Plywood works as a display, a printer, a keypad and a projector

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If you ever looked at a slab of plywood and thought, “I’d love a phone that resembled this,” Japan’s KDDI has you in mind. Designed by Hideo Kanbara, the conceptual “Ply” would put a different function in each of its six super-thin layers. On the top one, the display; in the next, a keypad; in [...]

Treo Pro – the real price for his performance ?

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Made official after a couple of hours of speculation a few weeks ago, Palm’s Treo Pro is now ready to roll. Running Windows Mobile 6.1 on a 400MHz CPU, it has 128MB of RAM, 3G, Wifi and Bluetooth, a 320×320 touchscreen display, and GPS. A micro-USB port replaces the thingie hole, meaning no new cables [...]

Sony’s 0.3mm-Thick OLED Display

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With a 960×540 resolution, this panel has very similar specifications to the XEL-1, but it’s just a mere 0.3mm thick. The as-yet-unnamed panel is clearly just proof that they’re able to create such a skinny display, so don’t look for it in Best Buy anytime soon—it’d probably set you back somewhere in the solid five [...]