What is Stopping Flexible Displays From Taking Over? 

Flexible displays would be perfect for VR. With the right lenses we could have peripheral vision.

That intro tho The girl is pressing all the wrong places

What happened to your hand?! - Just a phone cut.

I'm less concerned with the flexibility and foldability of the display. What interests me more is the paper thin nature of it. I'd love to have a large TV on my wall that is essentially just wallpaper.

Mom: "Timmy! We're going! Grab whatever you plan to bring! "Timmy: "uuuuhhhh fine." *rolls up TV and puts in car*

FINALLY I can fold my tv into a crane!

Would love to roll my 65 inch TV up and put it in my backpack.

Uses for the technology Magazines Newspapers Wallpaper Folding phone Mounting a TV Smartwatches Packaging Labels Clothing Replace projectors Portability

No need for triple monitors for gaming,now we have a 60'inch flexible screen for real gaming experience

I definitely want smart wallpaper that will act as a wall sized window to the outside world(and very large TV of course). You see out but everyone on the other side sees nothing but the brick and mortar.

1970: i bet in the future we will have fidget spinners and roblox 2017:

i just think it would be cool to have your walls covered with it . than you will be able to "renovate" each month by changing the colors of your walls/

Who cares about putting them on phones. Give me an 80" so I can hang it on my wall.

Perhaps flexible displays are the one piece of technology that companies want to perfect before throwing them out into the wild? Think about it, they're taking a big bet with flexible displays.

If the sound is such a problem can't the make some sort of Bluetooth pod that plays the sound?

what is the refresh rate and response time of such displays?

It would be perfect for my home built flight simulator. Wrap around screen would eliminate all the problems associated with setting up front, left and right views from the cockpit seat. Currently need to use three to six large lcds all running from synced computers with each screen showing a different view. Another approach currently used is to build a curved screen and use two or three projectors.... of course then needing to use warp software. The problem there is keeping the projections from jerking when the simulator is moving during flight aerobatics. A curved tv screen or two would be fixed to the body of the simulator thus eliminating multiple flat screens or projectors.

i like the gaming use at 2:20 to fill your peripheral view

can u explain the componints and material of this display ?

When you realised it was uploaded 4 years ago. Well it was not recommended right?

Foldable displays can make interactive globes! Imagine having a globe that can be changed to suit any geographical or geopolitcal visualization! It would be an excellent teaching tool!

strange how long it has taken for this to finally get to market!

Hi I need this flexible screen how can I buy a screen please tell me

These are a great idea with so many potential uses. I feel that as a phone screen though one simple issue people may have is that when pressing buttons on the screen for example, they like it to be a hard surface that they press against. Ok, so you can use a table i guess but what if that's not available.

id make a joint out of an lg g8 if thats ever gonna be a thing

2019 - it's finally here!!!

will it intantly go to full hd or 4k display?

I like the idea of using them in augmented reality. If you were able to make the screen fully transparent but still display stuff on certain sections, you could cover a pair of glasses with them, like the guy in the video. That would absolutely amazing. VR would also be an awesome application because you could reduce a massive amount of the bulk in a VR headset, due to the fact that the screen is so light and flexible, only requiring the accelerometers and motion tracking, which is already pretty small.

I want a phone screen that rolls up into a pen, and can extend to a tablet sized display...

Skip the foldable displays. Give us portals.

how much for an 64" display? and what's the resolution?

o.o I want one for my glassed like on that video . . . but howould it work?

Can make a booth-like contraption and play video games with a 360-degree view without VR.

The way things are changing so quickly, I think it's foolish to call a new technology useless or a waste.

Hi , This is awesome info! I am looking at having a secure roll-able screen for for my e-book, that my readers who fly frequently, can carry in their pockets or handbags.

How does it get its battery life? i am assuming you still plugged it in to a wall outlet.

still iphold will come with 16gb model with a price tag of $600

2 tiny curved see trough screens that fit over my eyeball like a lens. Augmented reallity is the future!

due to retention or something Oled display is 10% possible to see at day time, is their any solution to recover this issue?

I've already had an idea for something to use this with, just a matter of fully fleshing out a design and the like

If at all possible, someone could develop flexible ram, processors, SD cards, and other assorted parts to possibly make a completely flexible smartphone.

Samsung Galaxy fold just got shown off at the Samsung unpacked event

Sir can you please recommend me a video by which I can know more about flexible display

When it comes to that kind of tech, I want a mansion where all the walls and ceilings are like obviously real strong normal walls, but the outside has like a ton of protected cameras and the inside is all seamless and flexible screens that I can turn on and off to make it seem like I’m sitting in a room without walls or ceilings. I could see the active feed of what’s going on outside.

2:30 CONSOLE MUSTERED RACE

Your eyes can only see so many pixels so for example a 4 k tv would be the same as any below it but that's why the 4k is curved, so we can perceive more pixels so this flex stuff would be good with bending a tv to your preference for maximum vision

I want one of those eink bookmarks that you can program and change the pictures on

Even though I currently using an old plasma flat screen TV my sister gave me, I am still fascinated with this kind of technology and would love to see it take off.

put it on a t shirt or back of a jacket, have moving advertisement on clothes

they are kind of impractical. It has a lot of gee whiz factor, but do you read a newspaper flat, or do you bend it around something?

can you make flexible ccd sensor in a roll for analogue cameras?

Smart phone that rolls up scroll fashion battery in one side with retracting spring and electronics in the other half?

i just want one that folds up to a phone and then when you get home, you can unroll it to make it a tablet

lol so how much is a foldable 4k screen gonna cost? around 10k? :D

Very useful inside diving mask to display info about dive times etc.

That last example would be glorious. Playing video games on a screen that basically wraps around you would be so cool.

I travelled a “few years” into the future. Where’s my paper thin flexiscreen?

I can't see flexible, super thin smartphones gaining any popularity, but this technology could make it super easy to make all kinds of wierd curved displays

Now I'm watching this on my z flip 3. Crazy how far flexible displays have come

an excellent devices sir. easy to carry for events. travelling and labour expenses will b decreased for us definitely

For one thing i can take this as art and put a tv wherever i want, and have a screen as big as a wall we NEED this A.S.A.P ,and if you sell at a bargin price your volume will increase and it will be the new fad take my money allready😃😊

I would probably buy a see through flexible display. Put it on my window or something.

another problem that must be tackled with these is in software, having current aspect ratios like 16:9/21:9 and others. The screen may look a bit distorted the more its folded? unless when you fold it around you in games, you increase your field of view. either way it would be useful just when it comes to ease of transportation

At larger sizes would this be touch screen? Have they resolved the power, scaling, resolution issues? What are the largest dimensions for this technology?

FOLED or flexible organic light emitting diode is a type of organic light-emitting diode. The reason it has not taken over is due to the fact that it has a lot of disadvantages and it's development progress is lacking due to certain obstacles in the type of technology . "Both flexible substrate itself as well as the process of bending the device introduce stress into the materials. There may be residual stress from the deposition of layers onto a flexible substrate, thermal stresses due to the different coefficient of thermal expansion of materials in the device, in addition to the external stress from the bending of the device." Stress introduced into the organic layers may lower the efficiency or brightness of the device as it is deformed, or cause complete breakdown of the device altogether. Indium tin oxide (ITO), the material most commonly used as the transparent anode, is brittle. Fracture of the anode can occur which can increase the sheet resistance of the ITO or disrupt the layered structure of the OLED. Although ITO is the most common and best understood anode material used in OLEDs, research has been undertaken into alternative materials that are better suited for flexible applications including carbon nanotubes. Encapsulation is another challenge for flexible OLED devices. The materials in an OLED are sensitive to air and moisture which lead to degradation of the materials themselves as well as quenching of excited states within the molecule. The common method of encapsulation for regular OLEDs is to seal the organic layer between glass. Flexible encapsulation methods are generally not as effective a barrier to air and moisture as glass, and current research aims to improve the encapsulation of flexible organic light emitting diodes"

Watching on my Z Flip 4

Not only would it be great to get peripheral vision in non-VR games, but I really want to see a foldable, GPS map. Something to fit in a pocket rather than mounted. Flexible displays don't mean that they can be creased, though, so that would probably come a bit later. Rolling it up would work, though.

you can create a old fasion books (with pages) with electronic pages and add live animation to it.

I think the flexible displays need a form factor to adhere to. And nobody has thought of form factor yet. And flexible (non-breaking) display would be great even in a typical smartphone. It would make the device thinner than current gen and we could have easily replaceable glass overlays for when the device is dropped and to prevent scratching the plastic surface from our fingers.

They are here. iPhone 6

That flexible curved big inch TV at 2:13 looks immersive. A link to its specifics would be interesting

masterchief helmet with integrated displays.. for stuff like motorcylels , or airsoft or even for military use with an overlay from termic camps and night vission .

Watching on my Galaxy z fold 3... Lol

we don't need flexible displays neither do we need thin displays, phones ect they are already thin enough what we really need is better batteries and faster computers.

it's nice to have different paths to the same goal. with augmented reality, hopefully there won't be any need for external apparati

the best thing about my phone is i can press a few buttons in it and i can speak to people or i can press loads of buttons and send them a message. thats all i ever want or need from a phone

I CAN FIT MY FLATSCREEN IN MY POCKET....................NO MORE SMARTPHONE NEEDED

100% smartwatch

Could these not be used to replace phone screens? So they don't break

where can I get a flexible display commercially? Does anyone know?

I like my screens like my lolis.

Why would one want one in say a phone? PCB's aren't flexible, batteries arent't flexible. Not by design at least. Where are you going to unroll it? Would it require some sort of "scaffolding" to stay in shape when rolled out? I just don't see the use for it. The moment's when I can sit down with my phone and comfortably use a big floppy peice of plastic as a screen are close to none. And phines by the way are fragile as they are. Would a foldable/rollable display last a year of normal use? As the girl in the intro is using it for example - who the heck would use it like that?! And where is the actual device? No this, in mobile use, is as practical as those transparant displays that we just had to get to work a while ago.

its good to see this replacing those glassy screens that cracks

flexible, foldable screens r very impressive. everyone should welcome new technology. it revolutionise the internal decoration field also. but l think will boost in next 10 yrs

The fckn edge on a samsung phone and curved tvs is all they came up with. So sad

wish the world focus on science than war

I've heard your outro song before and have been looking for it for ages what is it?

The last one was super cool...bending the display to make a curved screen and gaming on it....gone are the days of triple monitors to create immersive experience...

The true phablet. it has a 5 inch screen when folded, but can stretch out into a 10 inch tablet when needed.

Why would anyone want this?

Do these need added back lighting?

So how many would it take to wrap a "car" in this? is there a minimum order?

flexible displays are useless gimmick but transparent oled are going to be amazing and will be everywhere if they get the price down enough. Can't wait for a custom size stick it to your window toled curtain with changeable patterns.

Why do people want this? Seems like a ridiculous idea to me. I w pulls much rather prefer my devices to not flop around while I'm trying to use them Thank you very much.

a great use case is the head mounted display monitor ... not vr head set but similar.. for work... with you motion and movement around you can virtually switch to another monitor... vr headsets are not good for long time work and for people travelling or for any reason cant carry monitors , that was just an example there are many other use cases such as land surveyors

Where can I buy flexible panel? Without buying Lg tv ,just only the panel with HDMI cable at cheaper price

They have. It's called the iPhone 6 (this comment is probably not original)

i think companies should invest in a paint display i.e, a special paint you and apply anywhere that turns into a display when you supply electricity. we could paint an entire wall with it and make it a tv. that would be cool. also if anyone decides to make this i'll sue cause its my idea bitch!

They could be used in the construction industry for large blueprints. One advantage for large blueprints is that you can have many people stand around and view and point at things on the blueprint so you can communicate your ideas easily. Small screens mean that only a few people standing next to each other can show ideas at one time. Also large screens mean you have a giant bulky rigid screen to carry around. So having a large roll-able screen is the best of all worlds combined into one product. It also allows for corrections or changes to be made on the spot that are instantly relayed to everyone else without having to re print blueprints.

This will be an awesome product for all the kids that have sleep-overs. My son has a 40" smart tv and a play station that he takes with him to his sleep-overs. The same happens when his friends sleep over and bring their big monitors.