Google Files Patent for a Tearable Screen; A Screen You Can Tear & Rip Apart

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Are you also a fighter like me who fights to have a control? A fight with any of the family members. Over control of the TV remote so that you can watch whatever you want to?

A common story, eh?

Your father wants to watch a News channel, your brother a music channel, while your wife, or sister, she, holy cow, the boring daily soaps! And you, the Holy Spirit, you want to watch the religious things only, a football, for example.

So there seems to be a tug of war with no solution whatsoever!

But what if you could break your TV display into four different screens? And watch whatever channels you want to?
Am I sounding like a sci-fi writer? Well, I am not and whatever I have said in the above para is soon gonna be a reality. How? Great question! Because Google recently has filed a patent application for a tearable screen.

The patent discloses tearable display screens which we can tear-off into multiple portions. And each portion can display same content or different content. Have a look at the patent images below.

In the image-1, the same dog appears on the torn screen. Plus the content adjusted itself. In the image-2, different portions of the images are cut-off and used independently.



The patent mentions detecting a tear in a display using multiple ways. Its shape and size, for example, can be detected by a broken circuit along magnetic fasteners. Other than that, there will be a strain sensor installed in a tearable display which will sense separation of a part of a display.

Moreover, in the future, we are going to have foldable displays which we can roll like a paper. And this technology of Google is surely going to make the things interesting

Just think how awesome it would be to tear your smartphone screen into two parts. You can give the second screen to your friend who wants to watch a video on the YouTube while you want to… ummm, read an informational article on IndianWeb2. Not football every time!

 

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Nitin Balodi is Research Analyst at GreyB Services, a boutique IP research and analytics firm based out at Singapore that combines machine learning and human brains in patent and business analysis.

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Google Files Patent for a Tearable Screen; A Screen You Can Tear & Rip Apart

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Are you also a fighter like me who fights to have a control? A fight with any of the family members. Over control of the TV remote so that you can watch whatever you want to?

A common story, eh?

Your father wants to watch a News channel, your brother a music channel, while your wife, or sister, she, holy cow, the boring daily soaps! And you, the Holy Spirit, you want to watch the religious things only, a football, for example.

So there seems to be a tug of war with no solution whatsoever!

But what if you could break your TV display into four different screens? And watch whatever channels you want to?
Am I sounding like a sci-fi writer? Well, I am not and whatever I have said in the above para is soon gonna be a reality. How? Great question! Because Google recently has filed a patent application for a tearable screen.

The patent discloses tearable display screens which we can tear-off into multiple portions. And each portion can display same content or different content. Have a look at the patent images below.

In the image-1, the same dog appears on the torn screen. Plus the content adjusted itself. In the image-2, different portions of the images are cut-off and used independently.



The patent mentions detecting a tear in a display using multiple ways. Its shape and size, for example, can be detected by a broken circuit along magnetic fasteners. Other than that, there will be a strain sensor installed in a tearable display which will sense separation of a part of a display.

Moreover, in the future, we are going to have foldable displays which we can roll like a paper. And this technology of Google is surely going to make the things interesting

Just think how awesome it would be to tear your smartphone screen into two parts. You can give the second screen to your friend who wants to watch a video on the YouTube while you want to… ummm, read an informational article on IndianWeb2. Not football every time!

 

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Nitin Balodi is Research Analyst at GreyB Services, a boutique IP research and analytics firm based out at Singapore that combines machine learning and human brains in patent and business analysis.

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RePhone kit: World’s First Open Source Modular Phone

What if I tell you that you can now create your own phone? You would consider that I'm crazy but fortunately, this crazy idea could soon become a reality, all thanks to Seeed Studio's RePhone kit.

The RePhone kit helps one to create his/her own phone within a few minutes. The kit provides slim modules, customizable phone enclosures and accessible software to help the users build their dream phones. Open source components like RePhone Core GSM + BLE module or RePhone Core 3G model are also made available, which can even help the user to add cell connection to his/her phone.

To some of you, this modular phone might reminds you of Google’s much-awaited Project Ara modular phone however it is not open source like RePhone.

The kit also comes with 8 more modules, apart from the above stated core modules. – a 5×7 LED board, a NFC board, a GPS board, a 1.54-inch touch screen, an audio board, an Arduino-compatible microcontroller, a GSM breakout board and a basic sensor board.





All these above mentioned modules can be hooked together with a varied choice of connectors like FPC ribbon cable, soldered wires etc.

The kit also offers its customers a rich library for hooking into Arduino IDE, JavaScrip and Lua. It also comes with detailed examples to teach everyone how to develop things in an easy way. They also provide a complete SDK based on Eclipse IDE for C/C++ developers in order to help them work with complex applications.



For those who are not very well versed with programming, the kit comes with an easy drag and drop feature for files for them. One just needs to download them online and put them in their RePhone.

Along with the the RePhone modular smartphone kit, the user also gets a very cool Kraft paper foldable case. The user can make her their own RePhone, call their friends and listen to music. Further, by connecting it to IFTT, one can even setup logic to convert it as an IoT device.