这是全球首款可戴手腕上的弯曲手机？如果是电子纸屏，那就太糟了

北京时间5月24日消息，据外媒报道，位于重庆的墨希科技公司表示，将在2016年出货10万台这样的手机。该机非常独特，能够弯曲成手镯状并戴在手腕上，每部售价人民币5000元（约合765美元）。即使处于蜷缩状态，其触控屏也能使用。

大幅度弯曲毫无压力

眼下，这款设备尚只有黑白屏版，彩屏版预计将于2018年上市。尽管如此，这已经足够墨希科技炫耀的了，毕竟它可是全球首家发布可弯曲手机的公司。

墨希科技执行副总裁说：“黑白屏手机更容易制造，彩屏机耗电量要比黑白款高的多。我们的手机在中国销售，如果海外市场也有需求，我们会考虑的。”

墨希科技的手机

墨希手机的屏幕基于石墨烯技术，其碳原子以一种特别的模式排列，这使屏幕传导性更好，更有弹性。与普通手机将部件散布于屏幕下方的各个部分不同，墨希科技将电池、处理器以及其他部件全部挤在手机的一端。这让其屏幕能够弯曲成近乎圆形。不过问题是，这样的屏幕能有多好呢？

Human Media Lab主管Roel Vertegaal说：“如果他们使用的是可弯曲电子墨水屏，那可就太糟了，这是目前我们能够使用的唯一一种可弯曲技术，但是其色彩显示很糟糕，对比度也很糟糕，而且还不能播放视频。”

墨希科技执行副总裁表示，这款手机确实是基于电子墨水技术，不过它要比此前所见的技术都更好，因此它使用了更好的触控屏功能。

在2015年8月份，小C君即报道过美国Polyera公司正在研制用Eink电子纸制作的手腕带式显示器，目前计划2016年中推出市场，取名为Wove™ Band。

You can roll up this screen like a yoga mat

Shortly after the iPhone 6 hit the market last year, Apple had to answer to reports that its new phone was bending by mistake. The fuss soon died down. But technology thatallows phones and tablets to bend -- by design -- is taking its first step sinto the market.

Chicago startup Polyera has spent 10 years making screens that don't just curve -- it's producing displays that you can twist, bend and roll up like a yoga mat.

Getting the surface screen itself to bend isn't actually the biggest challenge. The hardest part is getting the layers of electronics behind the screen, like the transistors, to contort.

"The majority of electronic devices we surround ourselves with are what I call'rigid bricks,'" said Polyera's founder and CEO, Phil Inagaki. "And what I thought was that if we could allow these to be softer (and) more flexible, it would allow for all sorts of new experiences and devices to be created."

Makers of wearable devices are the first that Polyera believes will embrace truly bendable technology. To prove its concept, Polyera is developing its own"Wove Band," a long, rectangular display that you can curve around your wrist like a snap bracelet.

The proto type Wove Band feels as much a wearable as it does a fashion statement. The band uses such a low amount of energy that even when you're not interacting with the screen, it can display artsy patterns or designs. The band uses black and whitee-ink from Taiwan, as opposed to a colorful display which would consume more power.

Tap the Wove Band with your finger and you can change the screen to display weather forecasts, headlines or email. The company envisions its own system of apps and services, similar to iOS or Android, to provide content for the product, which is slated for release in 2016.

Even if the Wove Band doesn't take off, the technology is promising. The flexible display market is expected to be worth nearly $4 billion by 2020, according to analysis from MarketsandMarkets.

Polyera is one of a wave of startups, universities and even the U.S. military that are investing billions of dollars in the research and development of flexible screens.

Companies like Samsung have already taken the first leap by manufacturing phones with screens that wrap around the device from the front to the sides. LG even has its bendable "Flex" phones, which are nearly curved to the shape ofyour head.

Apple already received a patent for a "flexible electronic device"earlier this year. The filing showed two dozen drawings of how a device could be warped.

Whatever progress companies like Polyera make, Apple and Samsung will undoubtedly be keeping a close eye out. What was once an accident -- #BendGate -- is likely to someday be a key product feature.

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