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of 0led technology that has enabled bright multi—coloured flexible screens. they have ranged from rollout screens from lg that remind me a bit too much of a garage door to some really promising paper—thin demos from a chinese company. but for some reason, it has just taken longer than hoped to get around that final bend. the big challenges with flexible displays are that the same properties of the materials that make them flexible and thin are also the same properties that make them very easy to damage, and so if you were to pull apart a flexible display like you see inside some of these smart phones or laptops, the actual layer that is doing the lighting up is very, very thin. you could perhaps even wrap it around a cocktail stick, it is so thin. but that on its own is not going to survive any kind of real—world environment. at this year's ifa, we saw a permanently curved screen
one of the brilliant things about technology has been how it just keeps on shrinking. we can squeeze more and more power into a smaller and smaller space, and that's why you now have the power of a supercomputer in your pocket. but there is one thing that limits just how small these things can get. the screen. in theory, your mobile device could keep on shrinking and shrinking, but the problem is the screen that is attached to it would have to keep shrinking too. imagine the possibilities if your device could shrink to whatever size and shape you wanted and the screen could just roll out to be whatever size you needed. early prototypes did look hopeful. this is a rollout e—ink display from 2007, not 1975, as the leatherjacket might suggest. but it's the advent
0k, time to talk clothes now, and i'm taking spencer for a wardrobe update. true story — lara is my personal stylist. i give advice, but i'm not to blame for everything you wear. no, but i always do defer to your opinion. seriously, i am someone who thinks a fashion icon is a picture of a suit you click on. well, i have got something here that is also a mix of tailoring and technology. we've been to meet a designer working on a shirt that can charge your phone. so this is one of the cut—offs that you saved, right? yes, exactly. my name is pauline van dongen. this is my studio in arnhem, the netherlands. over the last ten years, i have been exploring the relation between our bodies and the environment through different senses — like the haptic sense, to raise our body awareness, and the audio sense
and the loss of culture and history that comes with that. since the start of the war, unesco says almost 200 historic sites have been damaged. but what can't be saved physically can be saved virtually. over the years, we have looked at different ways of preserving buildings digitally, and now that technology is being used for a very urgent task. as alistair kean has been finding out. across ukraine, hundreds of buildings have stood for years as important cultural sites. but through the war, many have gone from this...to this. their architectural wonders becoming piles of rubble. every day, they destroy something really important in terms of cultural heritage. for example, yesterday,
in my native kharkiv, there were shellings, and today as well, there were shellings of the central area of the city and, as faras i know, some historical monuments and buildings have been damaged. and of course, it is also very important to preserve the heritage and also to tell the next generations about that. now eugene�*s company is helping to get high—powered scanners and training to the right people so they can create these incredibly detailed 3d scans. they hope it can be used at a later date to create exact replicas or in different ways in museums to display the history that has been lost in its physical sense. some of the technology they are using is already in use here at the british museum in london. they use it to scan objects, allowing detailed replicas to be made, or to help the experts to study them further. one of the scanners
from samsung that you can twist, but not bend, and a screen from lg that you could bend orflatten if you decided you didn't like it. coming later this year is the asus zenbook. by day, it's a huge 17—inch touchscreen 0led windows tablet computer with separate keyboard, but by night, it's a 12.5—inch laptop. it comes with a shortcut that lets you pin different windows to different halves or quadrants of the display, and it certainly is eye catching, although i can see myself still using that separate keyboard. i've been watching flexible screen technology unfold, heh, for more than a decade now, and i'm really excited by it, i get it, i get the convenience of getting to have a big screen when you want a big screen and a smaller screen when you want a small one, but right now it is just bit in the middle that still worries me. at the moment, the touch