Sony Unveils Flexible OLED Thinner Than a Hair

Elliot Chang writes "For Sony's newest display, the company decided to throw into the mix ultra-thinness (just 80m or a bit thinner than a human hair) and the energy-saving power of OLEDs. The new prototype is so bendy that it can be wrapped around a pencil while still streaming video!"

Video on akihabaranews

[exhilaration]

You can watch the video on akihabaranews [akihabaranews.com]

Re:Why does it look so horrible?

[ArbitraryDescriptor]

Gizmodo [gizmodo.com] has a video. The 'dead' strips seem to change as it get's bent. It's cool.. but that doesn't seem like a problem easily solved.

Re:80m? Quite a hair.

[Anonymous Coward]

More common is to use 'um' for micron when a mu is not available.

Re:Get over yourself.

[marcansoft]

Sony pulled a stunt FIVE YEARS AGO.

Try last month. They unconditionally (and probably illegally) pulled out a major feature of the PS3 for all PS3 owners.

Re:Get over yourself.

[Lumpy]

Nope. all my panasonic gear has NO sony components in it.

no Sony chips inside. It's one reason why I went Panasonic... they dont use ANY sony parts and are a glass maker on their own as well.

Re:80m? Quite a hair.

[Anonymous Coward]

Fail, micron is a micrometer

Now I wanna know which ones are implemented...

[Benfea]

...and which not. Is there a list somewhere?

• Á (uc A acute)
• é (lc e acute)
• ö (o umlaut)
• ø (o slash)
• (right arrow)
• (for all)
• (empty set)
• (congruent)
• (not equal)
• ± (plus or minus)

Re:Get over yourself.

[advocate_one]

and people are still unsuspectingly installing rootkits using Sony CDs made several years ago... I have a few CDs I have to hold down the left shift key for when loading them just to be doubly sure...

Re:45 Comments and no applications

[Monkeedude1212]

Well, not exactly. A Piece of paper lying flat would require less space than a rolled up piece of paper. A book not only easier to read, but also very space efficient. Considering an Iphone is already small enough to fit in your pocket, why would you make it bulkier by putting it into a scroll?

Making it foldable does double its ability to be stored in spaces of varying dimensions, but its not like making a device designed to play video ROLL up is going to make it any more efficient, unless you have a video player with the 1 to 1000 aspect ratios they had on ancient scrolls. Folding just makes it flexible. (Haha, I made a funny)

Re:Now I wanna know which ones are implemented...

[geezer nerd]

There is a list of defined character entities for HTML here: http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/sgml/entities.html [w3.org] Unfortunately, Slashdot does not seem to accommodate them very well. I tried μ for Greek mu, and that did not work at all.