Sony's flexible OLED mockups
By Paul Miller 
posted Jan 12th 2009 11:36AM
posted Jan 12th 2009 11:36AM
posted Jan 12th 2009 11:36AM
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""the flexible display that going to power them all when they hit the market... in the year 2000.""""
what the hell engadget?? you guys know how to read dates????
Is this a Conan O'Brian joke?
Since these are just mockups and they have no proof this concept is going to work, Engadget has chosen to put the product comming out in the year 2000 which is the widely known year in when everything we know was supposed to change, along with everyone getting flying cars and jet packs.
I think that was supposed to be read "In the yeeeeeeeeear two thousaaaaaaaaaaaand!"
Not much has changed but they live under waAAHAHAGETOUTOFMYHEAD!!1¡¹
in the year 2000...a strange virus will kill every man in the world except conan o'brien, and every woman in the world except jennifer lopez, the marriage will last 32 days
It'll be strange, because we'll all be fully grown.
Welcooome to the wooorld of tomorroooow!
Binary solo!
In the future, there will be no more elephants.
And there will be no more unethical treatment of elephants, either.
WTH, Brian! Don't you know how to read humor, sarcasm even? I really shouldn't blast you so I won't, but your low rank I'm sure sends the requisite message. Cheers!
So wait, the display isn't even functional in all these concepts?
Oh Sony...
That is why it is called a concept...
The main circular panel they're showing off works. The mock-ups are just examples of how it might be used.
Evan, what part of 'mock-up' don't you understand?
They already shown it functioning here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcAm3KihFho
Phenomenal!
Hurry up and release them already.
It's been there from the Year 2000..
but can you imagine a laptop with a touch-screen like that ???
Lower part would be the Keyboard and the higher the Screen and if you like you could make it as one screen.. Super thin foldable Tables.
Wow that would be awesome !!
Wow, did you think of that all by yourself while looking at the picture of the same thing?
Naaa, I just read it from it in the article... mo ha ha ha...
The only thing that is seemingly unchanging is battery size.
But, will it blend?
YES!
:-D
No, but it will bend.
They have gone one better than Apple and removed the keyboard.
Actually, assuming multi-touch and a decent layout (colemak, dvorak, etc), no keyboard is the ultimate keyboard.
I can't wait to not actually have to press keys down to type.. It's so much work sometimes..
Haptic feedback is an interesting challenge though..
It sure doesn't beat the MacBook Wheel!
Whats up with # 3 of 13 saying "no photos please" and then their are 13 pictures of this thing. Sorry just had to point that out, it was too striking... Cool concept though...
They probably didn't want a million photos of these concept models being posted around the internet because you know how stupid people are they would be flooded with people asking "HOW MUCH FOR DE BENDY LEPTEP?!!"
Also these wild concepts always leave the companies looking bad until they make the concepts a reality.
The screen and the concepts were by far the coolest things at the show... but I about got my head taken off when I tried to take pictures.
Throw a ton of gloss on it and of course it looks "sexy".
Concept cars run- so should concept laptops. Put an atom processor, throw a video through loop and call it a day. Not too difficult Sony!
Concept? or Mockup? Put on some glasses and learn to read. Not that difficult Bryan!
But it's so darn difficult to read. I'll copy the beggining to the second sentence again so maybe you can read it this time around G.
"They showed off a full-screen laptop (pictured), bendable e-reader, and Walkman bracelet concepts...."
Correction FAIL!
"Scotty, what's bioplastic? Can it harm the crew?"
"I dunno Captain, it's new to me too. Better be safe than sorry, when you and Bones beam down, wear protection. And why not take some green stuff too, just in case..."
"Bendy factor 7 Scotty, let's get out of here..."
"And don't forget to bring Ensign Wilson, he's over there in the red shirt".
"we're they're headed" -- I guess if spell check doesn't catch it, it must be right.
Hats off to you for photographing the "No Photos Please" sign in the background!
I was gonna say the same thing. When I was there, two guards were standing there staring me down because I had my camera in my hand.
... in the year 3000 :)
damn how i miss the year 2000, it was a great year
"but we like we're they're headed with it."
*where
Wow!! World's first display cum chair !
It is the distant future,
The year 2000.
we are robots.
The world is quite different ever since the robotic uprising of the late 90's.
Who else is bored of flexible oled screens? They still wont fold in on themselves or they will break, cant see any real use.
Every single company has put out a prototype flexible oled, we have seen each one, each one has a small bend applied with a large radius.
Ok we have seen this tech, either introduce it or get over it!
You don't have to fold the screen. Look at the Readius. It uses a flexible display that rolls up. Of course that's eInk, but eventually the same thing should be possible with OLED too.
Of course even if you can't collapse the screen, that doesn't mean flexibility is useless. A screen that can bend, even just a little bit, is going to be a lot more resistant to impacts than ones that are rigid.
So you cant fit a large display in your pocket because it cant fold.
It isnt more resistive to knocks if it bends. These oled screens are fragile as. They still need a wiring matrix and have a small amount of give to allow them to bend, all the pics we have seen of the bend are pushing the device to the limit, it wont roll up. The most they are going to be able to do is make a watch with a screen that follows the contour of your wrist. Useless technology unless i can get more screen in my pocket.
The deal for this technology is not that so you get more screen in your pocket, if you want that the best way is to get 10 panels and collapse them with hinges. This flexable oled tech allows for a continuous panel without needing a gap due to shape change, so you get that laptop concept which eliminate the physical keyboard and give you a smooth screen for the entire surface. Folding in without hinges and multiple panels is way too complex, we haven't found that kind of material.
OLEDs are fragile because they are built on brittle substrates and wires. Replacing the substrate removes one issue. Using organic transistors, like used in the Readius (and the company has even stated that this technology could be adapted to other display technologies), can do help with the other.
I play with my navel (belly button)
Slap some keys and a regular old screen on that thing at it would still be a pretty redical design :)