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Samsung Reveals Their Flexible LCD 42

Posted by Hemos from the wrap-it-around-me-and-call-me-performance-art dept.
ozmanjusri writes "Samsung has demonstrated a flexible 7" LCD display made from amorphous silicon on a plastic substrate. The company says the flexible lcd will "open up new possibilities for wearable displays or fashionable displays in the not-so-distant future"
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Samsung Reveals Their Flexible LCD

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  • The Emporer's New Clothes (Score:5, Funny)

    by Tzinger ( 550448 ) on Monday November 28, 2005 @08:49AM (#14127853) Homepage
    The possibility of a semi-transparent wearable LCD give all new meaning to the old classic fairy tale. Imagine buying a designer dress and experiencing a power failure!

  • Fashion disaster! (Score:5, Insightful)

    by OK PC ( 857190 ) on Monday November 28, 2005 @08:53AM (#14127874)
    The company says the flexible lcd will "open up new possibilities for wearable displays or fashionable displays in the not-so-distant future"

    Oh god, it'll be worse than the 80's!

  • Long term durability. (Score:1, Insightful)

    by Anonymous Coward
    Long term durability when subjected to repeated flexing will be a huge issue, since any application that needs a flexible display would need it to flex a LOT, like that cool communicator they used in earth: final conflict. Something like that would need to endure at least as many flexings as a current flip phones hinge does.(For those who don't know what that is it was a video-cell phone where to answer you pulled out the screen, which I assume must have rolled up.)

  • electronic paper (Score:5, Insightful)

    by romit_icarus ( 613431 ) on Monday November 28, 2005 @08:57AM (#14127888) Journal
    The big breakthrough for Samsung will come when they are able to mass manufacture displays thin and flexible enough to be used as electronic paper (or digital ink). This will pose a great challenge to the conventional print publishing industry.

    This advancement looks more cosmetic though...

  • Good for pre-shaped screens (Score:5, Insightful)

    by waif69 ( 322360 ) on Monday November 28, 2005 @09:03AM (#14127929) Journal
    This would be best suited for screens that are pre-shaped, such as wrap around goggles for the military. This flexible technology would also be good for immersive video games where the user wears a helmet type assembly. Another good use of this would be for video teleconferencing, the screen would no longer need to be big and in front of the room, but above the speakerphone and everyone in the room could direct their attention to one location regardless of where they were sitting aroung the table. Whew, that was a long sentence.
  • Thank goodness some other country has the common courtesy to use inches instead of that fancy pants metric thing.
  • I am sure this will make its way into sales and marketing people's hands --- which is not necessarily AGT (A Good Thing).

    Consider that there will be a ridiculous amount of these screens placed everywhere possible by advertisers trying to hammer us with even more ads. My guess is this technology will be used primarily to annoy us furthur (in its first applications).
    • why did you write out both agt aaaand A Good Thing? Trying to start a new abbreviation? Like wasting time typing when you're trying to demonstrate a way of not wasting time typing? Excuse me while I cry at the fate of humanity for the 20th time today

  • How about (Score:1, Interesting)

    by Anonymous Coward
    Mapping the flexible LCD to a sphere, and using it to create a globe of the Earth that can display various information? What area of the Earth is currently lit by the rays of the sun? How about viewing weather patterns at selectable regions? Visually simulating the formation of the continents or certain mountain ranges? Or seeing what a region of the Earth looked like 2,000 years ago. Where are today's current events situated?

    It seems like you could create an interesting wireless globe for school children w
  • Now you too can play irritating rap videos that all look alike (even the girls in bikinis drinking overpriced wine are the same) RIGHT ON YOUR GHETTO-ASSED CLOTHES! seriously, doesn't anyone know that when the "stickers=more horsepower" crowd gets wind of this the sh*t is gonna hit the fan?
    • Uhh.. this has already been done.. pimp my ride (or some copycat show) had put lcd's in the side bumpers of a car so that what was playing on the inside would be displayed outside the car. It was in SoCal or somewhere warm.. as that shit wouldn't last till xmas up here in Canada. For those that don't know, the salt trucks would pelt the shit out of it, more then likely breaking the lcd's while the cold would just make them non-functional.

  • the article was short on details (Score:4, Insightful)

    by WhiteDragon ( 4556 ) on Monday November 28, 2005 @10:14AM (#14128401) Homepage Journal
    How flexible is it? The article didn't say. The photo attached to the article didn't even show the screen flexing. It looks like an ordinary flat panel display. What kind of resolution and color depth does it have?
  • I was working underneath a tractor Thursday afternoon and answered a call to see that the LCD was destroyed. This is the first one I've lost this way. My original cell phone was run over by a truck. I could still read the display on that one, but the RF section was broken. I was a half mile from the tower and had no service.

    A flexible LCD would've survived getting caught between me and a rock. Off to the cell store I go!

  • I have long thought that a web tablet would sell well if it was

    a) cheap enough

    b) light enough (i.e. not glass)

    and (more importantly)

    c) flexible and robust enough to han dle being dropped on the floor (i.e. not glass)

    This looks like it could meet that criteria. Please may I have one :-)
  • I want to see them put a layer of this under the ice surface at hockey games. You could see dynamic advertizements, cool goal celebration sequences, or Fox could have a blue dot circle the player with the puck. :p

  • This looks familar to a similar technology called Organic LCDs, which is also used in many of Samsung's technology.
  • Tell me when it's ready for production - i.e. when it's actually used in volume production. Flexible displays have been around forever as vaporware.
    • Nice article, a total of 4 sentences distributed between 4 paragraphs (you do the math). This is not news, just another corporate press release, probably designed to boost stock price or convince some muckity-muck that progress is being made at R&D. move along.
  • Can't wait till X gets some of this stuff put in for Pimp my Ride...
  • As if walking around with a Nike swoosh on my shirt or CK on my pants was enough to promote the companies, now they'll want to show moving commercials on me. F that!

  • Great (Score:1)

    by f0zzy ( 884845 )
    Great, at last we can have convex screens :P
  • With a flexible transparent LCD display, if they can make them big enough, imagine a car windshield with the cluster display, GPS, stereo, etc. working as a heads up display on the windshield itself. I can see BMW getting exited, as well as tow truck drivers with all the distractions.

    Of course, having things like the winamp visualizations all over your dashboard and headliner would be crazy.

    Maybe this might be one step closer to my dream of having LCD touchscreens seamlessly covering the entire area of all

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