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Samsung Screen Resists Merciless Hammering Without a Scratch

By Jesus Diaz Published October 16, 2009, 2:50 pm ET

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Color me impressed. Watch as this guy relentlessly beats this new Samsung flexible screen with a mallet. Amazingly, the 2.8-inch active matrix OLED—only 0.01 ounces, and 20 micrometers thick—keeps running happily, without a single scratch. [Gadget Lab]

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