Sony's 3.5- and 11-inch OLEDs are just 0.008- and 0.012-inches thin

Damn, sexy huh? That's Sony's 0.2-mm (0.0079-inch) thin OLED display. Granted, this 3.5-inch prototype is only capable of 320 x 220 pixels, just shy of a cellphone standard QVGA resolution. However, that panel's fracking impressive when compared to those relatively chubby 0.67-mm (and that's a world's slimmest), 320 x 240 pixel LCDs capable of just 2.2-inches of display. And just look at those blacks -- you can barely see the bezel.

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.

[AutoTom @ Apr 16th 2008 7:05AM]

that's too thin

naughty!

[Flashpoint @ Apr 16th 2008 8:09AM]

Kate Moss?

[Wisam @ Apr 16th 2008 8:25AM]

This one will blend

[Chuckles McGee @ Apr 16th 2008 12:15PM]

How long until customers start cutting themselves on these ultra thin screens?

[Anthony @ Apr 16th 2008 7:08AM]

next step ... transparency !

[randy @ Apr 16th 2008 10:27PM]

if the 3.5" isn't the screen in the next iphone, I'm going to jump off a bridge.

[Erik @ Apr 16th 2008 7:11AM]

Uh, oh. Slight breeze.

...

Lost my screen.

[Mike10010100 @ Apr 16th 2008 7:36AM]

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!

[Ghen @ Apr 16th 2008 5:49PM]

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.

[ahdok @ Apr 16th 2008 7:30AM]

Holy crap. That's thin.

How much does it weigh?

[chimes888 @ Apr 16th 2008 7:33AM]

Thats wat she said ! :P

[phanbouy @ Apr 16th 2008 1:56PM]

think you just pwned yourself, chimes

[Gorillamonk @ Apr 16th 2008 3:11PM]

yea, that didn't work out. Next time, in before sticky

[Thi mam(kris120890) @ Apr 16th 2008 7:36AM]

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)

[Attillia @ Apr 16th 2008 8:27AM]

You can predict when you will die? I'd buy into that!

[Hardcore @ Apr 16th 2008 9:26AM]

80 years left in your life? What are you 5?

[0megapart!cle @ Apr 16th 2008 10:38AM]

I don't know about you but I don't plan on ever dying. Modern Science will keep my alive for an eternity!

[teslasnp @ Apr 16th 2008 10:44AM]

just one eternity?

[Mikey @ Apr 16th 2008 12:47PM]

How many do you need?

[David @ Apr 16th 2008 6:03PM]

I'm sure modern science will find a way to create more eternities.

[PJK @ Apr 16th 2008 7:40AM]

Yes but whats all this obsession with thinness teaching teenage girls eh?!

[cekaay @ Apr 16th 2008 7:47AM]

Me thinks gadgets are hotter and more reliable than girls :D

[Mojo_Yugen @ Apr 16th 2008 9:30AM]

Saddest. Post. Ever.

[nh @ Apr 16th 2008 10:16AM]

Worst! Punctuation? Ever;

[DP @ Apr 17th 2008 1:59AM]

Gadamn cekaay, I hope that's just your nerdgasm talking.

[STrRedWolf @ Apr 16th 2008 7:49AM]

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.

[whowhatme @ Apr 16th 2008 3:56PM]

is that a freaking manticore for your user icon?

[guerilla779 @ Apr 16th 2008 7:50AM]

sony phones are really gonna leap samsung in terms of their thinness .

[derek @ Apr 16th 2008 8:19AM]

Yea they will soon be 0.54mm thinner. I cant wait.

[Norval Jones @ Apr 16th 2008 4:32PM]

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.

[T.J. @ Apr 16th 2008 7:58AM]

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.).

[Wisam @ Apr 16th 2008 8:27AM]

The resolution still low. They need to improve it for next gen displays

[Rayan @ Apr 16th 2008 9:12AM]

C'mon Sony, We are with you, bring 'em more

[Zal @ Apr 16th 2008 9:13AM]

Somebody wake me up when they get to 52 inches.

[kevjohn @ Apr 16th 2008 9:23AM]

0.012 inches?!?

Fatty.

[pundit @ Apr 16th 2008 9:26AM]

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)

[Wwhat @ Apr 16th 2008 1:59PM]

Next generation eh, I guess sony won't be releasing a new PSP for 5 years then.

[FrankTheCrank @ Apr 16th 2008 9:32AM]

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?

[nathan.wong @ Apr 16th 2008 9:57AM]

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).

[Aaron @ Apr 16th 2008 12:27PM]

I imagine your TV is going to die before any 25"-30"+ OLEDs are cost-effective.

[Greg Spruce @ Apr 16th 2008 12:19PM]

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

[nathan.wong @ Apr 16th 2008 2:00PM]

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.

[Richard Lai @ Apr 16th 2008 10:42AM]

Getting a cut from it will probably be worse than a paper cut.

[computer.dude.28 @ Apr 16th 2008 5:21PM]

"What's that band-aid on your finger?"
"Aw, man, I TV-cut myself on an episode of AotS."

[boe @ Apr 16th 2008 11:12AM]

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.

[MarkZ @ Apr 16th 2008 11:58AM]

0.008 inches "thin"?

Easy there Steve Jobs - inches "thin" isn't a way of denoting width.

[Jordan @ Apr 16th 2008 12:02PM]

I want one!

[Wwhat @ Apr 16th 2008 2:03PM]

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.

[Tommo @ Apr 16th 2008 12:12PM]

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.

[Wwhat @ Apr 16th 2008 2:05PM]

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.