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Sony unveils ultrathin rollable OLED
Sony on Wednesday unveiled a flexible OLED (organic light-emitting diode) display so thin it can wrap around a 4mm cylinder–roughly the diameter of the average pen or pencil.
The 80 micrometers-thick OLED display (about the width of a human hair) can continuously display moving images even while being rolled up, as Sony demonstrated in a video below.
The working flexibility is possible because engineers have managed to lose the rigid driver IC chips usually used in the substrate of a screen in exchange for a gate-driver circuit with OTFTs (organic thin-film transistors), according to Sony.
The 4.1-inch display, which has a resolution of 432×240 pixels (121 pixels per inch), is not for sale. It’s simply a research prototype Sony said it hopes to one day incorporate into products such as screens in mobile devices. Full demonstrations of the screen will be given this week at the SID (Society for Information Display) 2010 International Symposium in Seattle.
The consumer electronics giant has been at the forefront of this technology, showing one of the world’s first flexible OLEDs in existence at CES 2009, as CNET has reported. That screen was .2 millimeters thick.
Of course, Sony is not the only one experimenting with thin and flexible screens.
In April 2009, Dai Nippon garnered much attention with its flexible and seemingly animated posters for the Rakuten Eagles, a Japanese baseball team. The screens incorporated both energy-saving OLEDs and LEDs.
GE has also been working on ultrathin OLEDs, but in an effort to apply the technology to its lighting products. In March 2008, GE unveiled thin and flexible lighting OLEDs that can be manufactured in rolls akin to newspapers on a printing press.
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Intel debuts concept notebook with four displays
(Credit: Nicholas Aaron Khoo)SAN FRANCISCO–Talk about extreme multitasking. If two displays on a notebook, like Lenovo’s ThinkPad W700ds‘ Side Panel, don’t do the trick for you, Intel’s about to up the ante with four. Yes, that’s four–one primary LCD screen and three auxiliary OLED screens above the keyboard. The aim here is to allow the user to organize information the way he or she prefers it.
Touted as the world’s first multitouch, multiscreen concept solution, the prototype (code-named Tangent Bay) was unveiled at the Mobility Meetup, an Intel Insiders event for bloggers here. We got Intel rep Renuka Awasthi to demonstrate the touted seamless interaction between the main screen and auxiliary displays.
Intel’s Mobile Product Line marketing manager for Greater Americas showed some music files being dragged and dropped between the OLED panels using a finger, as well as flipped video files being moved up to the main LCD display from the auxilliary panels with ease. One could also contract, zoom, scroll, and pan content from one screen to another.
After the jump, blogger Nicholas Khoo has more photos and videos for Crave.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10358419-1.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
Report: Sony’s OLED TVs on hold
Nobody, least of all Sony, ever said it would be easy to start cranking out OLED TVs. It doesn’t help matters to be in a financial crunch.
So it should come as little surprise that according to a report in Tuesday’s Wall Street Journal (subscriber access only), losses in Sony’s TV division are driving the electronics giant to put a hold on future OLEDs TVs.
Sony shows off its OLED TVs at CES 2007. That’s a 27-inch model in the middle; all the others are 11-inch models.
(Credit: Michael Kanellos/CNET)
Citing people familiar with the matter, the Journal says that new OLED (organic light-emitting diode) production would compound the poor performance at Sony’s TV division–which looks likely to lose money again for the sixth straight year, meaning a return to profitability is paramount.
Sony’s TV division lost 127 billion yen ($1.34 billion) in fiscal 2008, noted the Journal, accounting for more than half of the company’s operating losses for the year.
More than two years ago, Sony showed off its OLED TVs, in 11-inch and 27-inch formats, to great excitement, and the company was hopeful to start getting them out the door sometime in 2008. But the 11-inch model sported a $2,500 price tag, versus 50-inch LCD TVs that cost the same or less.
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