A flexible computer screen — one that you can roll up and stick in your pocket — is coming closer to reality.
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Thin,
flexible screens such as the one showcased by LG could allow the creation of newspapers that change daily, display video like a tablet
computer, but that can still be rolled up and put in your pocket.
HP Labs is developing a prototype for a
flexible screen that could be used in products from
computers to smart phones to e-books.
Researchers have been trying for years to develop
flexible electronic displays, a breakthrough that would bring us tablet
computers that fold and roll up and clothing with stretchable video
screens embedded in the fabric.
The results are encouraging for Aspuru - Guzik, who, in collaboration with
computer giant IBM, is using the same computational tools to
screen some 3.5 million organic molecules in the search for a new generation of
flexible and lightweight solar cells.
Flexible, Bendable Electronics Imagine a
computer screen that could be bent, folded in half, and even crumpled like a sheet of newspaper, without affecting its function in the slightest.
Like today's LCD
screens, they display images generated by a
computer, but they are as thin,
flexible, portable and crisply readable as paper.
Roll - up
computer screens and other
flexible electronics are getting closer to reality as scientists improve upon a growing number of components that can bend and stretch.
Computer screening is even less
flexible, based on keyword matches.