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| Roll Up Your Monitor!  Keith Seffen, along with colleagues at Cambridge University's engineering department, has developed material that can roll up and snap open to form a solid structure. It could be used with the latest electronics to form fold-up computer screens. The team has created an A5-sized mock-up of a screen, which snaps into a roll small enough to carry in a pocket or briefcase. The ability of the technology to unfurl into a solid structure means it has a number of other possible uses. "It could be used to create a fold-up keyboard that you could carry around in your pocket and then open up and type away on," Dr Seffen said. "We've also thought about using it as a form of reusable packaging. Because it can be opened and closed again and again, and is a firm, strong structure when rigid, it could certainly be used for this purpose" The development of the roll-up surface confirms Cambridge's leading role in creating roll-up computer screens. Cambridge Display Technology, based in Cambourne, is behind the development of the electronics needed for flexible computer displays.write your comments about the article :: © 2006 Computing News :: home page |