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points by dreamcompiler 4 days ago | 0 comments
You know how on a computer screen you can just drag any corner of a window to resize it? I had a dream once where I had a phone that worked that way. Want a bigger screen? Just drag one of the corners of the phone. Shove all the corners together and drop it in your pocket.

I used the hell out of that phone all night. Then I woke up and spent about an hour trying to figure out how to build one. I think I could do it in one dimension (i.e. make the phone wider) by rolling the screen around a tiny roller in the edge of the case, and having the case telescope. But that won't work in two dimensions at once. I never figured out how to do it in two dimensions.

When somebody builds one of these, I'll buy one.

[–] randunel 4 days ago
You might like this concept https://www.thezoomablemap.com/
[–] f33d5173 4 days ago
Could be 4 screens overlapping each other. Pull the corners and the lower screens pull out from below the upper ones. There would be a visible seam at the boundary, but maybe there's a trick you could use to disguise it.
[–] psd1 3 days ago
That provokes a memory! IBM shipped a thinkpad (W700) that had a smaller screen pop out from behind the main screen.

https://i.redd.it/tv8gify0w11c1.png

Your dream phone sounds cooler. Dreaming about phones is probably not "cool", mind ;-)

[–] grishka 3 days ago
This reminded me about phones from the TV show Upload. They are wristbands that project a holographic screen. Feels like a cool concept, and just as impossible to build with current tech, heh