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."

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Everything but the power supply ...

[tomhudson]

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!"

Until...

[Vanderhoth]

The super-flexible display can roll up into a cylinder

Until Sony disables that feature in the firmware.

Really? Like maybe a Pencil?

[decipher_saint]

Really can it be rolled around a pencil?

Re:those stripes

[illumastorm]

Those stripes are probably an artifact from the screen being rolled up. That should be ironed out if/when the screen goes into production.

Dude, you ruined my day

[Moraelin]

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.