Ooh, this is just what we need to win decisively in Iraq.

YES! Now I can wipe my arse with Nancy Pelosi!

Now there's a use I can get behind. :p

So how much money are we betting it catches on fire? Please don't incorporate the display on T-Shirts otherwise you will truly have "people on fire"

Actually, that's a point.
How does this thing get its power?

This tech has been up-and-coming for a while now: it would be great if someone actually got it off the ground and started mass-marketing. Who's better at marketing than Sony? (other than Microsoft ;))

This demo is a little low on the resolution (160x120) and has some imperfections, but really shows the potential of the technology. I'm only thinking 'small', but what I'd really want to buy is one of Sony's OLED fixed screens: either for PC use or TV. Question remains as the whether Sony can create high-resolution screens with OLED yet, or whether they'll attack the low-res TV market first.

What about LCD spray or paint?
http://physicsweb.org/articles/news/6/5/2/1

Or this one

http://www.geckoandfly.c...gphilips-paper-thin-lcd/

ooh! An LCD tattoo comes to mind!

Everyone is talking MP3 and Cellphones.. How about Entire Walls covered in this stuff... Even if the response time is slow - It would be amazing for Full walls with shifting wallpapers and such.

Depending how quickly it updates it might be useful for a HUD.

I never thought I'd say this but hats off to Sony. That is absolutely amazing.

Sony isn't really one company. For the people who hate Sony, I generally ask "Which division?".

A very small example - Sony Music sells CDs, which their electronics branch can copy with their burning technology. Do you think their music branch likes that?

Many branches are so diverse that they have been in competition with each other for some decades now.

This will be revolutionary for mobile devices if Sony chooses to license the technology. Very, very cool.

You know me, I'm a critic of just about everyone and everything... and I think this is brilliant.

I can't(sic) wait for the Tshirts...

smarterthanyou has a good point below--LCD's break easily enough, these "paper-thin" displays will break easily. Just another sony innovation that is awesome on paper (pardon the pun), but sucks in reality.

did you read it or just read the comments and make up an opinon?
"Sony researchers say that the screen is virtually unbreakable, and the elasticity of the device is what makes it so innovative."
yea i guess it'll crack if winds hits it... foolish sony with trying to be innovative... new formats.. new hardware.. what are they thinking?

you're a total noob. they were bending the entire screen you idiot. Also, what sony products do you think sucked? i think sony is amazing

Sure. The virtually unbreakable part I do find hard to believe, but it can still be scratched easily I'd imagine.

If it's paper-thin, it'll break easily. Not even silk is hard to break when it's 0.01 inches thick.

i feel quite bad for your limited imagination for what cool things such technology could be used... displays, monitors, tvs,... come one is that really all you can come up with? thing big! what about having all of your car exterior (what is normally painted) coved with such a display layer. or why stop by a small car, why not the full house or even bigger, the full office building... :D some cool and "live" design ideas come in to my mind... ;)

See my comment.

Make stuff invisible.

yes, that is an more exciting idea indeed, personally however i don't know how this could be done. having some thin to display a picture is one thing, but how would you get the exact picture of the environment behind it. ok with an camera, of course :) but IMO that would still not be very realistic or at least you would get an good "invisible" effect only from one angle (straight forward). IMO the big problem here is to get different picture from different point of view (angle) and i have some doubts that this is possible to do.

Everything's possible (tm)

There really may be no limit to what this can be used for. Once the tech is perfected it could replace tv altogether. Forget have a projector like some do. But give it a few to many years to get the ball rolling.

Wouldn't an OLED screen scratch easier than LCD?

Yeah I think this is headed for cell phones. How many people do you know have cracked the screen on the phone. If they are low enough power you might also see them in those digital picture frames too.

I was thinking more of communication devices. Having a phone that the screen rolls out. Anyone remember the communication devices they used on Earth Final Conflict?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7QbQugXy1A (It's the demonstration of it, or at least one of them)

Hang on, where is the Sony slagging??

Hehe. I thought that too.
It's far too funny coming from you though.

Just because a lot of people hate the PS3 and the Blu-ray crap attached to it, doesn't mean they hate EVERYTHING Sony makes. Stop trying to make it seem like you either have to hate everything about Sony or you have to be a Sony cheerleader. There *is* a middle ground.

Umm....Looks like a cool technology. I will be interested to see what it can do.

Not everybody is a rabid fanboy like you Steve. I judge by the product not the company.

Steve, Go over and hang out with DaveBG over at blu-ray.com. The posts he makes over there are worse than the ones he makes here. You would fit in perfectly over there.

refresh?

response time??

Hello???

There's very little news here, folks.

Must...have....more....info....

0.254mm

Goodness.

We could be seeing the whole invisible man thing soon, with projections of what's behind the person on the front of their clothes.

/glee

omfg

wow that could be used in the implementation of close to razor thing laptops .... take that apple.

laptops? try mp3 players. its a 2.5" display. this would be far more useful for something you'd put in your pocket that you drop a lot. iphone ready? would be super cool to have an even thinner iphone or video ipod width a larger display. maybe they made it to shrink their next gen PSP. who knows. At that size and for the durability comments, I don't think laptops are the intended application, but more so the pocket sized gizmos of tomorrow

I can see this for those applications, initially. Then they'd end up replacing regular full-sized LCD screens, I'm sure. (assuming nothing else is on its way) Of course that depends on power usage and life of the screen, among other things that PC_Tool said.

We kind of also have to see how fast they can update ... if it's something that takes three seconds to realign the pixels, then it's not going to be the optimal item for anything but MP3 players/the like. ... laptops would be absolutely out of the question -- unless it's a laptop that is ONLY for business items.

Hence my "along with the other things PC_Tool said", those being: "refresh?; response time??"

One thing to keep in mind for these displays is that they are NEW.. as they refine them, and go into 2nd gen and 3rd the refresh rates will increase, and the dpi on them will increase.. this is something to watch closely, as 1st gen of pretty much ANYTHING is the "Look at me!" stage..

Already there mate....

http://www.businessweek....7/tc20070523_272039.htm

the refresh rates will increase, and the dpi on them will increase..

Increase from what???

That's my point. We don't even know what it is yet on these things. Ya know, the kind of info that would make this a news story instead of a PR release.