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Sony Debuts Razor-Thin Flexible Display
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Zonk
on Fri May 25, 2007 05:17 PM
from the forget-e-paper dept.
from the forget-e-paper dept.
Mike writes "Sony Corporation has put online a video of their new flexible 2.5 inch display. The display can be bent in half, is full color, and is apparently relatively inexpensive to make. This could be used in hundreds of cool new products, as well as enhancing thousands of existing products. In fact, it's hard to see where this kind of display wouldn't be used, especially in portable consumer electronics. 'The display combines Sony's organic thin film transistor, or TFT, technology, which is required to make flexible displays, with another kind of technology called organic electroluminescent display, it said. The latter technology is not as widespread for gadgets as the two main display technologies now on the market - liquid crystal displays and plasma display panels. Although flat-panel TVs are getting slimmer, a display that's so thin it bends in a human hand marks a breakthrough ... "In the future, it could get wrapped around a lamppost or a person's wrist, even worn as clothing," said Sony spokesman Chisato Kitsukawa. "Perhaps it can be put up like wallpaper."'"
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Lines on the Display? (Score:2, Insightful)
If this is a PR thing for Sony, that's a REALLY bad 1st impression.
Re:Lines on the Display? (Score:4, Funny)
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Re:Lines on the Display? (Score:5, Interesting)
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Re:Lines on the Display? (Score:5, Funny)
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Future (Score:3, Funny)
He's right. I've watched plenty of sci-fi series, and people there are crazy like that. They won't blink and wear their screen as clothing! Insane I tell you.
Re:Future (Score:4, Funny)
So the TeleTubbies are coming to a playground near you? Think of the children!
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Re:Future (Score:4, Funny)
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Re:Future (Score:5, Funny)
Man: Honey, you wanna make love?
Woman: Sure (starts to get naked)
Man: Hey! Let's play roles! Let's put on LCD masks.
Woman: Hmmmmm, okay. But who do you want me to be?
Man: Let's do it Indian poker style. You select my mask, and I select yours, and we'll never know whose face we're wearing.
Woman: K. (Chooses Brad Pitt for him)
Man: *Yum* Ok. (Chooses Angelina Jolie) Hey, can I put bigger boobs on your LCD shirt?
Woman: Only if I can put a strap-on around your hip
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Fantastic! (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:Fantastic! (Score:5, Funny)
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Or better yet... (Score:4, Funny)
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Great (Score:2)
How long until.. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:How long until.. (Score:4, Funny)
Hah! My LCD already has the thinness of fifty-eight razors!
Top that, Sony!
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Video (Score:5, Informative)
Grain of salt time (Score:3, Interesting)
"Vaporware is a software or hardware product which is announced by a developer well in advance of release, but which then fails to emerge, either with or without a protracted development cycle. The term implies unwarranted optimism, or sometimes even deception; that is, it may imply that the announcer knows that product development is in too early a stage to support responsible statements about its completion date, feature set, or even feasibility." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaporware [wikipedia.org]
"sometimes even deception" indeed.
YAY! (Score:5, Insightful)
Every surface can be turned into an advert. Animated no less.
Heads Up (Score:3, Interesting)
Add in some of the "Object detection" systems they've been pawning off for a few years and we're talking about a nice feature for the future of cars.
Fighter Jets as well as commercial airliners can make use of this technology as well.
There's a million uses other then the silly and mundane.
been hearing about these things for years... (Score:3, Insightful)
Same with ink-on-paper displays. Plenty of prototypes exist but for some reason no-one seems able to or wants to make an actual device you can buy.
Re:this looks familiar (Score:5, Informative)
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Re:It sounds like great technology, but... (Score:4, Insightful)
I worry that Sony will patent the technology and then make some more useless-via-DRM-and-proprietary-addons like the Minidisc, Librie, and PS3.
So many innovations...that nobody gets to use.
All they really have to do is sell this at a reasonable rate to PDA and phone manufacturers.
But I think they'll probably just screw it up again.
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Re:It sounds like great technology, but... (Score:4, Funny)
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