Posted on 05/12/2009 1:30:56 PM PDT by DGHoodini
Researchers at the University of Tokyo have given new meaning to the term flexibility in the context of displays. They've developed of a stretchable display connected by organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) and organic transistors with a new highly-elastic conductor. Credit: Takao Someya, the University of Tokyo
The rubbery display, pictured here on the left, can be stretched to 50% of its normal size, folded in half or crumpled up without incurring any damage, and can also cover complex three-dimensional objects.
As Technology Review writes, the technology can lead to displays and simple computers that you can wear on your sleeve, or wrap around your couch, or even serve as artificial skin for robots or prosthetic limbs.
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I am NOT going to wrap a display around my crotch,
that’s just WRONG.
You step on a mine in Nam?
Maybe it should display the image of a fig leaf and a warning saying “contents unsuitable for viewers under 18 or those with heart conditions or pregnant.” :)
Might be fun at a party?
Seriously, I’m thinking CHEAP HDTVs.
I focused in on what it would do to the pixelation when I read that.
Rod Steiger, “The Illustrated Man” ~ we can remake that sucker with someone else and it ought to be fantastic. Now, to hire me a 3-D artist conversant in Blender (Cuts out the costs of the actors).
Eh..By any chance, are you a SG1 fan? Do you remember the episode called ‘Tin Man’? Wherein the team goes to a run down underground facility, and gets knocked out, only to wake up, with replicated android bodies? Now that’s something that intrigues me. A bit “Borg-ish”...But do you think it would be such an awful thing, to live life, and when your body begins to fall apart, wake up a week later, with the body of an “enhanced” 21 yr old? That is, if you wanted to.
Now we’re talkin’ neck computers.
Or, like, I think it was a Heinlein story, whenin a future society had developed a strict cultural and social structuiure, where courtships were long, and everyone wore masks ans all covering clothes, and it would be months even, before you ever saw a persons actual face. Their social masks they wore, had heads-up displays in them, to keep the wearer informed about the people they interacted with.
But even Heinlein, as far as I know, never imagined wrap around computer clothes, the internet-——I don’t think any scifi writer predicted the internet———You Tube, or rap music. Or maybe he did envision rap, which caused his stroke.
If they could make an OLED in the shape of a large sheet with a life-sized display of Catherine Zeta-Jones on it, we could throw it over Helen Thomas whenever she shows her mug in public.
Never heard of ‘The Forbin Project’? : o)
Rodenberry had ubiquitous interconnected computers from the very beginning of Star Trek. Been a long time, but i’m pretty sure the Lensman series had computer networks that got exploited. Don’t mean to rain on your parade, but Sci-Fi
has it’s right to claim being a forerunner to DARPAs development of the IP address,HTTP, and the “WWW”.
:o)
I recall that one. They weren’t full replicants, and their batteries tended to crap out early. Apparantly that particular society had not yet invented the long life battery.
His PC had an "interactive" shell however, and didn't need to be plugged in ~ drew power from bugs it ate or something.
The Star Trek connection with computer prediction was one I’ve never heard. Thank you. I can dwell on that, logically.
Well,m to a degree they had, the lone survivor talked about how many of the survivors that were among the original group, had developed portable power supplies, and went through the Gate to other worlds, and never returned, or went to the surface, and beyond the range of the power source abd the radiation, around the city. But of course, even a nuclear power source would deplete eventually, and as these people lived for thousands of years...Even our Nuke powered aircraft carriers need new nuke fuel, every... what?...seven years?
Thinking on it...The original pilot of Star Trek, with Capt Christopher Pike...Spock used the Starbase computers to feed in the computer programs that took over control of the Enterprises computers, and navigation systems, that sent the Enterprise on it’s way to Talos IV.
Its a science article, accuracy isn't that important.
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