Wearable Tablet On The Sleeve? Check. Screen Rolled In A Pen? Check.
A few decades ago, it was a almost a dream to purchase a portable laptop that weighed less than 10 pounds and could fit in your backpack. During the turn of century, it was conceivable that computer devices weighing less than 6 pounds could be carried in your messenger bag. And during the last one or two years, the new netbook form factor made it easier than ever to experience mobile computing.
But how about wearing a tablet on your sleeve or having a screen rolled into a pen? That’s what Ewing, New Jersey based Universal Display is developing for the US Military using OLED technology.
OLEDs don’t need any backlighting and instead of emitting light from separate bulbs like LEDs, they emit light when an electrical current is applied between layers of thin organic films. This allows them to be super thin, flexible, and consume less power while also offering brighter and higher contrast displays.
Universal Display is obviously not the first firm to be developing these sheets of OLED since LG Philips is also in the processes of developing these flexible sheets that can be rolled.
iSuppli said shipments of OLED displays for mobile phones will increase to 178 million by 2015, up from 22.2 million this year, while DisplaySearch says 7 million of cellphones sold this year use OLED technology.
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September 20th, 2009 at 11:16 pm
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