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

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

  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. Video by ddgromit · · Score: 5, Informative

    YouTube has a video demonstration of Sony's technology from Japan at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7QbQugXy1A

  4. Re:this looks familiar by Laur · · Score: 5, Informative

    is it just me, or is this really familliar to the e-paper that LG & Philips developed recently?
    E-paper can't display full motion video, its response times are much too low for that sort of thing, but it should have great battery life for mostly static images. This appears to be a "normal" LCD, but thin and flexible, and the videos show it displaying video. Different technologies with different applications, but both very cool.
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  5. 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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