{"id":579516,"date":"2010-05-26T06:21:55","date_gmt":"2010-05-26T10:21:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/?p=159755"},"modified":"2010-05-26T06:21:55","modified_gmt":"2010-05-26T10:21:55","slug":"video-sony%e2%80%99s-new-super-thin-oled-display-wraps-around-a-pencil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/579516","title":{"rendered":"Video: Sony\u2019s new, super-thin OLED display wraps around a pencil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-159759\" href=\"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/2010\/05\/26\/video-sonys-new-super-thin-oled-display-wraps-around-a-pencil\/sony_oled\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-159759\" title=\"sony_oled\" src=\"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/sony_oled-620x363.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"363\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/tag\/oled\/\">OLEDs<\/a>, which are said to lead the next wave of innovation in the TV space (after back-lit LCDs and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/tag\/3d\/\">3D<\/a> displays), come with plenty of advantages: they produce gorgeous images, they are self-luminous, light, and they&#8217;re <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/2009\/10\/07\/sony-flexible-oled-display-on-display-at-ceatec\/\">flexible<\/a> &#8211; very flexible. Case in point: a super-thin, Sony-made 4.1-inch OLED that actually wraps around a pencil,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sony.net\/SonyInfo\/News\/Press\/201005\/10-070E\/index.html\">shown<\/a> today in Japan.<\/p>\n<p>The display is just 80\u03bcm thick, offers 432 x 240 resolution (121 ppi), a contrast ratio of around 1,000:1, and produces 100 cd\/m2 brightness. Sony says the OLED can be wrapped around a pencil with just a 4mm radius. And the OLED can actually continue to display images and video while being rolled up, which is (according to Sony) a world&#8217;s first.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-159760\" href=\"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/2010\/05\/26\/video-sonys-new-super-thin-oled-display-wraps-around-a-pencil\/sony_oled_2\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-159760\" title=\"sony_oled_2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/sony_oled_2-620x363.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"363\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, the OLED is just a prototype, but those of you who attend the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sid.org\/\">SID event<\/a> in Seattle this week will be able to see the screen in action. All the others can drool over the display in the short (but pretty cool) video embedded below.<\/p>\n<p><object id=\"aexternal\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"586\" height=\"400\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"flashVars\" value=\"config=\/video3\/201005\/10-0526\/config.xml&amp;lang=en\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.sony.co.jp\/video3\/player.swf?lang=en\" \/><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"config=\/video3\/201005\/10-0526\/config.xml&amp;lang=en\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed id=\"aexternal\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"586\" height=\"400\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sony.co.jp\/video3\/player.swf?lang=en\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" flashvars=\"config=\/video3\/201005\/10-0526\/config.xml&amp;lang=en\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/_LNQawtCUlwg6whLOijlE3icR2A\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/_LNQawtCUlwg6whLOijlE3icR2A\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/_LNQawtCUlwg6whLOijlE3icR2A\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/_LNQawtCUlwg6whLOijlE3icR2A\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?a=jmbhKgeo3lk:aKnp0eSZxdg:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?i=jmbhKgeo3lk:aKnp0eSZxdg:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?a=jmbhKgeo3lk:aKnp0eSZxdg:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?i=jmbhKgeo3lk:aKnp0eSZxdg:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?a=jmbhKgeo3lk:aKnp0eSZxdg:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OLEDs, which are said to lead the next wave of innovation in the TV space (after back-lit LCDs and 3D displays), come with plenty of advantages: they produce gorgeous images, they are self-luminous, light, and they&#8217;re flexible &#8211; very flexible. Case in point: a super-thin, Sony-made 4.1-inch OLED that actually wraps around a pencil,\u00a0shown today [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3524,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-579516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3524"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=579516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}