Sony CEO demos flexible OLED technology

Not world's first flexible OLED - one was used as part of the Royal Institution Cristmas Lectures this year (granted it was a simple demo displaying "Royal Institution" on it)

The one they had in that lecture was an OLED sign/light that only displays one (black and white) image. He called it a display but it's not.

What would be the practical uses for a bendy screen.

Originally Posted by Neji
What would be the practical uses for a bendy screen.

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wasnt the best display of this tech done at the opening ceremonies at the Olympics with that Giant scroll that unrolled which was a flexible display.

Originally Posted by ChaosDefinesOrder
Not world's first flexible OLED - one was used as part of the Royal Institution Cristmas Lectures this year (granted it was a simple demo displaying "Royal Institution" on it)

Sony has had the flex OLED for like 3 years now. While this isnt the first it is by far in improvement on Sony's design.

Originally Posted by Veles

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Originally Posted by Neji
What would be the practical uses for a bendy screen.

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Teletubbies say Eh-oh!

Sorry, someone had to do it...

would be awesome for a surround gaming screen.

Would be nice to have the walls of the rooms of your house wallpapered with that stuff -- can change them to any colour you want or have direct video played wherever you want. Nifty!

Originally Posted by HourBeforeDawn
wasnt the best display of this tech done at the opening ceremonies at the Olympics with that Giant scroll that unrolled which was a flexible display.

To my knowledge this was done with multiple linked rear projectors.
quote: "a total of 150 three high-end projection for this work for the Beijing Olympics. Each of the brightness of up to 20,000 ANSI lumens"

But you don't really need flexible OLED to use it as a wallpaper, do you?

Still, as I love new gadgets/technologies: I am excited!

MGS Snake stealth suit anyone?

A monitor curved so that every pixel is exactly the same distance from the pupil in your eye would make for a nice premium product.

Mmm... alienware's curved screen has nothing on this... imagine a 30" curved OLED display. I think I just came a little (though that may have been the reference to squeezing Beyonce a little)....

Originally Posted by aon`aTv.gsus666
But you don't really need flexible OLED to use it as a wallpaper, do you?

Have you ever seen the movie Total Recall? In the first scene the wall looks like wallpaper but with the click of a remote its a TV or scenic view.

Imagine one of these OLEDs with touch screen technology in them.

so much possibilities :D

i love technologies...

Still don't see why it has to be flexible for that. Maybe I'm just ignorant. :|

hmmmm... i wonder how much it will cost as soon as production is at full swing....

that's it! i want the flex oled screens badly!

you could have a screen that rolls up inside a pen

And then watch movies on your pen? ;)

Is this the first? I just came across this website showing flexible display technology from HP and Arizona State University:

http://www.oled-display.net/hp-and-arizona-state-university-demo-flexible-displays

Use a little imagination and you'll realize there are all sorts of uses for this kind of technology. For example cell phones with screens that roll up inside the phone and expand with the push of a button (same for laptops). Or how about electronic wallet photos that automatically change. This could lead to another cycle of "miniturization" of all technologies where displays are a primary component.

Seems to me what's really is lagging behind in the area of portable technology is power. Everything that's portable requires a battery that drains rather quickly. Some sort of technology that allows systems to have long-lived and self-contained power sources would be true leap .

Lets hope we start seeing more extreme revisions of displays like the one in the images below very soon:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v60/Langer/misc/alienware-curved-01.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v60/Langer/misc/alienware-curved-02.jpg

Isn't that a hybrid monitor? DLP tech with OLED tech. It's not a pure OLED monitor.

I'm pretty sure it's just 3x LCDs I'm not sure how the radius was achieved.

Google - "Alienware Curved Display"

I'm lazy, Jesse, so what is the resolution? :p

Don’t get all frothed up quite yet because it’s still only a prototype, but this sweet double-wide curved DLP display with OLED illumination from Alienware will reportedly be available in the second half of ‘08. The curvature of the 2880 x 900 rez screen mimics peripheral vision, and in action the performance seemed pretty flawless to our Crysis-dazzled eyes (official specs report less than .02-millisecond response time).

http://gamersvue.wordpress.com/2008/01/07/curved-dlp-display-with-oled-illumination-from-alienware/

Looking at other angled photos, it's a curved projection TV. woohoo :(