LG has been pimping a prototype of an 18" OLED display that is flexible enough to roll into a tube that's a mere 3cm across. The screen has a resolution of 1200 x 810 pixels and uses a new type... LG shows off flexible 18-inch OLED screen
New picture Hilbert? OT: Looks like that tech I saw in the film (no pun) Red Planet. In fact, it looks exactly like it...but that was 14 years ago and I was thinking to myself 'yeah right' when I saw it.
My brain still tells me not to bend it, the problem with this stuff, I'm hard wired to know that it'll eventually break from these actions, so I'll keep it straight. Like how even though my Sony Xperia Z1c is waterproof, I still keep it away from water...
Impressive, but what happens when you bend them too far? I feel like the main problem with these displays is if they're going to be for the average consumer, you need something to limit how far it will bend or else everyone is going to break their displays within a few minutes.
Well I don't think the intention of these displays is to just sell them as a flexible screen but to apply them in applications otherwise impossible like wrapping them around a pole in a shopping mall or embedding them into a curved surface of a car. The fit band by Samsung is a good example of something that can be made more comfortable by adding a curved display.
can also look good on a wall.. takes the all flat screen thing to a whole new level oh coffee table too
I remember reading stuff like this when LCD was first introduced. I would kill for an 75" 4K OLED on my wall right now.
nice... Where are my OLED HDTV, LCD/LED have horrid response times and as result terrible blurring and i absolutely hate the fake 120/240 hz they put in the HDTV. OLED is supposed make this issue thing of the past a bring us that much closer to CRT responses time. I been holding off buying new HDTV in hopes of OLED actual be released to the masses. 10 years maybe?
This is pretty great. Industrial designers will find all kinds of neat things to do with this. I'd like to see a monitor with a couple of screens that pop out to the left and right of your main screen that gives an instant triple-monitor setup in one easy-to-transport monitor. And they're flexible so they can be bent into a curve for greater peripheral viewing.
