Sony and the Max Planck Institute in Germany have developed a flexible, transparent OLED display that could lead to screens being integrated into clothing and other applications that need to bend, such as curved surfaces or rollable digital newspapers.
OLEDs, or Organic Light-Emitting Diodes, are used to create displays that are more flexible than traditional LCDs, need less battery power, and, in this instance, are see-through, allowing their images to be seen from all kinds of angles.
Though we’re probably a little far off from it – batteries need to improve and the other hardware would need to be lighter and more flexible – the idea of clothes that are connected to the Internet and display frequently updated content on a flexible OLED display is kind of neat. Or, for those interested in fashion, perhaps kind of horrifying. Still, it could be where we’re heading.
On InformationAppliance: OLED Display Could Add Screens to Clothes, Curves | Digital Picture Frames wrote at October 30th, 2008 at 11:32 am
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