The flexible FRAME pad is capable of being a tablet, laptop, AND a desktop - Yanko Design

Information technology'southward been roughly 2 years since the first time we saw a flexible-screen device (or imagined it) and to be honest, we still haven't figured out WHY exactly nosotros need one. The only believable answer seems to exist that mobiles are running into a creative roadblock and flexible phones seem to be the simply way out, but differentiation can't exist the only reason to add a angle screen to a gadget, no?

Designer Hyeong Seop Lee seems to have a pretty incredible use for bending displays. The FRAME is a flexible-gadget designed by Lee that uses OLED engineering to serve many masters… because the FRAME is capable of beingness a tablet, a laptop, and even a desktop! With a flexible spine running right along the eye, the FRAME can be carried around folded much like a laptop. Open it out completely and you've got yourself a pretty large fifteen-inch tablet that'due south great for multi-tasking, browsing, sketching, and watching movies on. Fold the tablet along its flexible spine and one half of the screen immediately turns into a touchscreen keyboard, giving you the ability to use the FRAME as you lot would a laptop. In its laptop mode, you tin practically angle the display in any manner, propping it upwards vertically just similar you would a laptop screen, allowing you lot to alternate between tablet and laptop whenever you want-need.

When you're looking for more firepower, the FRAME has the power of becoming your all-in-1 PC. With a dock that allows it to stand up vertically (while also supplying power to it), the FRAME becomes your very own desktop, allowing you to connect keyboards, mice, hard-drives, thumb-drives and even the occasional SD card to it (it even packs an audio jack), giving you all the benefits of a desktop in a gadget that also possesses all the merits of a laptop and tablet. With USB and HDMI ports on its side, forth with a card-reader and sound jack, the FRAME is a no-holds-barred tablet. Gene in the flexible OLED display and the FRAME becomes a pretty remarkable laptop. Finally add the dock to the mix and the FRAME easily becomes the nearly versatile desktop in the world, allowing y'all to carry your data/work/entertainment with yous, and giving you the sheer joy of having 3 completely different products in one singular design.

This commodity is also an open up-alphabetic character to Samsung, which should clearly take some lessons from Lee's design. Flexible displays are capable of being MUCH more than just a novelty. The FRAME proves it.

Designer: Hyeong Seop Lee