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Sony Debuts Razor-Thin Flexible Display
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."'"
"Mum, the living room wall has got a dead pixel!"
So the TeleTubbies are coming to a playground near you? Think of the children!
That is all.
..someone introduces a display that is as thin as three razors?
"Believe me!" -- Donald Trump
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
Is that a roll of dimes in your pocket or are you happy to see me?
Remember this is Sony. They're holding up the aperture grill. No one will notice in normal use. Really. They mean it.
Not on your life, my Slashdot friend. Now throw your hands up and rejoice, This bendy screen's your only choice!
"Mum, theres a *huge* hairy hole in the living room wall..."
Ubuntu is an African word meaning 'I can't configure Debian'
If you're 2.5 inches tall and VERY thin. Otherwise, forget about it.
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
What's not to love about a drunk purple alien with a martini glass stuck to its head??
Tesla was a genius. Edison however was a overrated hack who liked to torture puppies.