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Researchers develop 0.1mm flexible AMOLED display
FlexUPD's unique property is in its use of a "de-bonding layer" between the glass and flexible substrate, which sticks to the production glass substrate firmly during the entire fabrication process and is completely non-adhesive to the polyimide film stacked on top. This allows the active matrix backplane used for high-quality color displays to be flexible.
ITRI claims FlexUPD will prove to be the simplest and cheapest option for mass producing flexible displays. FlexUPD will be commercialized soon and companies are already announcing plans to use it for flexible e-reader products, although the institute has not yet provided pricing estimates or a production timeline.
The technology will be quite useful for gadgets such as the Amazon Kindle. Other large companies in the industry, including Sony and LG, are working on flexible e-paper displays as well. Nevertheless, we're still a long way off from the days when we can buy a newspaper built using a flexible and thin display and not have to worry about losing it on our way to work.
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I can't wait for this technology to mature. Just imagine all the great Ed Hardy tshirts people will have!
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They already have pdf's that can be read to the reader. Therefore you have a flexible newspaper that reads to you and to top it off you could have the pictures in the paper be little youtube clips for such things as sports and political statements. The future is being developed everyday. It depends on how we use it, marketing, and whether or not it is ethical. If there is a way to make money using this technology we'll see it sooner than you think. Just my opinion.
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AutoCAD on the fly would be cool too. In certain environments you wouldn't want a rigid fragile piece of equipment laying around. Hence Toughbooks. Instead you would want to roll out a huge diagram of what the new office is to look like so everyone can see and then change it to customer needs.
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candy bar wrapper from the future
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peachgiant said:
mmm candy
wait, who said flying cars? how bout.. flying CARpets made of this stuff, and they're combined with the transparency/camoflauge camera/projectors, so you could be invisible in the sky from below.. The B-2 Stealth Carpet.
Or, you could sell advertising rights for the bottom of your carpet, it would be broadcast ad-space, a la the blimp in Bladerunner..
of course.. it only makes sense if these carpets are driven by giant sharks with lasers attached to their heads
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peachgiant said:
ooh how bout a paper-thin iphone/wallet
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That's cool. Imagine the future of tablet using this technology...
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Imagine in a decades time books will be in this format, now our kids/grand kids would laugh at their science books' chapter on the reproductive system.
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