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Flexible, Color OLED Screens For E-Readers

Posted by Soulskill on from the still-waiting-on-a-kindle-killer dept.

nadiskafadi writes "Taiwanese researchers have shown off several flexible display technologies in an endeavor to promote e-readers and e-paper. One of the newest technologies from the Industrial Technology Research Institute was a flexible 4.1-inch color OLED (organic light emitting diode) display, which it claims is for the next era of portable devices."

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  1. Does anyone know... by wizardforce · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Did they ever solve the problem that older, flexible, OLED displays had that caused visual distortion as the OLED display was bent or is this still an issue?

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  2. Re:The problem with an OLED e-reader is the E. by Dan+East · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Yeah, I've always wondered about that. If you go back a mere 130 years, the only sources of emitted light a person would ever see (off the top of my head) were:

    Sun
    Fire
    Stars
    Lightening
    Auroras
    Lightening bugs, etc
    Foxfire, etc
    Fish (or were they too deep then?)

    So everything the human eye ever saw was reflected light. Since the advent of the television, people began watching and focusing on emitted light directly, and computers, cell phones, etc have taken that even further.

    So what, if anything, does that mean to human vision?

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  3. Re:The problem with an OLED e-reader is the E. by camperdave · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Don't forget Humphrey Davies' invention, the incandescent light bulb. It's over 200 years old, or his other invention, the carbon arc lamp, also 200 years old. Although, would the arc lamp be considered lightning?

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