If you think TV's are flat now, check this out!! Sony paper thin TV!!!
Discussion in 'Tech Hub' started by Negative-Ion, Jun 1, 2007.
TOKYO, Japan (AP) -- In the race for ever-thinner displays for TVs, cell phones and other gadgets, Sony may have developed one to beat them all -- a razor-thin display that bends like paper while showing full-color video.
Sony Corp. released video of the new 2.5-inch display Friday. In it, a hand squeezes a display that is 0.3 millimeters, or 0.01 inch, thick. The display shows color images of a bicyclist stuntman and a picturesque lake.
Although flat-panel TVs are getting slimmer, a display that's so thin it bends in a human hand marks a breakthrough.
Sony said it has yet to decide on commercial products using the technology.
"In the future, it could get wrapped around a lamppost or a person's wrist, even worn as clothing," said Sony spokesman Chisato Kitsukawa. "Perhaps it can be put up like wallpaper."
Very cool. Now all they need to do is make it to where OLEDs last a bit longer, because last time I heard about the tech it had a hard time lasting long enough to meet people's expectations of how long a screen should last.
Maybe that's changed since I last read about it (about a year ago), so if it has, please explain.
OLED is probably still 5 years away from production ready.
when the technology has matured to production stage then they will start building monitors and hooking up inputs too it...as it is right now they are pretty much just feeding boxed signals to them.
Wow. The price on something like that would be astronmical. Man talk about some easy theft.
Although this is amazing...isn't it...a waste of sorts?
why is it a waste? space is limited in cities and apartments and population icreases. so when you make things so small then space is not a cocern since you can put that on your wall as a wallpaper.
Yes, this is amazing, but I bet it costs an arm and a leg.
so did LCDs when they came out and DVD players and basically any new technology...technology does not appear overnight folks...it is developed over years and usually it does cost a ton when it first comes out.
that is wicked, KEEP GOING SONY!!!
its ok that you're jealous.
Great, just when I was finally planning on getting a hdtv . Oh well, this stuff probably won't be available to consumers for a couple years.
That's pretty cool, but I know it would be lost within a few hours if I brought one.
Very cool, everything is getting crazy small.
I heard about this concept years ago, but never seen anything until now, pretty cool.
Just when you're trying to catch up with the latest out there, they come and bring something new for you to kill yourself over for.
The question is, Will it be large enough to be put to practical use or Will it be, he look what i got, lol !! ??
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