Welcome to the Good Friday edition, or the “no one else is working, so why should I?” edition, as I like to call it. This week blends freak-deaky gadgets that will only add to my neurosis and potential set us all back some major ching. The normal weirdness is here thanks to MS and Amazon and who knows what the heck Archos is thinking. Here is my list: $99 Netbooks with a catch, Microsoft has a confidence problem, Archos goes PMP with one feature: low price, Screens will never be rolled — we need to get over that, and the Kindle 2 lacks a value prop to get Sue to upgrade.

Back at CES, Sony showed off a flexible 2.5-inch OLED screen. Sir Howard Stringer joked that Jay-Z isn’t the only one who could squeeze Beyonce as he flexed the display while it played a Beyonce music video. But what exactly is this technology for? It seems like a cool concept, but what practical applications do flexible OLED screens have? Let’s take a look into the future.