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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.
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.
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.
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.