Forget folding, we’re going rolling
Apple engineers are looking into the feasibility of an iPhone with a rollable screen as well as a foldable iPhone, according to a newly published patent. The display technology could also find uses on iPads and desktop screens as well, the patent suggests.
As found by Patently Apple (via Tom’s Guide), the patent describes “electronic devices with rollable displays” that “may be moved between an unrolled state in which the display is planar and a rolled state in which a rollable portion of the display is rolled up for storage”.
The diagrams accompanying the patent are pretty much as you would expect: a screen that looks like an electronic version of a piece of parchment that’s rolled up at both ends.
