Please hammer, don't hurt Samsung's flexible OLED prototype (video)
By Tim Stevens 
posted Oct 16th 2009 8:11AM
posted Oct 16th 2009 8:11AM
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this need to come out now!!! not later
Yeah, but Apple insider says they are no good for outdoors use!!! Don't believe the videos and hype (just been sarcastic)
The song in the background ftw.
Afterschool.
Is the background sound really singing.. AMOLED over and over?
its some korean song but yea it does sound like it!
They have a bunch of those songs that they use for ads. There are a couple of phones out already with these AMOLED displays. One ad in particular can be seen often in the cinema here before a movie starts. It's too bad the screens end up being used in a situation where you can't bend them anymore.. Hope they soon come out with this fold-open phone that is just one gigantic screen. Go 16:4 aspect ratio, go! :D
I know what i want to do, "Afterschool".
Can those be surgically implanted into the forehead?......Because mine would be on a 24-hour loop of highly-tuned japanese sportscars on a racetrack while european dnace music was playing.
AAAMOLEEEED AMOLE MOLE MOLE AAAAMOLEEEED
A A A MO MO MO MO LED LED LED!
Awesome Technology BTW.
If only they could make them last longer before they start to degrade.
OK, this needs to die along with the plasma burn in nonsense.
With the newest OLEDs, even the blue elements(historically the shortest lived) are lasting 10 of thousands of hours.
I understand that people have LCDs to sell, but OLED is just better.
Live with it.
@Jon
Better than a transmissive LCD for sure. However outdoors a reflective or transflective LCD still has a advantage, since the only way to make an OLED, which is 100% emissive, visible in sunlight is by increasing its brightness. Using more power and shortening the lifespan of the display.
Ok so which is more likely to happen; the need to replace your screen because the LCD has cracked or replace it because it has gone through it's lifespan and the display starts to degrade?
In mobile devices, as opposed to large panels for TVs etc, it's going to be cheaper to replace them and companies won't have to deal with replacing cracked screens that happens oh to easily on today's electronics.
Well done to Samsung for pushing new technology, I hope we can see this soon.
@jon
How long they last is not as important as the half-life of the intensity.
Even if the blue still works, how long till it's at half brightness? How long till it's *noticeably* out of calibration? It /is/ a good thing that our eyes aren't as sensitive to blue as other colors, but that doesn't we won't perceive the color distortion at all. The only way to compensate is by lowering the intensity of the other colors, balancing them to the lowest common denominator.
I'll take 20 dozen please I want to cover my windows in them
What happens if you tried to pin one to a wall? Will the whole panel stop working, parts of it, or just the area around the pin?
x2
I'll take a educated guess, I would presume it would just be the part around the pin because each pixel is being eliminated separately.
You mean illuminated? :-)
I expect it will mess up the row and column that the pin is in.
funny. not sure what you have in mind. As far as I know, one of the technical challenges of OLED is insulation. Avoid oxidation of the organic material. As the others said, I'm guessing the rest of it might still work, but by breaking the seal, the whole thing will probably become inoperable after awhile.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZfrFX36Hkc&feature=related
A moment of silence for the pretty OLEDs killed in the name of science.
Nah, wed all just go 6 sec back in time and the panel would cease to be broken
If they make TVs out of this stuff can i stop wearing my wiimote wrist strap?
Your comment made me shoot soda out my nose. Well done, sir!
STOP
HAMMERTIME
hammertime.
Totally hammertime.
Collaborate and listen?
Hammertime and Ice Ice Baby mix? :-s
ice is back with a brand new edition
The lyrics to the song in the background music from 47 seconds onward is "amoled" over and over. LOL
LOL, I thought I was just hearing things but apparently not.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEWkDQI0jN4
thanks for the youtube link!
that is like the coolest ad i have ever seen !! its so catchy for some reason. aaaaaa moooo leeed aaa mmoo leeedd
This is handy!
I always accidentally break the screen from my mobile with a hammer.. :|
Is it just me or are samsungs phones shitty when it comes to good quality, responsive touch screens?
They are unresponsive, and are laggy with their shitty 3d swipe menus that just lag like shit
iPhoneiPhoneiPhoneiPhoneiPhoneiPhoneiPhoneiPhoneiPhone
Your comment was pretty much on the money before you went into iPhone Tourette's.
Even more cool: a related video I just watched shows a passport in credit card for
factor with a buit-in OLED that is POWERED BY THE RF READER.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYMTFDydhNs
(If anyone was wondering about that particular video)
I saw that too, it was incredible!
Wow that was very cool, wonder when this will come out for everyone drivers license :p man OLED are great!
Leeloo Dallas Multipass FTW!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eV_eGm1qgGs
the sound is kind of off.....makes me wonder if this is just for show and not real test hahaha...sorry i also noticed the hammer kind of slows down when it hits the OLED
It could slow down because he doesn't want to put a whole threw the where ever the screen is sitting on. Or it could be totally fake let the conspiracy begin.
he is not even touching the screen with the hammer!!! watch closely people. this is total bs.
You're clearly hard of sight. May I suggest an eye doctor?
I agree he is hitting it. However he's hardly using any force at all. If they really want to show it off they should shown how much force it would take to damage it, and I'm guessing that it's still not that much. But still, over the past 15 years I've had maybe 10 different cell phones and still don't see why you would need this type of impact resistance.
He is hitting the damn thing with the same force that the LCD couldn't handle. What else do you want - as wiimote thrown at 5 paces??
Looks impressive, but if this thing is attached to my phone thats a differnt story. If I hit that with a hammer I can see the screen staying intact, but the phone...not so much.
So you think that hitting the screen would cause less damage than bending it to the degree he did?
Think about it...
he is clearly NOT hitting the screen -- watch the way the shadow falls on the table; each stroke has a different shadow density... try watching it with the sound off and it becomes obvious.
This has to be probably the sickest thing i've seen. In class once we designed a dual bar like phone where a screen could roll out from one bar attatched to the other I++I so seeing this makes our concept phone more and more possible! the phone looked pretty cool, it might sound kind of lame, but it was for a class and we had fun. lol
damn.... gotta go patent my OLED underwear designs....
AaaaMoleeed ! amolemolemole AMOLEED A-a-a-a-amoled !
the ending is smt like A-a-a-mo-mo-mo-a-a-a-amooled!
Background song: AMOLED by Son Dambi and After School http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEWkDQI0jN4
I want that room, and those black band sunglasses. . . HOLODECK FTW
great endorsement for a phone. Song is catchy and the video is definitely memorable.
Thats great... now try bending it around a pencil instead of a finger, or creasing it like the average consumer will end up doing. I can't wait to see these things but don't sit back and think they are indestructible.
This sort of thing gets me pretty excited ;-)
I think I just found new roofing material.
I want some just to play with...
Capacitive AMOLED iPod touch (Or similar large screened MP4) with a piezo behind the screen instead of behind plexiglass would be insane.
Bring on the crazy & pointless AMOLED gadgets!!
YOU ARE NOT HITTING HARD ENOUGH!!!!
God Bless it!
I remember reading about OLED technology 2 years ago and drooling over the Optimus Maximus OLED Keyboard that I would never afford.
Why is this tech taking so long to go mainstream!
Give it to me now!
Good for anger releasing! Throw catch hammer it!
man they need to make those invisible suits out of these
He's not even hitting it! try watching it again with the sound off and it becomes obvious .
So let me see you bend your displays then
As soon as they come out with a PCB and electronics that can do the same trick they might have something then..
The hammer part looks faked.
The second one, that is. The sounds seem about a quarter-second slow, and it moves too fluidly to be hitting something.