Sony's 3.5- and 11-inch OLEDs are just 0.008- and 0.012-inches thin
By Thomas Ricker 
posted Apr 16th 2008 6:57AM
posted Apr 16th 2008 6:57AM
Update: Oh my... we just noticed that Sony's also showing off a 0.3-mm thin, 11-inch OLED with 960 x 540 pixel resolution. That's 10x slimmer than Sony's XEL-1 OLED TV. See it pictured after the break.
that's too thin
naughty!
Kate Moss?
This one will blend
How long until customers start cutting themselves on these ultra thin screens?
next step ... transparency !
if the 3.5" isn't the screen in the next iphone, I'm going to jump off a bridge.
Uh, oh. Slight breeze.
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Lost my screen.
That's the truly ironic part. No matter how thin the screen is, the base (tv tuner, inputs, power converter) are going to be the same size as always. Beautiful screen though. Great for like a super-slim cell phone (since they don't have tuners or all that many inputs). Or let's put these things inside playing cards to have a small video loop of the person on the card......
All sorts of possibilities. Interactive cereal boxes here we come!
The screen is the only part that can't be adjusted in length and width. Everything else in a TV is malleable in a manner of speaking.
Holy crap. That's thin.
How much does it weigh?
Thats wat she said ! :P
think you just pwned yourself, chimes
yea, that didn't work out. Next time, in before sticky
Thats unbelivable
someone slap me thats just too thin
how long before they go into mass production because i must have one before i die ( roughly 80 years left in my life but hey s--t happens when you're not ready)
You can predict when you will die? I'd buy into that!
80 years left in your life? What are you 5?
I don't know about you but I don't plan on ever dying. Modern Science will keep my alive for an eternity!
just one eternity?
How many do you need?
I'm sure modern science will find a way to create more eternities.
Yes but whats all this obsession with thinness teaching teenage girls eh?!
sony phones are really gonna leap samsung in terms of their thinness .
Yea they will soon be 0.54mm thinner. I cant wait.
Nope, Samsung already makes OLED displays. See the iRiver Clix 2 and the Nokia phone.
Samsung spent 1/2 billion dollars on a new plant. Sony will be spending more too.
Check out Universal Display Corporation (ticker PANL). They're the ones that have the IP on phosphorescent OLEDS.
Me thinks gadgets are hotter and more reliable than girls :D
Saddest. Post. Ever.
Worst! Punctuation? Ever;
Gadamn cekaay, I hope that's just your nerdgasm talking.
To put it into perspective on how thin these displays are, hold up two sheets of 20lb, 75 g/m^2 copy paper.
Yes, is that thin. The larger display is three sheets.
is that a freaking manticore for your user icon?
The power savings and space savings provided by this is really gonna push the next generation of cell phones (and UMPCs in the case of the 11 in.).
The resolution still low. They need to improve it for next gen displays
C'mon Sony, We are with you, bring 'em more
Somebody wake me up when they get to 52 inches.
0.012 inches?!?
Fatty.
I hope this comes into the next generation of PSPs! (Which hopefully come without UMD, then there'd be super-long battery life... and yes, I already homebrewed mine so I don't use UMDs anyway)
Next generation eh, I guess sony won't be releasing a new PSP for 5 years then.
It looks like Sony's about to own the OLED space.
Sony seems to be the only manufacturer making strides with this technology.
Trinitron 2 anyone?
I can't wait for OLED. I'll hold off on buying a new television until they're large enough for what I want. It might be a few more years but my tube tv (circa 1988) should hold me until then (with the appropriate converter box installed in 2009).
I imagine your TV is going to die before any 25"-30"+ OLEDs are cost-effective.
to dispel the common belief that all analog tv's will need the new converter boxes.... thats only if you are using OTA broadcasts.... That's right, bunny ears. Unless you still live like its the 50's, you won't need the government subsidized "digital converter boxes" your cable/satellite box does everything you need
I'm one of those 34 million people that still use OTA broadcasts. I gave up on my DirectTV when I realized how many hundreds of dollars I was spending just to watch sports and Formula One races.
I want one!
You want a small OLED screen? Then buy a iriver click2, there you got your tiny OLED display, and it's portable too.
If you are on the cheap: even some no-name chinese outfits sell PMP's with OLED now.
Getting a cut from it will probably be worse than a paper cut.
"What's that band-aid on your finger?"
"Aw, man, I TV-cut myself on an episode of AotS."
I'm all for new flat panel technology! Only problem is I doubt we'll see a 70" or 80" OLED panel for about another 6 plus years - I don't think I can wait that long to buy a new TV.
0.008 inches "thin"?
Easy there Steve Jobs - inches "thin" isn't a way of denoting width.
I am waiting for them to make these screens CHEAP and mass-produced, be cool seeing them on cereal boxes and everywhere. Although there is the problem of battery etc.
Geez, this technology just seems to walk away as we get closer.
Have you even seen 1 single conventional led on any 'cereal boxes'? what's the nonsense about displays on cereal boxes? You must be from some cereal boxes fetish group huh.