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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!"
The super-flexible display can roll up into a cylinder
Until Sony disables that feature in the firmware.
Really can it be rolled around a pencil?
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Those stripes are probably an artifact from the screen being rolled up. That should be ironed out if/when the screen goes into production.
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.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theatre_in_the_round
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Those stripes are probably an artifact from the screen being rolled up. That should be ironed out if/when the screen goes into production.
So long as you don't have to iron out the screen after you roll it up.
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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 saw similar stripes in early HD displays and then in early OLED displays when i would see prototype footage. I think it's more likely that they are minor problems with the way the screen lights up pixels on a grid. And it should certainly be fixed before production.