HP and ASU Demo Prototype Flexible Display 64
Engadget is reporting that HP and Arizona State University's cooperation has given birth to a new prototype flexible display. Using "self-aligned imprint lithography" (SAIL) the prototype device is easy to manufacture, environmentally friendly, and incredibly resilient. Unfortunately it is still a prototype, so don't expect to see this tech hit the streets for quite a while yet.
Bistable (Score:5, Interesting)
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Video -- Monochrome Display only :/ (Score:4, Interesting)
jdb2
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Finally (Score:2, Funny)
Now I can enjoy my adult entertainment the way I like it... *snuggles*
Re:Finally (Score:4, Funny)
'Snuggle' - I don't think that word means what you think it means.
You might consider posting as an AC with this sort of perversion.
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Blankets are snuggly, and you won't have to worry about rolling over in your sleep and cracking the LCD on your laptop...
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I tried that once, but it had pointy corners.
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What? You must be one of those guys who run directly to the shower or fall asleep. Insensitive clod.
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It sure would be nice to have a scroll-mobile (Score:5, Funny)
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So many possibilities (Score:3, Funny)
Not so fast ... it will come with the warning ... (Score:3, Funny)
If you're young enough not to have ever read such a message, don't worry about it.
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Good thing they're flexible (Score:3, Funny)
Engadget is reporting that HP and Arizona State University's cooperation has given birth to a new prototype flexible display.
Just imagine giving birth to a CRT. Ouch.
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Engadget is reporting that HP and Arizona State University's cooperation has given birth to a new prototype flexible display.
Just imagine giving birth to a CRT. Ouch.
And as usual the father is a SAILor. Those guys ought to take more responsibility.
The problem (Score:5, Funny)
The ink cartridges used to do the lithography only come one-quarter filled.
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The price of that new display will be very low, however they'll get you on the cost of screen refreshes.
Videos here (Score:5, Informative)
Clink [asu.edu]
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It is absolutely perplexing to me that /. would link to an engadget article instead of the university's website. Thanks for the real link!
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They mapped their milestones with photographs & videos:
Clink [asu.edu]
Judging from the demo video, the display is in levels of grey, not in colour :(
And not all that flexible (it would have to be quite large to be rolled). But quite resilient, which is still fairly good compared to what we've got nowadays.
But the question remains... (Score:5, Funny)
Will it blend?
Re:But the question remains... (Score:4, Funny)
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Yeah, because the internet is only used for discreet, reliable military communication. Forget about maps [google.com] and mobile devices [apple.com].
Still needs backlight (Score:1, Informative)
Now if they had this display providing light and being still thin and flexible, then you got the whole package.
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actualy if they did make it completely out of (basicly) clear plastic - i wonder if it would have the same optical effect that plexi glass or lexan does.. where youcan put a beam of light through it and any holes or imperfections cause reflection at 90 degrees.
meaning they could do a roll out display with white LED's at the end of the screen - light would travel through the display untill it hit a colored pixel and refract light out... i do see a color bleading issue with this but would still be a neat way
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You are basically getting to the point of creating a sheet of fiber-optics, if you take it this far. That would be better than a disruption of light. You shoot the light straight out at
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true - but another way of doing it is this,
if you think of how a back light on an LCD works there is one light source that is injected into a peice of glass and there is a reflective layer around all the edges and the back with a polirized layer (usualy 3-4) on the front then the LCD.. the idea being the light will bounce around untill it is at relitivly 90 degree of this the only part that can't be made flexiable is the glass and the LCD .. well this is the LCD .. and it is clear platic.. could it not be
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It looks like this is only the color filtering aspect of a display and not the light source. Still have to hold it up to a flashlight while you try to use it or hang it from your window. In these cases, it would be easier if it were not so flexible.
If it were to be fairly transparent when blanked, it could be permanently affixed to window panes and it wouldn't be an issue. The rest of the time you could use it to have interesting displays on your windows (or just blanking).
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Sales pitch: "Don't like the view out your window, just download the "window saver" display scenes and have your view instantly show the scenery you wished you had. Live in a bad part of town? Now you can have beautiful vistas out every window..."
Wow (Score:2, Funny)
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A little early to be happy? (Score:3, Interesting)
Don't get your hopes up... (Score:1)
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My fiancée works in a research lab where they are creating photoelectric polymers with salmon dna which is oddly enough as good a conductor as copper.
Why would salmon DNA, specifically, would be a better conductor than trout DNA or even snail DNA for that matter ?
(just wondering, the molecules themselves are similar, seen as a whole)
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I hope for your sake that your fiancee does too.
Wat I want (Score:1)
No thanks, unless it's better than *-IPS/AFFS (Score:1)
Nice, but it's no replacement for high-quality laptop screens. Work on those first.