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    Busted: Why I Can't Wait for Flexible Displays

    Flexible OLED Screens Are Really Coming Now

    Flexible OLED Display is .05mm Thick, Flaps Around in the Wind

    Nokia Morph Cellphone Rolls Up, Stretches, Cleans Itself

    Samsung Shows Off Wild-Ass Flexible Displays
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    Image of Voyou_Charmant Voyou_Charmant
    06/14/09

    In reply to Busted: Why I Can't Wait for Flexible Displays
    Clearly opened a vortex into another world/dimension/time/expensive unnecessary device.
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    06/14/09

    In reply to Busted: Why I Can't Wait for Flexible Displays
    Meanwhile, my Sony Reader is chuckling at a red-haired albino.
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    Image of itchytooth itchytooth
    06/14/09

    In reply to Busted: Why I Can't Wait for Flexible Displays
    Try to get the cell radio out of it and into a laptop for eternal, free wireless data.
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    Image of frigg frigg
    06/14/09

    In reply to Busted: Why I Can't Wait for Flexible Displays
    One more vote for the naked gadget club.


    I don't get why people entomb their gadgetry in bulbous plastic sarcophagi.


    Life is too short, even if things break every now and then.

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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    06/14/09

    @frigg: Matt the iPod Genius was impressed at the condition of my 11-month old naked iPhone. Those who know how to properly care for and feed a gadget prefer our gadgetry in the buff.
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    Image of MrMcdoobie: I don't do drugs MrMcdoobie: I don't do drugs
    06/14/09

    In reply to Busted: Why I Can't Wait for Flexible Displays
    Books don't crack when thrown into your bag. :P
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    Image of weatherman weatherman
    06/15/09

    @MrMcdoobie: I don't do drugs: and neither do harmonicas, steno pads, or tin cans with string atttached to them. Maybe we should all give up out iPods, netbooks and cellphones for less fragile options, and then we can rename this site ludditemodo.
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    Image of 92BuickLeSabre 92BuickLeSabre
    06/14/09

    In reply to Busted: Why I Can't Wait for Flexible Displays
    Partially your fault?


    Well, I'm certainly glad I'm not dating mr. buchanan.

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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    06/14/09

    @92BuickLeSabre: Don't listen to him, ginger. You're too good for Buick anyway.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    06/14/09

    In reply to Busted: Why I Can't Wait for Flexible Displays
    I gotta say, I don't believe your story. I have a feeling you tried to be like Jason Chen. Let this be a lesson to you.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_OverSleptThisMorn GitEmSteveDave_OverSleptThisMorn
    06/15/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: Maybe Jason can take the kindle in his Time Banana and return to a time when it's not broke. OR, he can go back and warn Matt about the future.
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    Image of Complexified Complexified
    06/14/09

    In reply to Busted: Why I Can't Wait for Flexible Displays
    Use it as kindling in your fireplace during the winter.
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    Image of Sir Gibler Sir Gibler
    06/14/09

    @Complexified: is a pile of kindles called a faggot?
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    Image of Duckspwn Duckspwn
    06/14/09

    @Sir Gibler: In modern language, a faggot is not a bundle of sticks.
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    Image of Sir Gibler Sir Gibler
    06/14/09

    @Duckspwn Fumoffu!: in dictionary language, it is.
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    Image of deliciousburglar deliciousburglar
    06/14/09

    @Sir Gibler: or the UK
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_OverSleptThisMorn GitEmSteveDave_OverSleptThisMorn
    06/15/09

    @Duckspwn Fumoffu!: Your modern language is a tool of the devil. My car gets 40 rods to the hogshead, and that's the ways I likest it!
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_OverSleptThisMorn GitEmSteveDave_OverSleptThisMorn
    06/15/09

    @deliciousburglar: @fryhole: @Shamoononon, Vampire Grater:
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    Image of Nick Nick
    06/01/09

    In reply to Flexible OLED Screens Are Really Coming Now
    roll out screens are going to give a new definition to the term 'scrolling.'
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    Image of Eauboy Eauboy
    06/01/09

    In reply to Flexible OLED Screens Are Really Coming Now
    Yes, I will wear an OLED suit! Last one I'll ever need to buy.
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    Image of bosskev bosskev
    06/01/09

    @Eauboy: Sure, Eauboy, if you say so...but that's exactly what you said in 1978 about your leisure suit.


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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_OverSleptThisMorn GitEmSteveDave_OverSleptThisMorn
    06/01/09

    @bosskev: Hey, I was born in 1978!
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    Image of bosskev bosskev
    06/01/09

    @OGH!_GitEmSteveDave: Well, this is all starting to make sense. The woman in turquoise and the guy in white wouldn't by chance be your parents would they?
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_OverSleptThisMorn GitEmSteveDave_OverSleptThisMorn
    06/01/09

    @bosskev: Perhaps. I was adopted. Yup, 30 years and 364 days ago, I was handed over to a German Catholic Nurse as the bastard I was. She didn't speak a word of English, and sang lovely German lullabyes, which could explain my love of accents.
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    Image of bosskev bosskev
    06/01/09

    @OGH!_GitEmSteveDave: Er...um...was there a hint in there somewhere? Something about...? Ah, guess not. Never mind.
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    Image of bosskev bosskev
    06/01/09

    In reply to Flexible OLED Screens Are Really Coming Now
    Am I the only confused as to why a bendy display is even remotely useful or practical?
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    Image of Monty Monty
    06/01/09

    @bosskev: Surely you have noticed that the world has run out of flat walls to put up screens, so now we have to start using corners.
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    Image of Gary_7vn Gary_7vn
    06/01/09

    @bosskev: I was wondering the same thing. The only application I can think of is a largish screen that unrolls like a scroll, but even then I really don't see how that would be particularly useful.


    And wouldn't all that flexing delaminate the particles that they so carefully deposited on the substrate?


    There might be an application for really large screens, say 36 inches and up that you could roll up for easy transport, but even then the "screen" would need to be supported somehow, just as a standard projection screen is now, so you would not save much weight or space.

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    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    06/01/09

    @bosskev: Maybe it would help with durability. If you have a 2mm thick rigid screen, simply lifting it might cause it to crack.
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    Image of Rabid Penguin Rabid Penguin
    06/01/09

    @Gary_7vn: You may not save much weight or space in the screen itself (with regards to a standard projection screen), but with the oled-flexible screen, the screen is all you need. No projector necessary.
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    Image of Nick Nick
    06/01/09

    In reply to Flexible OLED Screens Are Really Coming Now
    soo, the old silly puddy on newspaper technique. brilliant.
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    Image of mikeness mikeness
    06/01/09

    In reply to Flexible OLED Screens Are Really Coming Now
    I wonder if this department at ASU has bleechers in their lab, I would rather go watch them break some OLED ground than watch my good ol' college football team disappoint again.
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    Image of Nick Nick
    06/01/09

    @mikeness: tim tebow demands your presence.
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    Image of vladdybear vladdybear
    06/01/09

    In reply to Flexible OLED Screens Are Really Coming Now
    I don't get it. But the board is not flexible.
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    Image of Bigbadbikernerd Bigbadbikernerd
    06/01/09

    @vladdybear: No, but think about it. A laptop with a roll out screen. It would really cut down on bulk.
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    Image of bosskev bosskev
    06/01/09

    @Bigbadbikernerd: Uh...I don't see how. At all.


    A paper-thin rigid flat screen takes up the total volume of...well, a piece of paper, virtually negligible. However, that same flat screen rolled into even the tightest of tubes--say 1", which right such a tight radius looks to be unlikely--now adds considerable volume and bulge (and not the fun kind) to your electronic package (again, not the fun kind).

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    Image of bosskev bosskev
    06/01/09

    @bosskev: ...which as of right now* such...
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    Image of Monty Monty
    06/01/09

    @Bigbadbikernerd: No question that ideas like roll-out screens are what we really want out of a flexible OLED screen, but this is still (unfortunately) far from achieving that. Being able to flex the screen is a nice start, but I get the sense from this that we are maybe a decade away from seeing our first roll-out screens.
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    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    06/01/09

    @vladdybear: There is no flaw in the design... It's all ok...


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    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    06/01/09

    In reply to Flexible OLED Screens Are Really Coming Now
    As excited as I am about this new technology, I'm also distraught that creepy engineer guy is stealing my soul.


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