The bizarre Portal smartphone is meant to be worn on your wrist

For the past few years, the standing lazy punchline about wearables has been something about awkwardly strapping a computer or a phone to your body. Finally, a crowdfunding campaign has taken the joke to the next level and made that punchline a reality. San Francisco Bay Area startup Arubixs has designed a flexible screen phablet dubbed “Portal” that slides into a dual-strap arm cradle that extends about halfway up the forearm from the wrist. It seems equal parts brilliant and ridiculous. We’ve seen flexible displays like this for years now — mostly as demonstration models at CES that never make it to market — but this is the first design I’ve seen that’s built entirely around the flexibility of the screen.