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New Sony OLED Display Can Roll Into Cylinder
Anarki2004 writes "Sony recently debuted its latest in OLED technology: a 4.1-inch screen that's only 80 microns thick. The super-flexible display can roll up into a cylinder just 4mm in diameter while still showing moving images at 432×240 resolution. Instead of brittle integrated circuit chips, the screen has an on-panel gate-driven circuit — a world first, according to Sony. That innovation would allow everything but the power supply to roll and flex in applications."
Good thing, too - you wouldn't want to roll up the power supply, shove it in your pocket, and have it burst into flames. After all, "It's a SONY!"
is to make flexible/foldable power supplies..
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The super-flexible display can roll up into a cylinder
Until Sony disables that feature in the firmware.
But when are they going to be able to make 40" TV's that are affordable with OLED? (Hell, I thought a few years ago the shtick was that they could print them out so cheaply you would just make a new OLED every so often if anything went wrong with the screen.)
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i'd have a hard time paying for a screen with
that many dead pixels.
Really can it be rolled around a pencil?
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OK so I imagine that the technology doesn't really fit well with touchscreen designs. That's fine though: I want a device like the HTC Evo with a nice sized touchscreen in the portrait orientation but a roll-out OLED in the landscape which would become a widescreen for video. I'm thinking like 3.5" normal 'portrait' screen and a 8" roll-out widescreen... if they can figure out a way to keep it pretty sturdy when rolled out. That'll be a challenge IMHO.
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The super-flexible display can roll up into a cylinder
That'll come in mighty handy for my new "theater in the round" living room design.
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Am I the only person who doesn't care how thin they make these display technologies? In regards to HDTV's, I want it clear, accurate, without lag and cheap. Thin doesn't really matter.
The ultimate cheating device for exams: One AAA battery and some memory inside the pencil, the display wrapped up and a single switch at the top as the input device.
Book with video: Batteries in the hardcover and the screen like a first page where video references can be looked up.
Even just a good old mobile phone display that doesn't crack under deformation is quite nice an application for this.
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We'll see things like bank pens with animation; the battery would just be another flexible plastic layer.
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Bah, just when I was thinking that if it's this thin and flexible, they could put it on a condom and give you the choice of what to display on it (like, say, a $100 bill or a credit card for wives who won't touch anything else of their husband's)... you just have to come and give me the mental image of it bursting into flames.
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I remember when OLED was still in the labs, and every showoff video was touting the fact that they were flexible
So give sony a cookie, its only taken them 10 years to catch up to the future
Reminds me of the Portable PCs they had in the movie Red Planet: http://www.technovelgy.com/graphics/content07/red-planet-map-display.jpg
... it's Sony right? I'm not buying it and I might consider not buying it from anyone else who is required to pay Sony royalties on the invention as well. If Sony was the only company that could make TVs, I would not own a TV. I really hate Sony that much.
Finally we can make an invisibility suit whit this stuff. Just imagine clothes made from this stuff then you could plug some micro cameras on the front and back and then display it on the suite front and back side, you would not be totally invisible but, given the right research and time we could get a pretty good one.
Just imagine soldiers in the sand whit this suit, or in the snow of forest. The perfect camouflage
I'd love to have 3x9" phone with a long edge that could pull out a scrolled up display to a full 8.5x11".
Even cooler would be if the scroll could "telescope" out like a radio antenna before scolling, so a few 3" segments could snap out to 8.5", and scroll out to 11". That extensible scroll could contain an 8.5x11" screen in a 3x3 package. Perhaps even a 0.5" thick package, if the scroll can roll really tight.
A real pocket sized phone with a real fullsized display on demand. Cool!
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I'm fed up with all the baseless hype Sony keep generating around OLED. Sony have been showing various "in the lab" examples of flexible OLED screens for years. Decades even. OLED TV has become the "Duke Nukem Forever" of TV tech.
I'll only pay attention to any more new OLED stories when someone makes home-sized (52 inch+) OLED TVs at affordable prices (i.e. same price as LCDs) actually available for purchase.
I was wondering if I was the only one who remembers (or will admit to having watched) Earth Final Conflict. The only good thing that really came from that show was the communication devices - they pulled the screen from a cellphone sized object to make a reasonably large full-video screen (like pull-down blinds).
The power supply doesn't need to by flexible to solve the old problem of balancing phone/device screen size with overall size when you're not using it.