Wafer-thin: Samsung's OLED laptop prototype

(Credit: Samsung)

This picture of a Samsung OLED laptop prototype raises more questions than it answers. Just how thin and light is it? Is touch-typing possible on that keyboard? Where's the mouse pad? What's that panel behind the display? Why is the woman pictured on the display checking her pulse? When can I have one?

What a translated-from-the Korean Samsung page does reveal is that it's an AMOLED (active matrix organic light-emitting diode) laptop prototype that Samsung's display division developed for the Society for Information Display's gathering in Los Angeles next week. According to Samsung, the prototype features a 12.1-inch screen with a 1,280x768 resolution. Perhaps we'll be able to glean more information next week when the display scientists, engineers, and manufacturers get together. As for when we might see this product on store shelves, Samsung has previously stated it'll start rolling out OLED TVs, monitors, and laptops in 2009.

(Via Engadget)

[robertorosco]

It looks like a really expensive trapper keeper, or just a trapper keeper. The keyboard below is too small to completely cover that screen when closed, so that other flap must be there to cover it completely.

[Michael too]

The flap may well be it cover, but it is also a support. It looks like it would fall over without the flap because the display looks larger/heavier than the keyboard. Every time you take your hands off the keys it would fall backwards.

Notice how the top is actually resting on the 'tent' formed by the display and the flap.

Michael

[engnr--chik]

Maybe the "flap" has an optical drive, usb ports, etc?? Maybe the entire entire keyboard is the mousepad ?? Can OLEDs be used as touch screens - maybe it's a tablet? More info please!

[tech lover]

that is bull ****!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! take a look at the MBA for some real design work

[highlander2000]

Why is she checking her pulse

[visionary1200]

This is probably CGI. . . look at the reflection of the keyboard and compare it to the screen. The screen doesn't look realistic either!

[dealerovski]

Maybe its controlled by our minds rather then traditional mousepad ?