Samsung Reveals Their Flexible LCD

ozmanjusri writes "Samsung has demonstrated a flexible 7" LCD display made from amorphous silicon on a plastic substrate. The company says the flexible lcd will "open up new possibilities for wearable displays or fashionable displays in the not-so-distant future"

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How about

[Anonymous Coward]

Mapping the flexible LCD to a sphere, and using it to create a globe of the Earth that can display various information? What area of the Earth is currently lit by the rays of the sun? How about viewing weather patterns at selectable regions? Visually simulating the formation of the continents or certain mountain ranges? Or seeing what a region of the Earth looked like 2,000 years ago. Where are today's current events situated?

It seems like you could create an interesting wireless globe for school children with a variety of neat effects that they could hold in their hands and spin around. If the globe was made touch-sensitive you could even add some interactive functionality, like perhaps tooltips for certain areas providing information like languages, religions, populations, and so forth. In essence make the abstract concept of our Earth more tangible for young people.

It could be possible to also load the sphere with information about other planets, or even the sun or moons.

You could also have mostly-seamless displays on cylinders. You neither have to embed them into the construction of the cylinder, or have them protrude in an outward fashion.

Re:Good for pre-shaped screens

[bill_mcgonigle]

Microvision works for this scenario. The DoD is a big 'investor'.