The holy grail of flexible electronics is a reading device that you can roll up and stuff in your pocket. And now, thanks to Sony and E Ink, we’re almost, sort of, kinda there. If you have $US1,100 to spare.
LG recently launched the G Flex, a banana-shaped phone that makes use of a curved OLED screen, and it turns out that it’s true to it’s name: it seems to bend rather a lot.
Samsung may well be the first company to actually deliver on the endless promise that flexible displays are on the way, with a limited edition Galaxy Note 3 with a plastic OLED screen said to be in production.