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Sony Unveils Flexible OLED Thinner Than a Hair
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!"
But when will I be able to buy a reasonable-size and reasonable-price display that uses OLEDs? Lab toys are cute, but real products are sexy.
For a prototype, though, this is pretty smurfing impressive.
Yeah, too many people here don't seem to acknowledge that this is an early prototype. They're acting like Sony's going to start marketing these things as is in a few weeks or something.
It doesn't have to be meant for screens foldable to end user. Just for fab making gadgets.
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I'm sure that this is cool. But...
Sarcasm aside, I refuse to buy any Sony products either. Not because I'm afraid there's a rootkit there, but because Sony Corp. has stated via said rootkit, that they think I'm a criminal, and they don't give a shit if they damage my property.
Given that corporate attitude, the only way I can "punish" them is by refusing to give them my money.
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And aside from the price of minor public outrage, they have paid virtually no price for doing it. (Forgive me if I don't view having to pay each affected customer $7.50 or a voucher for a free song download as a significant punishment.)
You're correct that completely avoiding Sony products is next to impossible, but that's hardly a reason to give up on trying to impose a punishment. Where choice exists, one can choose not to go with Sony.
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You're thinking in the wrong dimension. This is working towards an ebook reader which you can roll up so you can carry it around in your shirt pocket. Back in ancient times, they rolled up parchment so it would take less storage space. Those scrolls got replaced by books with pages because you needed to keep scrolling parchment to continue reading, and it was easier to flip a bunch of pages than to scroll to the section you wanted.
Ebook readers eliminate the need to physically turn pages, and so once again rolling becomes the most space-efficient storage method.
Or to make devices with retracting/rollup screens, that's what I'm really looking forward to.
GIve me a break, people that spew this BS haven't actually used Linux on the PS3.
It was NOT a "major" feature, I was on the YDL forums (the most active PS3 Linux community online) and it was a ghost town.
Quite frankly, PS3 on the Linux was useless, it had 256MB or RAM, less then 200MBs were usable, you could hack it to access GPU memory but it was overall pretty much useless. PPU builds of applications were hard to find, you were stuck without Flash (crappy Gnash work around), and old version of Firefox (no HTML5), and any cheap netbook would run circles around it.
The worst part is after 3 years of Linux on the PS3 nobody made any substantial Cell applications. There was barely any community support. Nobody cared.
All these whiners complaining about he loss of Linux of the PS3; where the hell were you when it was available?
Indeed; they taught me that they were not a reputable company when they put malware on music CDs, and again when they took away functionality from devices their poor customers had purchasd after those customers had bought and paid for those devices. Sony coouldn't be more evil if Satan himself was CEO.
In fact, they're so untrustworthy in my eyes I won't even believe in this breakthrough until the Amazing Randi says it's not an illusion.
Why anyone would give Sony their hard-earned money, especially for computer gear, is beyond my comprehension.
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Quite frankly, PS3 on the Linux was useless
(Assuming you meant Linux on the PS3)
Many, including the US Air Force would beg to differ.
Cellphone = iPhone and no sony chips.
Car = GM and nope, Delphi does not source sony chips. In fact sony does not have any chips for engine management or automotive systems.
Crestron gear - i doubt it. Coffee maker has no chips. Stove, Fridge... not a chance.
Sony really is not a massive chip maker anymore. It's rare to have a sony chip anymore unless it's a specific sony technology or device... Blu Ray players... They have a sony parts...
I will not buy a blu ray player. It's a dumb thing to own IMO. I use an AppleTV and a roku box for my HD movies.
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Well look, if I only have a teaspoon on hand then that's what I measure with.
Honestly, your elitism is quite off-putting. You should be ashamed.