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Video Shows Cool Samsung Transparent, Flexible Screen

We've seen a lot of ideas that never really got to turn into reality, because they were too far-fetched, but Samsung's flexible 3D AMOLED Display might just manage to avoid the limbo of great but impossible ideas. Sure, the bits about holographic projection are a bit much, but the rest of the video actuall...

5 December 2011
08:34 GMT

Graphene Makes the News Again, Stretches

Continuing with the string of graphene research breakthroughs, some researchers from Korea discovered a way to make the carbon-based material stretch when part of a transistor. Graphene is not the first material that researchers tried to use in making stretchable, transparent electronic components. This didn'...

28 October 2011
14:01 GMT

[UPDATE]Flexible Color E-Paper Screen Revealed by Sony

Sony may be going through a really tough time with all the security breaches, but it looks like it hasn't allowed that to affect its other business outlets much, with its exhibition during the SID Display Week having been actually solid.E Ink may have said that it has no plans to release any new e-paper display...

20 May 2011
06:01 GMT

Paper Computer Demonstrated on Video, E-Paper Works on Cloth

In their search for means of making electronics even more compact, or part of one's very attire, it seems that one well known and one less known IT entity have each provided demonstrative videos of some interesting concepts. The thing about some display technologies is that they are flexible, thin and power-ef...

6 May 2011
05:55 GMT

Scientists Create First Bendable, Organic Microprocessor

Normally, a new sort of processor wouldn't be that big a research milestone if it didn't have superior processing capabilities to those of today, but the first even organic microprocessor bypassed this requirement by virtue of its flexibility. Usually, when speaking of an IT product and saying it is flexi...

26 February 2011
04:25 GMT

Samsung Demos 4.5-Inch Flexible AMOLED Panel

It seems that Samsung is quite eager to contribute to the evolution of the display industry by opening up new design possibilities, perhaps even new device types, through such projects as flexible displays, the latest of which being apparently invented with smartphones in mind.The idea of flexible displays, while ha...

5 November 2010
06:04 GMT

Sony Working on Flexible E-Paper

E-readers are growing in sales by the day, as is evident from how the Amazon Kindle and its rivals have been selling by the thousands, and Sony seeks to gain an edge in the competition by revealing a flexible e-paper.E-paper can be said to almost hold a monopoly over e-readers, even despite some companies' atte...

16 September 2010
05:53 GMT

LG Preps 19-Inch Flexible E-Paper and 9.7-Inch Color Screen

Even though some companies may decide e-paper is not worth their time and resources, LG apparently has the other idea, as it is not only going to keep manufacturing them, but also intends to unleash two fairly innovative ones, namely a 9.7-inch color screen and a 19-inch flexible one.E-paper is the type of display u...

27 August 2010
02:54 GMT

Flexible Toshiba LCD Zooms In When Bent

Touch input has become quite widespread, especially on the consumer electronics front, where handsets and smarpthones, among other things, often forgo a keyboard completely. Even so, however, end-users and manufacturers alike crave for an even more direct control method, which is why various types of display concept...

2 June 2010
06:00 GMT

Flexible Display Sheet from HP Demoed on Video

Display technologies have been evolving at the same pace as every other piece of hardware up there, so it's not surprising to see newer and more unusual concepts being shown off by this or that hardware maker. ASUS, for instance, is already experimenting with a design based on flexible screens, the Waveface, a ...

20 March 2010
04:44 GMT

LG Develops A3-Sized, Flexible E-Paper

With the e-reader market growing at a rapid pace, showing consumers that reading is still one of the preferred activities of end-users worldwide, e-reading-related products have begun to emerge one after another. However, so far, the only offerings made have been new e-readers or new types of e-paper, with the form f...

15 January 2010
08:55 GMT

Flexible and Transparent Phones Might Be Possible

Some time ago, an idea that seemed so crazy that almost no one gave it any chance, surfaced on the Web. This idea represented a concept phone, called Nokia Morph, which was unlike anything anyone had ever seen, and probably unlike anything most of us could have imagined in a lifetime.In any case, even if the idea was...

11 December 2008
03:31 GMT

The Skype-Enabled Flexible Keyboard Is Now Available

How many of you have wanted to acquire a keyboard that you can just keep in your back pocket? I'm talking about a full-sized keyboard which you can roll up and take with you wherever you go. One such keyboard is now available for purchase at Brando and, for only $40 a pop, you too can have one. The black keyboar...

21 May 2008
08:17 GMT

Stretchable Silicon Circuits Promise Gadgeds in Many Shapes

The new foldable integrated silicon circuits developed at the University of Illinois could turn the brittle electronic devices we use today into elastic silicon and plastic circuits only 1.5 micrometers thick, that can absorb the mechanical stress applied on them without suffering any damage. The inventor of the devi...

28 March 2008
09:28 GMT

US Company Prints Out Solar Cell Through Inkjet Printer!

Not much to say about solar cells and solar panels these days. Researchers are still working on enhancing the light-electric energy conversion rates, struggling to lower fabrication costs, making solar cells flexible... What am I talking about?? These guys are freaking geniuses! I mean they've made solar cells w...

7 March 2008
07:00 GMT

Bend Your Phone Like Never Before

Bending, folding and even sitting on your phone might turn out to be for some people more enjoyable than they would think. No more taking care of the fragile technology, but simply throwing it around like you would with any old piece of paper. That's what Roman Kriheli's concept forwards.Having hard cased m...

14 August 2007
10:44 GMT

Flexible, Washable Electronics Made with Elastic Circuit Connectors

Flexible electronics, also known as flex circuits or flex circuit boards, represent a technology for building electronic circuits by depositing electronic devices on flexible substrates such as plastic or even organic materials.A new generation of flexible circuit connectors could produce a new class of electronic ap...

11 July 2007
11:11 GMT

New Display Challenges Existing LCDs

The electronics industry is involved in a continuous race to make today's TV screens and cell phones more efficient, cheaper and of a higher quality. LCDs are one of the most popular types of commercially available displays, but a newcomer is about to challenge their position.Weijia Wen and colleagues at the Ho...

6 July 2007
05:52 GMT

Flexible Display Will Soon Bring Bending Portable TVs to Market

It won't be long until people around the world will be able to enjoy their favorite book with included animation, in the form of flexible electronic displays, or e-paper. Portable TVs could eventually be carried in a pocket and rolled out when the favorite show is on.Flexible electronics, also known as flex cir...

7 June 2007
10:05 GMT

Thinnest Video Display Ever - by Sony

The electronics industry is involved in a continuous race to make today's TV screens and cell phones more efficient, cheaper and of a higher quality. The race for developing the thinnest video display ever seems to have a winner. Sony just presented a paper-thin video display that bends like paper while showing...

28 May 2007
02:49 GMT

Flexible Electronics to Be Used in Sensors and Artificial Muscles

Flexible electronics, also known as flex circuits or flex circuit boards, represent a technology for building electronic circuits by depositing electronic devices on flexible substrates such as plastic or even organic materials.Having the potential to bend, expand and manipulate electronic devices, these new types o...

3 April 2007
05:09 GMT

Flexible See-Through Battery

What happened to the good old days when a having a notebook implied also having a membership at the local gym because you were forced to carry around something that "weighed a ton", sometimes it could be considered an alternative to bodybuilding. Everything nowadays is lighter, smaller, costs less, has more power, an...

23 March 2007
12:02 GMT

A Paper-Thin Flexible Battery

The continuously advancing technology of portable electronic devices asks for more flexible batteries to power them. A Japanese team at Waseda University have developed a paper-like rechargeable battery. The battery is made of a redox-active organic polymer film roughly 200 nanometers thick and attached nitroxide rad...

20 March 2007
06:05 GMT


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