Sony's Flexible OLED is Thinner Than a Strand of Hair

Gizmodo ^ | 5/26/2010 | Kat Hannaford

[TChris]

One of the main advantages of OLED is that it can be flexible—so flexible, in fact, that it can be wrapped around a pencil. Taking 2007's .3mm prototype Sony's made a new one just 80μm-thick.

That's about ten times the size of a red blood cell, or just a tiny bit thinner than a single hair. The whole OLED measures 4.1-inches in size, and has a 432 x 240 resolution and a contrast ratio of under 1,000:1.

[TChris]

[norraad]

Oh, no, next they’ll be on milk carton’s.

[Army Air Corps]

That is seriously cool.

[edh]

I guess those animated boxes of cereal we saw in “Minority Report” will be here sooner than we thought :-)! I wonder what devastating effects OLEDs have on he environment :-)!

[Army Air Corps]

Smart Cartons. ;-)

[Dallas59]

Roll up TV set?

[knarf]

organic light emitting diode to us who aren’t cool enough to really know what the hell you’re talking about.

[RC2]

The Japanese do some incredible stuff. I remember in the 60’s, there use to be an international contest. Someone would design something, send it to the next country and they would try and improve it. One year, a coil spring was designed and sent around the world. It finally got to the point that the spring became so small that you could hardly see it. Japan took that spring and drilled a hole through the wire. Nobody could beat that.

[norraad]

My big brother was so fat, when he ran away they had to use all 4 sides of the milk carton.

[GeronL]

kewl

[Dallas59]

Watch This!

[Jewbacca]

Newspapers will get very interesting.

[OldMissileer]

My big brother was so fat, when he ran away they had to use all 4 sides of the milk carton.

Any relation to Larry The Cable Guy's sister? :-)

[Red Badger]

or toilet paper............

[apillar]

I was talking with a friend of mine about this the other day, I think within the next 20 years technology like this will become some cheap and prevalent that you will be able to put rolls of it on your walls, like wallpaper, to give yourself the illusion of sitting in the middle of a forest, a cafe in Paris, or even the surface of Mars. Sort of a very primitive holodeck.

[VOA]

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Sony’s Flexible OLED is Thinner Than a Strand of Hair
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Foreigners developing technology that Americans can’t/won’t.

Because Americans are too busy filling out tax forms and paying for
freebies for unions and people that refuse to work.

[newguy357]

80 microns would be a very thick hair. Most are more like 50 microns, which is less than the screen in question. Seems like a stupid comparison, but still a very cool device.

[Oatka]

The Japanese do some incredible stuff. I remember in the 60’s, there use to be an international contest. Someone would design something, send it to the next country and they would try and improve it.

Back in the '60s some Americans created "the thinnest wire in the world" and sent it to the Swiss as a challenge to do better. The wire came back with no note, and nobody could figure it out - until, under a microscope, they saw the wire had a hole drilled through the core.

[Durus]

OLED were discovered and “invented” in America.

[ßuddaßudd]

AMOLED ?