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Sony Unveils Flexible OLED Thinner Than a Hair

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the good-at-yoga dept.

Elliot Chang writes "For Sony's newest display, the company decided to throw into the mix ultra-thinness (just 80m or a bit thinner than a human hair) and the energy-saving power of OLEDs. The new prototype is so bendy that it can be wrapped around a pencil while still streaming video!"

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  1. 80m? Quite a hair. by John+Hasler · · Score: 5, Funny

    > just 80m or a bit thinner than a human hair

    80 meters is a pretty substantial hair.

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  2. Flexible gadgets are undeniably sexy, eh? by noidentity · · Score: 5, Funny

    Flexible gadgets are undeniably sexy

    I kept telling her that, but she wouldn't fall for it.

  3. video pencils by gbjbaanb · · Score: 5, Funny

    The new prototype is so bendy that it can be wrapped around a pencil while still streaming video!"

    and to think, in my day we were happy with a plastic woman whose undies floated off when you tipped it up.

    1. Re:video pencils by dubbreak · · Score: 4, Funny

      and to think, in my day we were happy with a plastic woman whose undies floated off when you tipped it up.

      Think of how that can be improved on! Just add an accelerometer and it can cue a video of woman stripping when tipped. Shake the pen and it will skip to a different woman (3 stock woman but you can either have a monthly subscription or purchase individual new penstrip avatars for $0.99 each). Algorithms can determine your preferences and suggest new avatars... etc

      The future is awesome. It can't come quick enough.

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    2. Re:video pencils by Monkeedude1212 · · Score: 5, Funny

      It can't come quick enough.

      I think it just did.

  4. Re:80m? Quite a hair. by Angst+Badger · · Score: 5, Funny

    80 meters is a pretty substantial hair.

    You can't expect much grasp of metric units from Americans. It was bad enough when they used the Imperial system, but nowadays they have only two units of scale: a human hair and the state of Texas. Anything in between is just passed over in embarrassed silence.

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  5. Re:80m? Quite a hair. by Glarimore · · Score: 5, Funny

    They obviously mean microns, but either don't know the abbreviation or accidently left out a .

  6. Re:80m? Quite a hair. by Stickybombs · · Score: 5, Funny

    Not true, we have football fields and libraries of congress as well! He meant to say it is just under 1 football field.

  7. Re:80m? Quite a hair. by oodaloop · · Score: 4, Funny

    or the fact that I didn't properly proofread by one sentence post

    Even more fail would be not proofreading a post commenting on not proofreading.

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  8. Re:That's awesome by Lord+Ender · · Score: 4, Funny

    Well, there are some advantages to distortion. Think the girl in your adult video is a bit too chunky? Just bend the edges of the screen toward you!

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  9. Re:80m? Quite a hair. by Nadaka · · Score: 4, Funny

    Dont forget our standard unit for fluid flow: hogsheads per acre fortnight.

  10. Re:80m? Quite a hair. by Rigrig · · Score: 5, Funny

    Is really that useful? If you whitelist then should also be allowed, along with , and . Before you know it people will be asking for , or even !

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