ishan_rulz Posted May 28, 2010 Share Posted May 28, 2010 Sony today unveiled a prototype OLED display so thin and flexible it can wrap around a pencil-sized cylinder while showing video images in full color. The 4.1-inch screen has a resolution of 432 by 240 pixels, which is similar to that offered by many cell phones, and is approximately micrometers-thick thick (about the width of a human hair). The roll-up OLED display also touts a contrast ratio of 1,000:1 and manages a brightness level of 100 cd/m2. To create such a thin display Sony used a new organic semiconductor material it developed called peri-Xanthenoxanthene (PXX), which is resistant to oxygen, moisture, light, and heat exposure. The new display is also the first flexible organic thin-film transistor (OTFT) that uses something called an integrated flexible gate-driver circuit, allowing Sony to lose the rigid driver IC chips usually found in other types of displays. The video above shows the display being rolled and unrolled around a cylinder 4 millimeters in diameter. Although image quality is not flawless -- in fact some funky horizontal and vertical lines are visible -- it still represents a breakthrough in this area of display research. The technology will be shown off this week at the Society for Information Display 2010 International Symposium in Seattle. Source (with Video) Simplicity is hard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Andavari Posted May 28, 2010 Moderators Share Posted May 28, 2010 The main thing I noticed was the PS3 Gran Turismo 5 movie it was playing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDPower Posted May 29, 2010 Share Posted May 29, 2010 Why would you want to watch anything on a screen that kept rolling up like that all the time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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