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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!"
> just 80m or a bit thinner than a human hair
80 meters is a pretty substantial hair.
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I kept telling her that, but she wouldn't fall for it.
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.
Gizmodo has a video. The 'dead' strips seem to change as it get's bent. It's cool.. but that doesn't seem like a problem easily solved.
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.
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.
Proud member of the Weirdo-American community.
They obviously mean microns, but either don't know the abbreviation or accidently left out a .
Not true, we have football fields and libraries of congress as well! He meant to say it is just under 1 football field.
As you can now see, it's Slashdot's fault. Apparently someone is too lazy to update the Unicode whitelist with characters that are actually useful on a tech site.
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.
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.
Tic-Tac-Toe, Global Thermonuclear War, and relationships all have the same winning move.
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!
A slashdotter who didn't build his own computer is like a Jedi who didn't build his own lightsaber.
Seriously,
Sunglasses with HUD, Contact Lenses with onscreen displays, Fingernail Applicques a la Cyberpunk. Subdermal vital signs readout, Passports, Driver's Licenses and Credit Cards with really cool security features.
Every book and magazine you wanted to read ever on a 1 or 2 page Ebook reader way thinner than anything we have now. Yeah, batteries and storage will take up some room. At some point the interface, and charging equipment will be the bottleneck to making smaller system.
Try last month. They unconditionally (and probably illegally) pulled out a major feature of the PS3 for all PS3 owners.
Dont forget our standard unit for fluid flow: hogsheads per acre fortnight.
Nope. all my panasonic gear has NO sony components in it.
no Sony chips inside. It's one reason why I went Panasonic... they dont use ANY sony parts and are a glass maker on their own as well.
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
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?
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 !
**TODO** [X] Steal someone elses sig.
and people are still unsuspectingly installing rootkits using Sony CDs made several years ago... I have a few CDs I have to hold down the left shift key for when loading them just to be doubly sure...
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