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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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???
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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