FIELD: information technology.
SUBSTANCE: computing device includes: a housing holding a processor accessing a tangible computer readable storage medium; input device communicating with the processor; and a flexible organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display connected to the housing and displaying output information in response to signals from the processor, the display being movable between a collapsed configuration and an extended configuration in which the display is substantially flat and parallelepiped-shaped; wherein the flexible display has at least one shape memory element activated under control of the processor, wherein said at least one shape memory element, upon activation, enables to hold the display in one configuration from the collapsed configuration and the extended configuration, and upon deactivation, hold the display in the other configuration from the collapsed configuration and the extended configuration.
EFFECT: reliably holding a flexible display in one of the states: either in a flat state, thereby preventing the display from inadvertently bending, or in a collapsed state, thereby preventing the display from inadvertently unfolding or bending.
20 cl, 5 dwg
