Sony unveils 0.3mm thick OLED display
By Paul Miller 
posted May 28th 2008 1:03PM
posted May 28th 2008 1:03PM
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beautiful.
How Drudge Report of you, Engadget.
I'm lost as to what that is supposed to mean.
@ IT-Accountant
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drudge_Report
I am not saying that is makes sense to me, I'm only trying to figure it out.
Not sure what language Justin is speaking, but it sounds like bollocks to me.
Pretty sure he means that they are just linking to external sites with very little original content.
Pretty sure that's what Engadget does.
Pretty sure Engadget should do whatever they want, cause no matter what they do, there'll be someone to complain.
Could someone send 'em some coffee?
0.3mm to 0.3 inch...never mind...OLED displays are gorgeous
yay... more tech they havn't shipped yet.
.. up next, 0.001 fm thick OLEDKOPTER. This will change the world!
hey Joe...did you read???
it clearly says "Sony is working on" do you want a prototype in the market???
hey Vidit, have you been reading engadget for the past year??? Thiner is certainly better, but you need to ship before you can claim victory. Especially for those demo'ed behind glass. Protos are good, products are better.
Vivid I thought the PS3 was a Sony Market prototype ;)
OLEDKOPTER
oh man sir, you surely win :)
if I see you in the internets, you win a beer :D
Loser
@Fernando
I'm sorry,but did you say that the PS3 was a prototype?
It's a pretty damn good prototype if it last longer than a retail 360 AND doesn't let a little dust stop it from reading it's own disc like the Wii.
And yes,this is coming from someone who owns them all.
something that's so thin would easily break in the hands of dumb fucks (some journalists). Why on earth would they not put such an expensive piece of equipment behind glass?
Yeah great, let's only report on things that you can buy right now that every damn person already heard about/owns. That would be really exciting. Why would anybody want to hear about new technology? Gosh.
27" is crap, make a 42" then rich people will actually be able to see the benefits of 1080p on it.
Crap for you but this will look nice as my desktop monitor.
sam
Rich people will be more interested in 52-inch and 103-inch models instead, IMO.
James Cameron
Only if you can afford it, but still would be wiser to buy 10 LCD monitors and have money left ;)
Ok it nice and all but I don't understand the need to be that thin. Chances are there will be alot of mishaps during the delivery with this product.
Sir, are you kidding?
Thin is in! Thin is in!
@Marcus
Thin is cool but imagine a 50" TV and how fragile it's going to be. Why did you think they encased that 0.3mm OLED inside a glass case? I guessed curiosity might cause people to touch the darn thing and shattered it.
They said it is the only one in the world and it is a prototype
Plus think in the future you have something that is thinner than a credit card
so you can place it in you wallet or laptops that are even thiner
one positive thing that comes to mind is that when they make screens they would take less space and most likely be lighter hence when traveling would weigh less and would be cheaper for travel
A TV thin enough to sit nearly flush on a wall like a picture frame would be nice, and thin screens would be even more helpful for mobile devices because it would reduce thickness and weight.
It'd be nice having a TV so thin that you can embed it within drywall and have it sit flush with the wall
Keira Knightley is still thinner.
Well I have to disagree since you obviously have not seen the Macbook Air / Keira Knightley / Sony OLED display comparison. You just can't argue with facts http://img292.imageshack.us/img292/2521/comparisonjm5.jpg
Ah, but your comparison is flawed -- they measured Keira width-wise, while the others were measured edge on.
In a proper comparison (either with Keira edge-on, or with the other two measured across their screen width's), she's the winner I bet!
OLED is great, except that there are no connections in existence that small for video. All of those OLED TVs have awkward boxes attached.
Wireless HDMI
Wireless would be the only way to keep it pretty. The frame would support that.... I can't wait... Just think of all the possibilities.. A car windshield, for instance, TV walls, Store fronts that advertise themselves.... Ever seen Minority report? Lamoid Tom Cruise pwns that terribly awesome screen to opera...Very similar....
*Raises hand*
do you really have to ask this on every story now gabe? lameass
but does it cut bread?
go google Sony Vaio X505 ..........ull get to know what cuts bread.
Yes, one day you too can cut bread while watching your favorite shows
with the Sony Knife TV..........
ahh, but does it blend? lol.
But will it blend?
will it play doom?
lol...it probably does
heck...it could probably be used a weapon, only if it didn't shatter when you hit the dudes neck
but can it noclip?
Not so much books to PC as it is books to web 2.0 (did we hit web 3.0 yet?), but great point made, FairyGothMother. Personally I think nano-technology will end up being the final replacement of paper.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=rpJQNMBNtOo
and... this means "hey kids break me i'm so thin !"
Yes, it does.
uh-oh.........
Another reason to starve your kids. You want them to break first.
Isn't there a point where thin crosses the barrier of flimsy? I'm pretty sure this breaks it. I, for one, don't want my monitors as thin as a sheet of paper, because there's a reason paper is thin----you can crumble it up, tear it . . it's disposable, very cheap and can be turned into magazines for 4 bucks a copy.
This is a high grade OLED monitor that might cost around 2,000 bucks . . . i want this to survive falling off my desk whenever i get pissed at my computer
I don't think plastic crumples to easily, even though its thin. And usually a piece of paper can survive a fall from a desk pretty easily.
I do see your point but here you have contradicted yourself.... If it is akin to paper that can be made into magazines for $4 then that is a good thing... Once processing is finished and its been out for five or ten years it will slowly replace paper and that will help the environment. Plastic is recyclable, flexible and long lasting. Then it will be just as cheep as a magazine... It happens all the time.... Dollars to Credit cards.... Books to PC.... etc...
Not so much books to PC as it is books to web 2.0 (did we hit web 3.0 yet?), but great point made, FairyGothMother. Personally I think nano-technology will end up being the final replacement of paper.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=rpJQNMBNtOo
your dirtytalk got me a boner phanbouy
Soon people will have OLED screens on their walls instead of wallpaper!
Yes, instead of tattoos!
this was displayed/demoed on wheel of fortune actually last nite. looks pretty cool.
Can it cut through MacBook Air???
The digg button on the main page for this article links to the Leopard Update story.
great another gadget i get to lose. can they make these things disposable so i can buy like 50 of em
"specs are slim at the moment."
oooh, dude... BAD pun.
aside from the obvious use as a computer screen, you guys think it might be possible to make a cloaking suit from this.
That would be soo very ultra ninja....I want one so I can start a revolution against the oncoming robotic takeover ;)
Check it:
http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/02/07/japan.invisible.ap/
They'll get it all worked out before we do... Freakin ninjas....
Jeepers, you people are so blinded by having an opinion, you dont know what you're having an opinion on! The whole point of making things like this is to push boundaries. To do things to see if they can. Of course, it's driven by money, but it's the engineers at the coal face that strive to make things bigger, better, faster etc. And the pay is crap so it's all about the glory. Good on 'em I say.
But this past Monday night on "Andromeda Strain" they were using E-Paper.
Where is an article about that and when can I buy some at Office Depot?
Number 2?
whoops... i just cornfused star trek with austin powers hahaha ok bye
Get this into your laptops Sony ASAP, like your TZ series. : D
amazing that so few of you can see the potential applications
OLED posters on ur walls
shopfront display windows
control/display surfaces in vehicles (volume and weight are critical)
picture walls
srsly, get ur imaginations out
srsly imagine the power bill ;)
Power bill shouldn't be too high... if i'm not mistaken OLED's use less power then LED's
Agree with myco I'm surprized a lot of you don't see this as a birth of a new future in the media display industry. Its lighter than plasma or LCD, its definietly fragile, now. but think about it, they're leaning towards thinner and possibly bendable screens in the future. Having OLED in your sunglasses as a leisure feature, watch news in it, OLED's on your walls without having to rearrage your furniture, display windows, having an OLED display instead of a windsheild, where the portions of the screen can be used for Automobile feature info and the rest to look at roads, this is just a birth its amazing! Imagine newspapers being replaced 10 years from now with this. NO need to buy newspapers just have a screen with you with updated news. very similar to the minority report and other movies.. Keep the imagination flowing guys, get out of your basement and see the possibilities!! lol
Anyone besides me see Red Planet? Remember the Handheld computer with a roll out see thru screen. I think this is a step in that direction. How many times has SciFi predicted technology? This is a prototype. It might be made on a rigid and/or fragile substrate, that does not mean a production unit would have to be. How breakable would it be if they can make one highly flexible? I have seen some pretty thin materials that are very hard to tear, crease, damage. AND... Weren't the first computer monitors ugly and monochrome? How would they compare to an HD capable LCD today? I think the first computer CRT used something resembling an o-scope display. Even progressing from that to a Sony Trinitron CRT is massively impressive. Imagine what displays will look like 10 years from now.
stevenj,
You are mistaken ;)
Contrary to popular belief, colored OLED'S consume more electricity then LED's
Did you read the article?
The Motorola U9 released in Europe has a touch sensitive OLED display on the front cover. Kind of small but it is a start. Slick looking phone.
Imagine a HUD in your car the whole inside of all the windows is a display of a cameras pointed in that direction. You could drive immediately without waiting to defrost the your car on cold mornings.
For those who want to know more on OLED i wrote this article for work, i accumulated all the data that seemed to be the same regardelss of where I went.
http://www.eggxpert.com/blogs/archive/archive/2008/05/22/oled-organic-light-emitting-diode.aspx
Just a brief article aobut what OLED is for those who do not have time to read all the websites. Then again you are reading Engadget so I would imagine you do have time. LOL
0.3mm! wow, that's thin. I hope it won't have poorer performance in colour, saturation, respond time and of course the price when it debuts in the near future. But it would probably layer up another few millimetres for the screen back, casing etc.
Oh ya, if they shave off another few nm in the future it could become bendable!
@ lmad Khan...
What's a newspaper?
crap, i need a screen that shocks the moron who dares to touch that'd be my dreams fingerprint-free monitor, how lovely
lets get a bit serious, dont we all need a paper-like screen that wont hurt our geeky eyes at some 22 hours continuous reading! but please not the digital ink!! IT MUST BE COLORED!!!
My cell phone cam has a bettery quality than these shots
What's the point of having it this thin, when the HDMI cable is 1 cm thick. The case will need to be atleast 2 cm thick to get a HDMI input on it.
Won't it snap?
this is amazing stuff here. Some of you are bagging on it cuz its so thin it will break. or flimsy, but if you were to mount it like wall paper to a tank, or apc, something solid, flimsy wouldn't matter, and with just a couple cameras for input, you have active camouflage. Hell if we can get it thin enuff we could put it on our soldiers, predator anyone? How bout a hud in your car. A tv you can roll up. Hell, if its multitouch, with google earth, you can do away with paper maps. think for a little while. knee jerk reactions just make you look ignorant. and dont bother attacking me for mentioning military aplications for it. Its a given that they will take do this sort of thing anyways.
What is that? a screen for ants?!
it needs to be at least... Three times that big!
(Thanks to Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson, and Will Ferril for making one of the best movies ever and providing me with a relevant comment on Engadget!!!!!)
I just noticed that the link says "inch" and the heading says "millimetres"... hmm...
SONY ARE WARLOCKS... DONT GIVE THEM ALL YOUR BASE
yea...really