowly coming to live.
By Lexomatic at 8:37 AM ON 03/25/09
@Richard: Yes, this concept (not a product!) is like the "global" from GR:EFC (1997), a device with a retractable touchscreen that acted as mobile videophone, GPS, and sometimes tricorder. (For contrast, a first-gen PalmPilot also appeared in the show.) But you probably can't credit the global's design to Gene Roddenberry; apparently the "notes" that inspired the show were extremely minimal.
There have been a few prior proposals to produce such a folding device, once screen technology became feasible; e.g., the 2005 Philips Readius based on the PV-QML5 display module.
By erik at 9:21 AM ON 03/25/09
By SteelFox at 3:33 PM ON 03/25/09
I honestly don't think the design is that great. I mean it looks nice, but it also looks like it totally lacks an interface. Seems like a classic example of functionality being lost in estetics.
By Crossi at 6:18 PM ON 06/20/09
I like the idea.More oled stuff at www.oledgadgets.com
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