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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?
YouTube has a video demonstration of Sony's technology from Japan at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7QbQugXy1A
The World + dog are announcing displays like this; especially digital paper products. It seems mostly to be premature announcements. Maybe they're trying to freak out the competition ala 'vaporware'.
"Vaporware is a software or hardware product which is announced by a developer well in advance of release, but which then fails to emerge, either with or without a protracted development cycle. The term implies unwarranted optimism, or sometimes even deception; that is, it may imply that the announcer knows that product development is in too early a stage to support responsible statements about its completion date, feature set, or even feasibility." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaporware
"sometimes even deception" indeed.
Remember this is Sony. They're holding up the aperture grill. No one will notice in normal use. Really. They mean it.
The future is here.
Every surface can be turned into an advert. Animated no less.
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Imagine a sheet like this, transparent and plastered on the windshield or in a corner of one. Then it's fed from a GPS computer for map information right in front of you. This would make GPS navigation a little safer.
Add in some of the "Object detection" systems they've been pawning off for a few years and we're talking about a nice feature for the future of cars.
Fighter Jets as well as commercial airliners can make use of this technology as well.
There's a million uses other then the silly and mundane.
When you lose something irreplaceable, you don't mourn for the thing you lost, you mourn for yourself. - Harpo Marx
My worry is something like that.
I worry that Sony will patent the technology and then make some more useless-via-DRM-and-proprietary-addons like the Minidisc, Librie, and PS3.
So many innovations...that nobody gets to use.
All they really have to do is sell this at a reasonable rate to PDA and phone manufacturers.
But I think they'll probably just screw it up again.
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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'
In the late 90s I used a Trinitron monitor. I always thought it was great until some jerk complained about those two wires on usenet. It was almost as if reading his words made the lines appear. Before, I had never noticed them. Afterwards, they bugged me.
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.