https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlIv7FZw73Q

Bendable screen technology has been on the horizon for a few years now, with a few gadgets here and there popping up with curved screens or edges. Science fiction has been showcasing the idea of a tablet that is basically a thin sheet of bendable touch screen paper. So it only makes sense that companies would start moving in that direction. Lenovo recently showed off two concepts they are working on: a smartphone that will bend around your wrist to become a smart watch, and a tablet that will bend in half to become a phone. The video above is a mash-up of their promo video and the recent announcement they made about this product. I can see interesting applications for both, as well as how some might kind of think these are ho-hum ideas. For example, the slap-wrist watch seems too thin to be a phone for some, and too thick to be a wrist watch for others. But these are new ideas that will probably evolve into other ideas, so something to keep an eye on even if you don’t like these two particular ideas.