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Roll-Up Monitors A Step Closer To Reality

Posted by timothy on from the working-toward-the-veldt dept.

gwernol writes "CNN are covering the merger of two of the leading companies in the field of OLEDs. This brings the dream of flexible plastic monitors and TVs a step closer to fruition. You can find out more at Cambridge Display Technology who have acquired Opsys. CDT's technology paper on light emitting polymers (in the Research & Technology section of their site) is interesting reading."

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  1. Sweet! by Mysticalfruit · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I can't wait until this stuff can be put like wall paper and connected to the house backbone. Just a quick calibration so it can map images to it properly and presto. Just imagine all the cool stuff you could do with it. I still think having a camera pointed at the sky out in the middle of the pacific so you could have a truely starry night on your ceiling would be amazing!

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  2. Finally! by johnalex · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I can't believe this - my 3rd post to /. in one day. Must be a slow Monday...

    Back in 1994, I attended a demo of the newest Apple hardware: the PowerMac 6100, 7100, and 8100. Those PowerPC 601 processors just blew me away! :-)

    As part of the demo, the Apple guys showed us a video of upcoming technology, including a computer that folded like a book. The computer used an "avatar" that the user controlled by speaking naturally, as if to a person.

    The Apple guys then asked us what was the missing link preventing anyone from producing the contraption. The answer: "folding glass." Of course, we know now (and probably did then, just we didn't want to admit it) that the CPU's and graphics processors of the time would have choked on the OS needed to pull off the magic.

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    1. Re:Finally! by phillymjs · · Score: 5, Interesting

      As part of the demo, the Apple guys showed us a video of upcoming technology, including a computer that folded like a book. The computer used an "avatar" that the user controlled by speaking naturally, as if to a person.

      Ah, that would be "Knowledge Navigator," John Sculley's attempt at being a visionary. KN was what he wanted the Newton to eventually become. The video was originally made in the late 80's-- now it's almost 20 years later, and we're still quite a bit away from a device that can do what KN is capable of.

      ~Philly

  3. Re:How soon? by saider · · Score: 5, Interesting

    How soon before Tommy Hilfiger makes a shirt that has a spinning or flaming logo on it?

    How long before Tommy lets you download your own images to the shirt?

    How soon before that system is cracked and you're walking down the street with a picture of a guy f%^king a chicken on your back?

    It should be an interesting ride on the subway in a few years.

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  4. Re:These OLEDs technologies are pretty promising by verch · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The article has pretty much 0 content, but I suspect this is an important step because one combined company with no cash struggling to survive while developing a product that is really far off can last twice as long as two seperate ones. Maybe even long enough to see the product come to fruition, or more likely long enough for some major electronic component maker to buy them and really bring the products mainstream.