UCLA Develops Stretchable OLED Display 39
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."
Not a stretchable display - a stretchable light (Score:5, 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.
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damn (Score:1)
Aspect ratio? (Score:1)
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Slashdot's choice of titles tells us that this -is- a display. I was confused at first too, but it seems to be just lighting like you said.
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This would be useful for signs, by stitching together different colors. We could get away from those huge hollow signs filed with incandescent tubes, and just plaster *everything* instead with these things...
- Dan.
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"A condom that emits hypnotic patterns that put women into a deeply relaxed state in which they find it difficult to disagree? :)"
It flashes credit card logos?
Good news, even for relatively normal applications (Score:1)
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 "b
Stretchable isn't exactly new but... (Score:2)
Kai's Power Goo [amazon.com] was ahead of its time...
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o-O
Seems a bit early (Score:2)
Cool! (Score:2)
Lab? Who gives a shit? (Score:3)
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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BMO
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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.
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Though it's very small, the original Series 3 Tivo has a OLED on it, and it came out almost 5 years ago (wow).
Please leave your troll with the front secretary (Score:1)
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 [slashdot.org]
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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
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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 var
ohh VideoTights (Score:2)
Can't wait for the homegrown urban superhero to be sporting a set of VideoTights... heh
Predator (Score:3)
So, now maybe adaptive camouflage, like in the movie Predator http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093773/ [imdb.com], is a step closer?
Mask (Score:1)
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.
the future (Score:1)
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.
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It is a 1x1 pixel resolution 1 bit color display with variable aspect ratio.
seriously (Score:2)
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who the fuck has ever wanted to bend and stretch their display. how about making it affordable.
Teletubbies ?
The perfect solution... (Score:2)
This is a perfect solution to when you download a movie and the aspect ratio is wrong. :)