Comments on: Samsung unveils largest flexible LCD

Here's an LCD screen you can curl up. It's made of plastic rather than glass.

[David Keenan]

flexible screen TV

I can't think of a time, since we got our first TV in 1951, that I have
felt a need to bend the screen...

Imagine the possibilities

Think about those portable movie screens that people use for
projecting movies, slideshows, etc. Now imagine this technology
where that screen is actual screen and not something that's
projected onto. A large screen like this could be rolled up out of
the way, out of sight until it's needed. All of the circuitry could be
contained within the compartment that the screen comes out of.

[dargon19888]

This is an excellent example...

Of government support of High Tech manufacturing by helping to fund this research.
(Too bad we're stuck with Bozos like Gore who laud that they helped to create the internet.)

On a more serious note, its the intelligent funding of research that has credible commercial applications that will drive our economies.

To the point of the other poster. No, you wouldn't "flex" an old TV, but you may want to have a video device that you could roll up in to a scroll.
Imagine a GPS Map that you could pull out of your pack and unscroll it which will show you your current position ..... you get the idea. Or a smaller screen for portable video phones ...

Go Samsung!

Good job!

[dargon19888]

Now if they can only...

Go to an 8x11" display, with a touchable membrane...
I'm sure that there's a real potential for some DARPA funds for that project ...

[Stez]

Very nice

I'm sure DARPA will be working feverishly to adapt this technology for the battlefield.

But for me, it's interesting because I'm a hiker. If it could, say, mix the qualities of GPS and Google Earth, and provide myself with a transparent, bendable screen that I could carry in my backpack, and unfurl and frame against real landscape to get my bearings... yes, that would be excellent. *rubbing hands together*

Nicely done, Samsung.

[triexel]

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so does that mean we can have lcd books? weird....

[shadowself]

Why? Here's why...

Think of making presentations on business trips. Now, if you go to a site without a decent A/V setup you need to travel with 3 things: laptop, projector and screen. Add to this bundle a suitcase and briefcase and you are over the limit for number of items you can check/carry on for some airlines.

With a roll up screen you could realistically carry a screen that is in a 4 foot long tube with a self contained set of "feet" for to have it stand up when it is unrolled. If it displays a true 1080p HDTV format then you have the equivalent of a 98 inch (diagonal) screen.

Thus in order to do a very nice presentation all you need to take is this monitor/screen rolled up and a laptop.

Quite true, this kind of resolution and size are several years off, but something of this nature IS coming eventually.

While eliminating the projector might not seem like much to many people, for those road warriors who are going to do presentations at sites without nice A/V setups this could be a gift from the gods.