Sony's rollable OLED display can wrap around a pencil, our hearts (video)

Nothing says "future" quite like a rollable display. Today Sony's giving us a glimpse into what will one day be with its 80μm-thick organic TFT-driven OLED display. The 4.1-inch display integrates Sony organic thin-film transistors and OLED technology onto a flexible 20μm substrate lacking any rigid driver IC chips. As such it can be wrapped around a cylinder with a 4-mm minimum radius. Display specs include a 432 x 240 pixel resolution (121ppi) supporting 16M colors while exceeding 100nits brightness and a 1,000:1 contrast. It's still research, but it's clearly advancing towards product... someday. See it in action after the break.

[FiveseveN Posted May 26th 2010 2:22AM]

Very impressive

[abedinthehouse Posted May 26th 2010 2:58AM]

"ooooOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!"


.....was literally my impression.


When can I get a second mortgage to buy this?

[HoldenMccrotch Posted May 26th 2010 3:30AM]

@abedinthehouse
forget about my morgatge, TAKE MY LIMBS!!!
XD
i cant wait for this kind of thing to be commonplace :)

[Kurian Posted May 26th 2010 3:55AM]

@FiveseveN
In the future you will be able to roll it around your wife while in bed so it displays Jenna Haze.

[Edmunn Posted May 26th 2010 5:12AM]

How about bending in another direction?

[jubjub Posted May 26th 2010 5:14AM]

@FiveseveN Nice that it's rollable, but can it be unrolled and rolled repeatedly without permanent damage?

[nowayman Posted May 26th 2010 5:58AM]

Oooooo.. next vers of PSP is gonna be awesome.

[r19578 Posted May 26th 2010 6:35AM]

@abedinthehouse that's too expensive for a pencil.

[YvesOfWinter Posted May 26th 2010 6:46AM]

@FiveseveN

WHERE IS MY NOKIA MORPH!!!???

[Failbait Posted May 26th 2010 10:00AM]

@Kurian
MEGA!!!

[Sarcasme Posted May 26th 2010 10:27AM]

@FiveseveN Soon you can watch p0rn on your condom.

[Barbaric Posted May 26th 2010 10:31AM]

@Kurian
Yea, but at that point in the future, Jenna Haze will be "mature"

[LifeSizeActionFigure Posted May 26th 2010 10:57AM]

@jubjub It seems like the job of that there machine to find out.

[Blocparty Posted May 26th 2010 5:05PM]

@Edmunn i was thinking the same thing, i think it´s not possible...

[oproski Posted May 26th 2010 2:23AM]

Stick these in fortune cookies, it'll make them more interesting :)

[Dante of the Inferno Posted May 26th 2010 2:36AM]

@oproski

"Worth a fortune" cookies?

[Coufu Posted May 26th 2010 3:56AM]

@oproski in bed?

[nicholasphan Posted May 26th 2010 5:52AM]

@Coufu

and LG is filing a patent for this?

[tonyprince Posted May 26th 2010 1:21PM]

@oproski have u actually had a fortune cookie? how do u think they got in the cookie? those papers are baked along in the oven. putting those chemicals in your cookie could mean lead poisoning.

[howardchief Posted May 26th 2010 5:32PM]

@oproski "Help, I'm stuck in a fortune cookie factory."

[WenJam Posted May 26th 2010 2:23AM]

The future in the making.

[tobsmonster2 Posted May 26th 2010 3:18AM]

@WenJam
8 micrometers thin though? How are they gonna manage that, h4x0rs & a1mb0tz???

[nicholasphan Posted May 26th 2010 5:55AM]

@WenJam

why aren't more people digging this?! more people need to see its awesomeness!!

[cooldead Posted May 26th 2010 2:26AM]

awesome

[Jon Niola Posted May 26th 2010 2:27AM]

Really amazing how fast innovation seems to be happening these days.

Just 10 years ago this was the stuff in sci-fi movies. 10 years from now it will be standard issue in car windshields, high-end eye glasses, etc.

[Winters75 Posted May 26th 2010 3:15AM]

@Jon Niola You can thank the crash in Roswell for that.

[xaduurv Posted May 26th 2010 3:36AM]

@Winters75 don't you remember? They're reverse-engineering Megatron!

[Munny Swirl Posted May 26th 2010 3:44AM]

@Winters75

Area 51 will always be my answer why these tech exist.

[ounkeo Posted May 26th 2010 10:12AM]

@xaduurv

NBE1

[dardub Posted May 26th 2010 11:41AM]

@Jon Niola
I'll never be satisfied until I can buy a hover car.

[poundcakekid Posted May 26th 2010 2:29AM]

hope i can take this to class why powerpoint is on so I can watch some office or simpsons and easily put it away after!

[10nisman94 Posted May 26th 2010 2:32AM]

Digital Scroll

[jonschu Posted May 26th 2010 2:32AM]

I am truely blown away!

[AlienSix Posted May 26th 2010 2:33AM]

New way of cheating on test?

[Teslanaut Posted May 26th 2010 2:59AM]

@AlienSix Alex, why are you looking down your pants?

Answer: I have a screen on my penis.

[NHAnimator Posted May 26th 2010 8:20AM]

@Teslanaut

Screenis?

[TCrimson05 Posted May 26th 2010 11:16AM]

@NHAnimator

So much WIN here LOL!

[parag Posted May 26th 2010 11:59AM]

@Teslanaut
I was just thinking about discounted condom packs...courtesy live ad placements!

[Faceless Troll Posted May 26th 2010 2:34AM]

Throw in some touch-screen gesture controls and we're talking gravy.

[SeeKo Posted May 26th 2010 3:19AM]

@Faceless Troll
Not unthinkable, is it? With Super-AMOLED the touch sensitive layer is integrated directly into the screen itself. Maybe in a few years it will work with this one too. :-)

[Kromatik Posted May 26th 2010 10:26AM]

@SeeKo

Mmm, gravy.

[took Posted May 26th 2010 2:34AM]

finally we might get a way to have nice big screens to work on AND have them portable!

[iep Posted May 26th 2010 5:40AM]

@took

I remember seeing other prototypes of flexible displays, the problem there was that you could roll it up about 4 times before it went dead.
Being so thin, it is likely this has the same problem.
Let's hope they get it fixed soon, but even with a restriction like that there are tons of possibilities already.

[Massive Poop Posted May 26th 2010 2:37AM]

The new fruit roll ups.

[Shunnabunich Posted May 26th 2010 12:09PM]

@Massive Poop
...as in rollable iPhones. Smartphones on a stick that you unroll like miniature Venetian blinds.

[WenJam Posted May 26th 2010 2:39AM]

Imagine one day being able to waltz into a room with a scroll, unroll it and hang it up on the wall as a TV screen.

Kickass.

[fourzero40 Posted May 26th 2010 2:47AM]

@WenJam You sir, are full of win.

[fpad77 Posted May 26th 2010 4:35AM]

@WenJam You'll spend half an hour getting it to stay flat against the wall after un-rolling it.

[dcoke Posted May 26th 2010 4:58AM]

@fpad77 not necessarily, if you mix the roll-able properties with some thing that when electrically charged hardens it (which in my ignorance right now I know exists, but can't recall the name of it). Oh and can we say PSP Flat?

[zangetsu2 Posted May 26th 2010 2:13PM]

@WenJam
I'm looking forward to laptops that look like small keyboards with a scroll next to them. Small enough to fit in cargo pants pockets. Then take it out and unroll your 22" widescreen monitor.