Cellphones.<br />The initial race was to make them as compact as possible, but with smartphones, bigger screens were all the rage.<br />Local researchers are looking ahead, as they developed a technology that allows screens to be folded easily and in a way that doesn't affect display quality.<br />Kim Ji-yeon gives us a glimpse of what's to come. <br />How could smartphones look in the future?<br />Perhaps the screen could curl as if made out of paper... making it lighter and easier to carry.<br />That future may be closer than we think.<br />A local research group says it has developed a core technology that could make displays fold easily... by using transparent rubber that has a web of electrodes on the areas that fold.<br />That way the display quality would remain the same when folded, and it would not leave a scratch when unfolded again.<br /><br /><br />"We've placed the electrodes at the bridges connecting the displays so it could increase the elasticity of the folding screens."<br /><br />The expert adds the technology could also help developers to create large displays by connecting smaller screens... without producing blind spots that typically affect larger displays.<br />He says the tech could also be useful in the development of wearable devices.<br />Kim Ji-yeon, Arirang News. <br /><br />
