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UCLA Develops Stretchable OLED Display

Posted by samzenpus on from the pulled-thin dept.

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."

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  1. Not a stretchable display - a stretchable light by Animats · · Score: 4, Informative

    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.

  2. Lab? Who gives a shit? by bmo · · Score: 2

    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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  3. Predator by mrflash818 · · Score: 2

    So, now maybe adaptive camouflage, like in the movie Predator http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093773/, is a step closer?

     

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