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Morphees flexible smartphone concept would see your cell come alive

, Apr 29th 2013 Discuss [0]

Smartphones that change their physical shape could one day be bending and flexing in our pockets and hands, researchers suggest, with so-called "Morphees" adjusting to suit the user and current application. The concept of "self-actuated flexible mobile devices" - in short, phones and portable computing terminals that can bend, twist, open like a flower, or collapse to suit different use-cases - is one being explored by a team at the University of Bristol and DFKI Saarbrücken, and due to be presented at CHI 2013 this week. Read The Full Story

Plastic Logic unveils 42-inch flexible plastic signage prototype

, Mar 5th 2013 Discuss [0]

Technology in the display market is evolving all the time. One of the most interesting technologies in the market are flexible displays that allow the creation of curved signage. Those flexible displays could also eventually find their way into the smartphones and other devices that we all know and love allowing for new form factors. Plastic Logic and TOPPAN have announced they are unveiling the world's first 42-inch flexible digital signage prototype Japan. Read The Full Story

Samsung to show off flexible 5.5-inch displays at CES

, Dec 19th 2012 Discuss [0]

Samsung is set to show off two flexible displays at CES 2013, one of which is a smartphone display and the other a 55-inch TV sized display. This isn't the first time we've heard about flexible screens from the Korean company. Back in March, the company announced that it would eventually mass produce these flexible displays for its devices. Read The Full Story

Samsung flexible OLED displays ordered in bulk

, May 14th 2012 Discuss [0]

This week Samsung itself is letting the world know that it's on top of "huge" numbers of orders for flexible AMOLED Displays by the name of YOUM. This information comes direct from Samsung Electronics Chairman Kwon Oh-Hyun as he lets us know that flexible AMOLED displays will be hitting the market in the third quarter of 2012 when Samsung's mass production for the hardware begins full force. "The demand from our clients is significant!" noted Kwon, noting that OLED technologies along these lines will certainly be replacing LCDs inside the next few years as screens on mobile devices get thinner and brighter by the week. Read The Full Story

Researchers develop world’s most efficient flexible OLED display

, Mar 29th 2012 Discuss [0]

We saw a flexible display concept from Nokia back at Nokia World in October, and Samsung filed a patent application not too long ago that revealed the company was working on potential foldable display applications. Researchers at the University of Toronto have demonstrated that the technology is feasibly possible on a large scale. They’ve managed to combine OLEDs with a flexible plastic, leading to more efficient displays and a simpler manufacturing process. Read The Full Story

Samsung flexible display patent reveals potential new form factors

, Mar 7th 2012 Discuss [6]

Samsung confirmed last week that it was planning to mass produce flexible OLED displays to be used in forthcoming products either later this year or early next, and now new patent filings have emerged which show off the potential applications of the technology. On the horizon: rollable screens that pull out of a pen-style casing, folding digital books and more. Read The Full Story

Samsung’s Liquavista buy-out official: color video e-paper and more in pipeline

, Jan 20th 2011 Discuss [0]

Liquavista has confirmed that it has been acquired by Samsung, as was reported earlier this week, with the electrowetting display specialists now a fully-owned affiliate. According to Samsung's press release, it will use the electrowetting tech to produce devices - presumably including ereaders and tablets - that can support color video playback with e-paper displays. Meanwhile, future applications include transparent, transmissive and transflective displays. Read The Full Story

HP Ready to Ship a Dick Tracy Wristwatch to the US Army Later This Year

, Jan 17th 2011 Discuss [0]

While we've seen plenty of devices that look like a small wristwatch with technology that's certainly not limited to just a watch, it's still not that infamous Dick Tracy watch that so many people want on their wrist. According to a new report from Mercury News, Hewlett-Packard (HP) is ready to move their prototype flexible display technology to the next level, and offer up a prototype "Dick Tracy wristwatch" to the United States Army. Read The Full Story

eJOUX Concept Design Shows Electronic Jewelry is the Way of the Future

, Dec 6th 2010 Discuss [0]

Slapping electronic things on every day items, especially electronic things that move or offer shiny lights, seems to be the way the future wants to embrace those every day items, and there's nothing wrong with that. Especially when it comes to every day items like jewelry, and it gets outfitted with a flexible display, where the owner is able to put anything they want on there, from moving images, to information about who's calling you. That's what the eJOUX electronic jewelry concept design is all about. Read The Full Story

Samsung Mobile Display Shows Off Flexible 3D OLED Concept at FPD International

, Nov 30th 2010 Discuss [5]

When it comes to AMOLED and Super AMOLED, the display technology is synonymous with Samsung. But Samsung doesn't want to just focus on the here-and-now. They've already shown off what a 4.5-inch flexible AMOLED would look like, so why wouldn't the company show off a concept design of what it would look like to see that technology on a bigger screen? That's exactly what they did at this year's FPD International. Read The Full Story

Liquavista Shows Off Unbreakable Flexible Displays [Video]

, Oct 28th 2010 Discuss [0]

Liquavista has been working on their electrowetting technology for awhile now, doing what they can to improve the technology and implement it in new ideas. Their latest use of the tech is the company's brand new flexible displays, which the company is very proud of. They've put a small announcement regarding the flexible displays on the front page of their webpage, as well as a video that you can find after the cut. Read The Full Story

Flex Display Phone Concept Features 5-Inch Sliding Screen

, Aug 9th 2010 Discuss [2]

Some of the best concept designs out there come in the small form of a cell phone. There's a lot of place to use a designer's ingenuity in there, especially considering you have a lot of people you have to make happy with just one design. But, that's where things like the Flex Display Phone concept come in, we imagine. It's designed to give you everything you need, all while still retaining that small form factor. Read The Full Story
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