His family's insurance would pay only for a "stubby, " a wooden artificial leg without a bendable knee.
Bendable screens could make technology more wearable (just think of what this could do for the iPod Nano).
If a screen is bendable, it could feasibly move on impact and be less prone to breaking or cracking.
The smallest one, a bendable bounce card, measures 5 inches by 9 inches.
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MC10's conformal electronics platform makes high performance chips and sensors thin and bendable, transforming once rigid devices into truly wearable products.
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This is a large smartphone or small tablet with a bendable screen the user flexes instead of touches to signal commands.
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Stringer demonstrated "Flex OLED, " a thin, bendable, full-color digital video screen.
This technology produces displays that are flexible and bendable.
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Crazy rumors like Samsung shipping a phone with a bendable screen (which never had a chance of being true because the technology is barely out of the prototype stage), of course, proved false.
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While the company is widely believed to have innovative products up its sleeve, many analysts think the next developments that could really disrupt the market like bendable displays or mainstream wearable devices are years away.
Samsung is not the only one with OLED technology, but Samsung is believed to be the most advanced and closest to bringing flexible, bendable and unbreakable OLED screens in mass produced phones and tablets.
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The slick and bendable Nylon 6 melts at 320 degrees celsius, roughly 100 degrees higher than the more common and brittle ABS. The flexible nature of nylon has some obvious advantages, particularly when printing tubing or even an iPhone case.
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"His first bendable knee ... didn't have a certain number or something that would apply, and they refused to pay for it, " said Noah's mother, Nancy Parton, who lives with her son about an hour north of Chattanooga, in Evensville, Tennessee.
The team of Professor Keon Jae Lee from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, KAIST has developed a high performance flexible all-solid-state battery, an essential energy source for flexible displays (see paper in Nano Letters: "Bendable Inorganic Thin-Film Battery for Fully Flexible Electronic Systems").
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