Sony Showcases 13.3" Color, Flexible LCD
LCDs are nice and all, but are they the future? Probably not. Sony is
pushing towards a future filled with glasses-free 3D, and one that's
flexible. At the SID Display Week conference this week in California,
the company revealed a new flexible color e-paper display, which is one
of the thinnest (and largest, by screen size) flexible displays that we
have seen. It's a 13.3" panel, and one that bends.
Bending displays could have all sorts of uses; automobiles, advertising, and funky tablet form factors of the future. The panel had a 1200x800 screen resolution, a reflectance of 10% and a contrast ratio higher than 100,000:1. Of course, a trade show demo doesn't mean that a commercial version is around the corner or anything, but it's still pretty amazing to see that something like this is alive in the labs. One day, one day...
Bending displays could have all sorts of uses; automobiles, advertising, and funky tablet form factors of the future. The panel had a 1200x800 screen resolution, a reflectance of 10% and a contrast ratio higher than 100,000:1. Of course, a trade show demo doesn't mean that a commercial version is around the corner or anything, but it's still pretty amazing to see that something like this is alive in the labs. One day, one day...
