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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 [0]

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

HP Showcases Flexible Displays, Hints at webOS Future

, Jul 12th 2010 Discuss [3]

There's been all sorts of speculation out there ever since HP acquired Palm. While plenty of folks out there would just be happy getting some new smartphones, there's even more who would love to see webOS on other things. Yes, tablets included. And while HP has said they're committed to exploring all of those options (smartphones included, thankfully), their own Research & Development department is obviously looking at other things as well. For example, while Phil McKinney of HP was on stage at MobileBeat 2010, he showcased something else HP is hard at work on: flexible displays. Read The Full Story

HP Flexible Display Rolls Out Onto the Scene [video]

, Mar 20th 2010 Discuss [2]

Well, well, well. Look at what we have here. It's been awhile since we last saw HP's flexible display, and we have to admit, it's been way too long. It's looking even better than it was back in the day, when the company and Arizona State University worked together to show it off the first time. Yes, we wish our computers were already made of this stuff, or maybe even our tablets, but for now we'll have to live with the screenshots, and maybe a video once in awhile, to hold us over. Read The Full Story