Flexible, organic flash memory on tap at the University of Tokyo
By Joseph L. Flatley 
posted December 16th 2009 12:07PM
posted December 16th 2009 12:07PM
If the University of Tokyo has its way, we could be seeing an onslaught of flexible computing devices sooner than you think! Earlier this year the school made some noise with its stretchable OLED prototype and now a research group led by Takeo Someya and Tsuyoshi Sekitani has developed a non-volatile, flexible organic flash memory that may someday be used for large-area sensors, electronic paper devices, and non-volatile memory. Using a polyethylene naphthalate (PEN) resin sheet arrayed with memory cells, the memory can be bent until its curvature radius reaches 6mm without causing mechanical or electrical degradation. As it stands now, the device has a memory retention time of one day -- but the team maintains that this can be "drastically improved by reducing the size of the element and employing an SAM with a long molecular length." Piece of cake, right?
Wonder when we can paint a tv onto a wall
@laxic
not soon enough
@laxic
I wonder if this stuff will suffer from dimensia when it gets old? Maybe it has OCD engineered in, since it has to do the same task over and over?
@Ryujin, no soon is soon enough...
@laxic that's hilarious.
You hear so much of this 'soon, soon, soon' stuff when it comes to the flexible tech... well I'm certainly not holding my breath. Call me when my top hat can finally bring Frosty to life, will you?
chest buuump
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*chest buuump*
That is amazing! That's what I said;)
No it isn't.
Yay for 1 day memory retention!
@MJGAMER 1991 XBL
Implement this into "memory foam beds" + video, and now you can make 3d models to movies.. of sexy time!
I could use an organic memory bank- my current one has a slow buffer rate.
I always imagine what would i fell if i was arrested and many years later get out and see all those new tech inventions!
Of course i only imagine the "coming out" part, not the "inside the jail".
Makes the rolltop design not seem so out of reach
http://gizmodo.com/5375467/unfurl-the-rolltop-the-flexible-oled-display-laptop
This is something i enjoy reading in engadget, go tech goo
Is it just me? or is everyone else starting to think that those crazy paper thin screens that people use in futuristic movies are pretty close to happening?
(Paper batteries + Flexible OLED screens + Flexible Flash Memory + some futuristic super thin processor) - some of todays limitations = ultra thin magic screens that can do basically anything