Displays built out of plastic instead of glass would be a gadget lover’s dream: they’d be rugged and lightweight, and they should be inexpensive to make on “roll-to-roll” systems similar to those used for newsprint. But to develop prototypes for flexible tablet computers and other gadgets with plastic displays, the device makers have had to develop custom equipment.
More than any other, This technology has the potential to radically redefine the form factor of portable computing devices.
I salivate every time I read one of these articles.
Wake me up when they get them to the stage of the scroll computers they used in the movie Red Planet http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0199753/
Well, I recall something like a scroll book when the OLED was announced. Don’t remember where in the Net.
So, add to this a biometric identification feature and you have a device that shows the right content only for the right person – will be largely used by “high-tech ninjas” .
That movie really takes a lot of heat. I didn’t think it was all THAT bad.
Agreed, its not like it’s as bad as the 3rd Matrix or the Andromeda Strain remake…
I refused to watch the Andromeda Strain remake.
There was a time when mobile phones had glass displays and plastic cases… Now my mobile phone has a glass case (iPhone4) and possibly in future a plastic display
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Look:
http://www.oled-display.net/flexible-oled
This page explains the technology:
http://www.oled-display.net/how-works-the-oled-technology
but nothing about the lifetime of materials, that was a problem to solve in past. I remember something about “only two years before material degradation” that was a barrier to have devices using this technology. Seeing the quantity of equipment news in their main page we think that probably it is not a problem now.