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UCLA Develops Stretchable OLED Display
cylonlover writes "While there have been some intriguing developments recently in the field of stretchable electronics and flexible OLED displays, one thing we haven't heard much about is stretchable displays. So is it possible to make a screened device in which every part of it could be stretched. The answer could now be yes, with news that researchers from UCLA's Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science have demonstrated a stretchable polymer light-emitting device."
can't wait.
That was one of the worst video demonstrations Ive ever seen.
What about aspect ratio? Won't that be a concern?
It's just a stretchable light source. There's no image. Making a display requires a lot more components and interconnects, which also have to be stretchable.
They expect us to believe this won't be an issue? That's a stretch...
Never say never. Ah!! I did it again!
Nice. Because stretchability is what you need to make bendability work in real life. The tighter the bend, the more the inside compresses and the outside stretches. Also gets worse as you add thickness for durability (unless you keep all stretch-sensitive components in the middle).
So when you add that 1mm thick plastic backing to your flexible display to increase durability, and then it gets creased anyway, this could be the difference betwen a working display and the pile of crap you'd have with today's "bendable" displays.
Kai's Power Goo was ahead of its time...
Do not look into laser with remaining eye.
I know often times small milestones can make news because of the ramifications for future use, but this seems really early to see much of anything useful out of it. They probably should have held on to the press release until they did a more application-oriented proof of concept.
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Now I can make my Rorschach mask...
Peter predicted that you would "deliberately forget" creation 2000 years ago...
Seriously. I've heard all of this stuff that never ever sees the light of day. Stretchable OLEDs? What ever happened to the regular ones that never appeared on the market? What about SEDs?
Fuck it.
Yes, I'm jaded. Call me when you have a product on the market. It's like all these cures for cancer that work in a petri dish, but fail in the real world for the last 40 years.
All this is, is a funding lure. That's all. Trick someone with deep pockets into funding it with semi-plausible results until you run out of money and then start the next "big thing in a lab only" project.
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Can't wait for the homegrown urban superhero to be sporting a set of VideoTights... heh
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So, now maybe adaptive camouflage, like in the movie Predator http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093773/, is a step closer?
Uh, Linux geek since 1999.
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It flashes credit card logos?
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OLED has hit the cell phone market. Samsung has rolled out AMOLED onto some of their phones. The problem with OLED is that it's more expensive than regular LCDs which are a more mature technology. You're too impatient, look to other display tech. We've had LCD tech out for quite some time, but it's only been recently that everyone has thrown out their CRT displays.
Er:
These new Organic Light Emitting Diode (OLED) displays have vibrant color, fantastic contrast, and require no backlight! The screen resolution is 128x128 pixels. The built in controller has many advanced features including various shape structures. Breakout board available below!
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Hell, I am pretty sure one of my old (2004?) mobile phones had a oled display...
Video mask, make a mask of the material that conforms to your face and plays video of whatever, other peoples faces, maybe have a minicam on it and set it to mirror who ever you're talking to.
"If any question why we died, Tell them because our fathers lied."
practically, there's not much difference between an iphone, an ipad, and a low end pc apart from the screen size. whoever can make this work practically to will have the one technology to rule them all.
I have many products containing OLEDs. They're difficult to avoid these days. If you have a cellphone or other device with a tiny screen, it's as likely as not it's OLED and not LCD.
Though it's very small, the original Series 3 Tivo has a OLED on it, and it came out almost 5 years ago (wow).
They haven't developed a stretchable OLED *display*.
The OTHER way to be jaded is TOWARDS the funders. These are people coming up with good ideas, but the capitalist system is failing to develop them.
who the fuck has ever wanted to bend and stretch their display. how about making it affordable.
This is a perfect solution to when you download a movie and the aspect ratio is wrong. :)
Besides the other replies showing you the error of your thinking ... ~900 mins into the future keeps it going.
http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/09/01/0259212/Sony-To-Sell-3D-Head-Mounted-Display
Atlas Shrugged : Thematic Story
We've had OLED TVs. Hell, Sony ended up killing it due to poor sales. Cellphones have OLED screens (though I really wonder - do they really have such poor viewing angles? Every OLED demo one I've seen goes awfully tinted (blue or red) when viewed from the side).
MP3 players have had OLED screens for years as well.
Problem is, well, large OLED screens are expensive. LG was supposed to demo a 37" one at CES a few years ago (cost - over $10K - when a 37"-odd LCD was going under $1K). And Sony's qHD OLED TV was clearanced at $1K, for a 10" screen.
I'm not sure what's going on. The ones on cellphone screens are nice head-on (I've used a coworker's Nexus S), but tilt it to the side a bit and it went all blue-tinted. Some of the in-store demos I've seen are pink or red tint (but nice head on). The Sony TV was really nice (bright and wide viewing angles), so it's not the technology, I don't think...
Of course, the Sony OLED TV also flickered like an old CRT TV (even worse I think) when it displayed white. Bleh.
Congratulations on the trifecta: you lack the facts, perspective and humanity needed to understand the story, yet you've posted anyway. Let's do the blow by blow:
"What ever happened to the regular ones..."
They're on the market now. 4" models are now ubiquitous in cellphones, and Samsung has announced a mainstream, competitively-priced tablet with a 7-inch 720p OLED display.
"It's like all these cures for cancer that work in a petri dish..."
There can be no cure for cancer. Cancer is an umbrella term for a variety of conditions which cause the unwanted growth and proliferation of tissues in the body with deleterious effects. As such there are a wide variety of cures. They start at the petri dish, and they're gradually whittled down to the ones that actually work. As a consequence many "fail in the real world" but an astounding number succeed. Thanks to these treatments, the survival rate for many cancers - not enough, never enough, but many - would make a doctor from the 1970s fall to his knees in awe.
"All this is, is a funding lure..."
So your conclusion, based on facts that are wrong and a perspective on them that could not be more misguided, is that these people must be crooks.
You're an imbecile in two different ways, and you're a dick.
No kidding!!! What do you say at this point?