14 DAY TRIAL // Nuno Teixeira's curved iMac really turned some heads at the beginning of March, this year, when we became acquainted to it via trendhunter.com. The mock-ups looked superb (they still do), but had little chance of materializing. "Had," as iSuppli senior analyst Jennifer Colegrove sees it happening, but more in the form of flexible active-matrix displays.
In iSuppli's opinion, 2008 is the year when flexible displays are to take off, as gaming equipment, LCD monitors that wrap around a user's eyes (or the user itself), e-readers, e-paper, signage, electronic display cards, electronic shelf labels, automotive screens, mobile phones of course, and let's not forget clothes and other wearable accessories.
"The flexible display market is at the beginning of its lifecycle. Starting this year flexible displays will provide consumers with innovative and fascinating products. For display suppliers, the advent of flexible AM technology will provide a viable, long-term revenue stream for a product that will be in high demand," said Jennifer Colegrove, senior analyst with iSuppli, according to computerworld.com.
As revealed by trendhunter.com a while ago, the Curved iMac is a mock-up by designer Nuno Texeira. In the web site's opinion, "it looks simple but impossibly elegant." We couldn't agree more.
"Designer Nuno Teixeira believes every computer should be two faced and with more curves," said Yanko Design at the time. "Taking a cue from the 1950's CINERAMA wrap-around movie theatre screens, this iMac iMock-up features a giant curved screen(for better orientation to the natural curvature of the human eye) and a second built in LCD screen on the back."
Indeed, the concept does aid the orientation to the natural curvature of the human eye and we've known this since the '50s. So, it's only a matter of time before someone decides to put the concept to good use, along with the introduction of the latest technological achievements. Who else if not Apple would deliver such equipment to the mass market? After all, they're the guys behind the iPod.