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Sony Debuts Razor-Thin Flexible Display

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the forget-e-paper dept.

Mike writes "Sony Corporation has put online a video of their new flexible 2.5 inch display. The display can be bent in half, is full color, and is apparently relatively inexpensive to make. This could be used in hundreds of cool new products, as well as enhancing thousands of existing products. In fact, it's hard to see where this kind of display wouldn't be used, especially in portable consumer electronics. 'The display combines Sony's organic thin film transistor, or TFT, technology, which is required to make flexible displays, with another kind of technology called organic electroluminescent display, it said. The latter technology is not as widespread for gadgets as the two main display technologies now on the market - liquid crystal displays and plasma display panels. Although flat-panel TVs are getting slimmer, a display that's so thin it bends in a human hand marks a breakthrough ... "In the future, it could get wrapped around a lamppost or a person's wrist, even worn as clothing," said Sony spokesman Chisato Kitsukawa. "Perhaps it can be put up like wallpaper."'"

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  1. Future by suv4x4 · · Score: 2, Funny

    "In the future, it could get wrapped around a lamppost or a person's wrist, even worn as clothing," said Sony spokesman Chisato Kitsukawa. "Perhaps it can be put up like wallpaper."'"

    He's right. I've watched plenty of sci-fi series, and people there are crazy like that. They won't blink and wear their screen as clothing! Insane I tell you.

    1. Re:Future by frank_adrian314159 · · Score: 3, Funny
      They won't blink and wear their screen as clothing!

      So the TeleTubbies are coming to a playground near you? Think of the children!

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    2. Re:Future by lsllll · · Score: 5, Funny

      I can just hear the conversation in the bedroom:

      Man: Honey, you wanna make love?
      Woman: Sure (starts to get naked)
      Man: Hey! Let's play roles! Let's put on LCD masks.
      Woman: Hmmmmm, okay. But who do you want me to be?
      Man: Let's do it Indian poker style. You select my mask, and I select yours, and we'll never know whose face we're wearing.
      Woman: K. (Chooses Brad Pitt for him)
      Man: *Yum* Ok. (Chooses Angelina Jolie) Hey, can I put bigger boobs on your LCD shirt?
      Woman: Only if I can put a strap-on around your hip

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    3. Re:Future by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      You don't think the beer gut bulge would give you away?

    4. Re:Future by pnewhook · · Score: 3, Funny

      What's not to love about a drunk purple alien with a martini glass stuck to its head??

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  2. It sounds like great technology, but... by HullBreachOnline.com · · Score: 1, Funny

    ...will it explode like other Sony products? The fear of that in itself will cause me to wait for the second generation product.

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    1. Re:It sounds like great technology, but... by meiocyte · · Score: 1, Funny

      Is there a chance the screen could bend?

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    2. Re:It sounds like great technology, but... by EdwinBoyd · · Score: 3, Funny

      Not on your life, my Slashdot friend. Now throw your hands up and rejoice, This bendy screen's your only choice!

  3. Fantastic! by The+Mysterious+X · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Mum, the living room wall has got a dead pixel!"

    1. Re:Fantastic! by Associate · · Score: 2, Funny

      "I'll call your father and have him pick up a pack of spare panels from Walmart on his way home from work."

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    2. Re:Fantastic! by Mattintosh · · Score: 4, Funny

      "I thought I told you never to call me on this wall!"

  4. How long until.. by Cajun+Hell · · Score: 4, Funny

    ..someone introduces a display that is as thin as three razors?

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    1. Re:How long until.. by pla · · Score: 3, Funny

      How long until.. ..someone introduces a display that is as thin as three razors?

      Hah! My LCD already has the thinness of fifty-eight razors!

      Top that, Sony!

    2. Re:How long until.. by windsurfer619 · · Score: 2, Funny

      Top that?! Try my 584 razors-thin CRT, bitches!

    3. Re:How long until.. by I(rispee_I(reme · · Score: 2, Funny

      Whatever you do, Gillette is one step ahead...

    4. Re:How long until.. by Shai-kun · · Score: 2, Funny

      That'd be 580 razors! To be precise, it's really 0.058 kilorazors.

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  5. Re:Lines on the Display? by Scoth · · Score: 3, Funny

    Remember this is Sony. They're holding up the aperture grill. No one will notice in normal use. Really. They mean it.

  6. Re:Razor-thin? by miskatonic+alumnus · · Score: 2, Funny

    Awesome. I've been waiting years for a vorpal monitor.

  7. Or better yet... by xtracto · · Score: 3, Funny

    "Mum, theres a *huge* hairy hole in the living room wall..."

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  8. Re:Lines on the Display? by ColdWetDog · · Score: 5, Funny

    If you're 2.5 inches tall and VERY thin. Otherwise, forget about it.

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  9. Re:Lines on the Display? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    ...damn you!