This prototype, created by Keith Seffen, a lecturer in structural engineering at the University of Cambridge, holds the main electronic components by wooden strips on the vertical sides of the screen.
The University of Cambridge engineers say that products based on such prototypes could be out in another five years.
The screen rolls into an easy-to-carry size, and there's no need to panic if it's dropped on the floor, Seffen said.
The material shown here is a copper alloy, with its structure distorted to produce either two shapes: a flat screen or tube structure.
Seffen has also developed materials that will hold three shapes and said "we think four shapes are a possibility."
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