Technology Is Almost There
LG shows off 65-inch OLED TV that rolls up at CES
LG has put a significant amount of resources into their flexible displays. Last year it was announced that they will be investing USD$1.7 Billion to produce flexible OLED phone screens. And at CES 2018, they showed off their rollable TV screen.
LG has been working on this for years, it was back in CES 2013, that they demonstrated their first curved OLED display screen. OLED (organic light emitting diodes) themselves being invented all the way back in 1987 by Eastman Kodak Company.
OLED diode technology was invented by researchers at the Eastman Kodak company in 1987. Chemists, Ching W Tang and Steven Van Slyke were the principal inventors. In June of 2001, Van Slyke and Tang received an Industrial Innovation Award from the American Chemical Society for their work with organic light-emitting diodes
With the ability to make flexible OLEDs created in the early 2000's.
In the early 2000s, researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and the Department of Energy invented two technologies necessary to make flexible OLEDs: first, Flexible Glass an engineered substrate that provides a flexible surface, and second, a Barix thin film coating that protects a flexible display from harmful air and moisture.
It takes a while before technology starts to see fruits from experiments.
But, like I said, it is almost there. If you see the video from the 2018 CES, you will notice the large box that the TV is rolling out of. The reason for this is two-fold, while the screen is rollable there are limits to how tightly it can be rolled. And, the TV still needs brain power and connections to light up those thousands of OLEDs.
Possibly advances in graphene could solve both of these issues and the box that holds the TV would be less than 1/2 the size it is now.
The end goal is something like the "Global" device used in the Sci-Fi show Earth : Final Conflict(TV Series 1997–2002). The device was a smart phone, before most people knew what a smart phone was. The best part of the device was, besides being shatter proof, it could roll up into a case and come out for video communication or even further for extra information during the call. I think the screen could also be semi-transparent as well.
Maybe in about 5-10 years we can have an actual phone that is no bigger than a large pocket pen.
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I would appreciate a 10 inch mobile phone that would roll up in my pocket :D
In my view of IoT, it should just be a dumb terminal and the brains could be in another module which would be the Central Brain. Your phone would just be an ear wearable with the controls for dialing either by voice or another input device. The dumb terminal would display what it needed to display, whether that was a video feed from your phone call or from another connected IoT device.
Maybe in about 5-10 years we can have an actual phone that is no bigger than a large pocket pen
They're too damn small NOW.
so small that I have a very hard time using them.
my fingers are too big...and I'm getting more clumsy as I get old.
The screen would roll out and be a touch screen, so you can have big numbers for your fat fingers.