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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. But when? by michael_cain · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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.

  2. Re:Why does it look so horrible? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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.

  3. Re:45 Comments and no applications by Solandri · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Every book and magazine you wanted to read ever on a 1 or 2 page Ebook reader way thinner than anything we have now.

    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.

  4. Re:That's awesome by Garble+Snarky · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Or to make devices with retracting/rollup screens, that's what I'm really looking forward to.

  5. Re:Get over yourself. by doctor_no · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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?