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07-08-2019, 05:52 PM
The device has eight panels and can work in different modes.
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IBM — the world’s largest tech patent holder and one of the most advanced innovation laboratories in the planet — heard some of you like foldable phones and asked someone to hold its beer while it invented this folding smartwatch that can go from watch to phone to full tablet.
If it were some other company I would probably just laugh about this crazy contraption, but we are talking about Big Blue. These people don’t joke around. Even while Apple and Google get all the headlines, IBM has been at the cutting edge of computing tech since the 50s, from the dominant mainframes of the 60s to the first successful AI to the first commercial quantum computer. The company is responsible for some of the most advanced innovations in history and it seems they are not stopping thinking outside of the box.
https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/KnFLkNFW4gsJbhn5n6PfHf-650-80.jpeg
But this patent published by the US Patent and Trademark Office on June 11, 2019, and unearthed by Dutch tech publication Lets Go Digital, may be too much.
The patent, titled Variable display size for an electronic display device, describes a wristband device that looks like a watch. It has a rectangular display in portrait mode with no bezels at all.
https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/LNsTioJbdzM8vH2LMwcsoU-970-80.jpeg
IBM — the world’s largest tech patent holder and one of the most advanced innovation laboratories in the planet — heard some of you like foldable phones and asked someone to hold its beer while it invented this folding smartwatch that can go from watch to phone to full tablet.
If it were some other company I would probably just laugh about this crazy contraption, but we are talking about Big Blue. These people don’t joke around. Even while Apple and Google get all the headlines, IBM has been at the cutting edge of computing tech since the 50s, from the dominant mainframes of the 60s to the first successful AI to the first commercial quantum computer. The company is responsible for some of the most advanced innovations in history and it seems they are not stopping thinking outside of the box.
https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/KnFLkNFW4gsJbhn5n6PfHf-650-80.jpeg
But this patent published by the US Patent and Trademark Office on June 11, 2019, and unearthed by Dutch tech publication Lets Go Digital, may be too much.
The patent, titled Variable display size for an electronic display device, describes a wristband device that looks like a watch. It has a rectangular display in portrait mode with no bezels at all.