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WOW! Sony develops razor-thin TV screen you could wear

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  1. Mr. Mooch

    Mr. Mooch Contributing Member

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    Pretty damn incredible:

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    Razor-thin TV screen you can wear as a T-shirt
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/li...ogy.html?in_article_id=457670&in_page_id=1965

    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-colour video.

    Sony Corporation posted video of the new 2.5 inch display on its' web page.

    In the video, a hand squeezes the 0.3 millimetre (0.01 inch)-thick display, which shows color video of a bicyclist stuntman, a picturesque lake and other images.

    Sony will present the research and video at an academic symposium in Long Beach, California, for the Society for Information Display this week, the Japanese electronics and entertainment company said.

    The display combines Sony's organic thin film transistor, or TFT, technology, which is required to make flexible displays, with another kind of technology called organic electroluminescent display, it said.

    The latter technology is not as widespread for gadgets as the two main display technologies now on the market - liquid crystal displays and plasma display panels.

    Although flat-panel TVs are getting slimmer, a display that's so thin it bends in a human hand marks a breakthrough.

    Sony said plans for a commercial product using the technology were still undecided.

    "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."

    Tatsuo Mori, professor at Nagoya University's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, said some hurdles remained, including making the display bigger, ensuring durability and cutting costs.

    But the display's pliancy is extremely difficult to imitate with LCD and plasma screens, he said.

    "To come up with a flexible screen at that image quality is groundbreaking," Mori said.

    "You can drop it, and it won't break because it's as thin as paper."

    And here's the vid:

    <embed src="http://www.liveleak.com/player.swf" width="450" height="370" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" flashvars="autostart=false&token=a1e_1180120325" scale="showall" name="index"></embed>
     
    #1 Mr. Mooch, May 25, 2007
  2. WWR

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    What is the purpose of that?
     
    #2 WWR, May 25, 2007
  3. MR. MEOWGI

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    sigh.
     
    #3 MR. MEOWGI, May 25, 2007
  4. AntiSonic

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    Told you so!
     
    #4 AntiSonic, May 25, 2007
  5. DaDakota

    DaDakota Balance wins
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    That is FANTASTIC !!!

    So many applications......for that, and the power usage is probably fairly small too......just wow !

    DD
     
    #5 DaDakota, May 25, 2007
  6. Mr. Mooch

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    One would think that it's used in conjunction with the similar bendable batteries/power supplies developed a couple years ago.

    I can't imagine this new technology producing high-res quality picture, but it's still great news for advertisers, marketers, and cell phone companies.
     
    #6 Mr. Mooch, May 25, 2007
  7. Deckard

    Deckard Blade Runner
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    Remember the wall at Arnold's apartment in Total Recall? You could use this stuff as wallpaper. If they get the manufacturing down the uses are limitless.
     
    #7 Deckard, May 25, 2007
  8. Lil Pun

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    Put it in a music video and kids everywhere will be wanting one.
     
    #8 Lil Pun, May 25, 2007
  9. DaDakota

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    That is exactly what I was thinking of when I first saw that...I need to watch that movie again...

    Also Blade Runner-ish......

    Heck just imagine being able to hang them up as rotating pictures throughout the house.....you could have various high res art images or a fish tank on the wall.

    Outstanding.

    DD
     
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  10. Invisible Fan

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    Your shirt could be a cell phone, TV, and PSP2 all rolled into one.
     
    #10 Invisible Fan, May 25, 2007
  11. OldManBernie

    OldManBernie Old Fogey

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    Forgive if I sound a bit Trekkie, but with proper cameras and some powerful processor, you could probably make a crude cloaking suit with this technology.
     
    #11 OldManBernie, May 25, 2007
  12. DonnyMost

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    a tshirt.

    right.

    five hundred and ninety nine US dollars.
     
    #12 DonnyMost, May 25, 2007
  13. theWIGMAN

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    It's OLED technology. Monochrome (usually green) Flexible OLED displays have been around a few years. Still, Sony does get some credit for producing one that's in full color. Nice.

    OLED technology looks promising since the flat panel displays can supposedly be manufactured using an inexpensive ink-jet printing process. This gives OLED the potential to be very competitive vs. PLASMA & even LCD. OLED displays could be lighter, thinner, more energy efficient, and competitively priced.
     
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  14. WWR

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    Sorry, but this redneck sees no use for one.
     
    #14 WWR, May 25, 2007
  15. Xenochimera

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    haha i can watch p*rn while taking a test.
     
    #15 Xenochimera, May 25, 2007
  16. Coach AI

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    Pretty damn cool.

    Of course, this also means we'll have T-shirts with several different company logos - flashing one after another - instead of just one. :)
     
    #16 Coach AI, May 25, 2007
  17. theWIGMAN

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    One possible use would be in portable electronics like laptop computers - for smaller, lightweight laptops with bigger, flexible roll-up screens. The ultimate usage of this technology would be giant, portable, flexible wall-sized displays that you can roll up and down. So OLED has the potential to rival all current display technologies (PLASMA, LCD, rear-projection, and front-projection) .... But .... we'll see.
     
    #17 theWIGMAN, May 25, 2007
  18. pradaxpimp

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    so instead of buying one gucci shirt, u can buy one tv that u can wear. Seems like an equal trade off.
     
    #18 pradaxpimp, May 25, 2007
  19. KingCheetah

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    ...Attack its weak point for MASSIVE damage...
     
    #19 KingCheetah, May 25, 2007
  20. theWIGMAN

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    Better than equal. Your video-shirt can change its look. Gucci can't do that.
     
    #20 theWIGMAN, May 25, 2007
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