Rohm's miniscule OLED shown at CEATEC
by Darren Murph 
posted Oct 5th 2007 at 1:01AM
Rohm certainly has a thing for cranking out diminutive devices that elicit attention, and the firm chose CEATEC as the venue to demonstrate its long-awaited full-color OLED that's "smaller than a fingernail." According to a company spokesperson, the 320 x 240 resolution display measures around four- by three-millimeters, is "embedded in a prototype chip and is designed for use in a video-camera viewfinder." Notably, the unit actually requires humans to view it under a microscope in order for it to be clearly seen, and although nothing was said about a commercialization date, it was suggested that Rohm is already working up a similar version with twice the pixels.
Filed under: Digital Cameras, Displays
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Kurian @ Oct 5th 2007 1:43AM
View Finder??
I'm guessing the "Optical" view finder is going to be replaced with this thing.
Reader @ Oct 5th 2007 1:51AM
Can light be shined through it like LCDs, would be kick ass to make a pocket-projector with such a small screen.
zomg0t @ Oct 5th 2007 2:03AM
Twice the pixels? What type of resolution would that be, 452.55 x 339.41? Or would it be four times the pixels? (640 x 480)
Cooper Simpson @ Oct 5th 2007 9:07AM
erm get your maths checked... 2x 240 is 480 not 4x240
sayWha? @ Oct 5th 2007 11:58AM
Cooper, please tell me you're not serious...
ypod @ Oct 5th 2007 2:54AM
A display you can't see with the naked eye. Hmmm...
Gil @ Oct 5th 2007 3:33AM
Predator helmets anyone? :)
jptech @ Oct 5th 2007 3:41AM
just tell me when they finish the 1080p version.
Then I can get a set of HD video glasses.
wicked cool!
Brad @ Oct 5th 2007 2:33PM
Now THIS is something I'd get implanted in my eye socket.
But with my luck it wouldn't honor approved content flags, and so I'd end up not being able to look at anything on TV or the internet anymore. *sigh* you win this round against the Cyborgs, MPAA.