Pretty much every major electronics company is dreaming of a time when they can mass produce flexible, versatile OLED screens. And as this concept video from Samsung shows, the technology is going to blow the iPad out of the water.
DuPont has excelled where no man has before – demonstrating the first OLED panels to be printed, and in under two minutes no less. Using a Dainippon Screen multi-nozzle printer they successfully created a 50-inch display.
OLEDs are known for having a kind of clinical coldness to the colour gamut (read: “blue-ish”), but a Taiwanese researcher has worked out a way to up the temperature to the point where it comes very close to simulating sunlight.
We told you flexible OLED displays were really coming now, complexity be damned, and this wearable one for your wrist is another example of why we’re totally right.
Talk of 14.1 and 31-inch OLED TVs from Samsung has been going on for some time now, but decent-sized units have not materialised on store shelves thus far. Hopefully, that will change soon as Samsung deems these new AM OLED sets “production ready.”
Making a regular OLED display is, like, hard. So you can imagine making a flexible one just totally sucks. Arizona State’s Flexible Display Centre and Universal Display Corporation have a new way to make bendy OLED screens that might make mass production possible in just a few years.
