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Sony's Flexible OLED is Thinner Than a Strand of Hair
Gizmodo ^
| 5/26/2010
| Kat Hannaford
Posted on 05/26/2010 12:10:42 PM PDT by TChris
One of the main advantages of OLED is that it can be flexibleso 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.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Technical
KEYWORDS: oled; sony; tech; video
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posted on
05/26/2010 12:10:43 PM PDT
by
TChris
To: TChris
Oh, no, next they’ll be on milk carton’s.
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posted on
05/26/2010 12:12:39 PM PDT
by
norraad
("What light!">Blues Brothers)
To: TChris
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posted on
05/26/2010 12:12:48 PM PDT
by
Army Air Corps
(Four fried chickens and a coke)
To: TChris
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 :-)!
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posted on
05/26/2010 12:13:30 PM PDT
by
edh
(I need a better tagline)
To: norraad
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posted on
05/26/2010 12:13:34 PM PDT
by
Army Air Corps
(Four fried chickens and a coke)
To: TChris
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posted on
05/26/2010 12:13:41 PM PDT
by
Dallas59
(President Robert Gibbs 2009-2013)
To: TChris
organic light emitting diode to us who aren’t cool enough to really know what the hell you’re talking about.
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posted on
05/26/2010 12:14:06 PM PDT
by
knarf
(I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true)
To: TChris
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.
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posted on
05/26/2010 12:16:27 PM PDT
by
RC2
To: Army Air Corps
My big brother was so fat, when he ran away they had to use all 4 sides of the milk carton.
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posted on
05/26/2010 12:17:21 PM PDT
by
norraad
("What light!">Blues Brothers)
To: TChris; KevinDavis
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posted on
05/26/2010 12:19:32 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(Political Correctness Kills)
To: TChris
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posted on
05/26/2010 12:19:54 PM PDT
by
Dallas59
(President Robert Gibbs 2009-2013)
To: norraad
Newspapers will get very interesting.
12
posted on
05/26/2010 12:20:08 PM PDT
by
Jewbacca
(The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem.)
To: norraad
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? :-)
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posted on
05/26/2010 12:20:51 PM PDT
by
OldMissileer
(Atlas, Titan, Minuteman, PK. Winners of the Cold War)
To: norraad
or toilet paper............
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posted on
05/26/2010 12:21:39 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(When you see Jerusalem being surrounded by armies, you'll know that its desolation is NEAR. Luke 21)
To: TChris
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.
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posted on
05/26/2010 12:42:16 PM PDT
by
apillar
To: TChris
“
Sony’s Flexible OLED is Thinner Than a Strand of Hair
“
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.
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posted on
05/26/2010 12:48:10 PM PDT
by
VOA
To: TChris
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.
To: RC2
The Japanese do some incredible stuff. I remember in the 60s, 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.
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posted on
05/26/2010 12:54:42 PM PDT
by
Oatka
("A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves." –Bertrand de Jouvenel)
To: RC2
OLED were discovered and “invented” in America.
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posted on
05/26/2010 1:03:31 PM PDT
by
Durus
(The People have abdicated our duties and anxiously hopes for just two things, "Bread and Circuses")
To: TChris
AMOLED ?
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posted on
05/26/2010 1:10:15 PM PDT
by
ßuddaßudd
(7 days - 7 ways Guero >>> with a floating, shifting, ever changing persona.....)
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