Sony’s Flexible OLED Display

clipped from living.oneindia.in Foldable Computer And TV Screens To Be A Reality Thanks to the efforts of researchers from Sony and the Max Planck Institute, now we may soon have computers that can be folded up to be put in the pocket and televisions sets that can be bended to view Published in the New Journal of Physics, a study conducted by the researchers heralds the beginning of a technological revolution for screen displays. It demonstrates, for the first time, the possibility of bendable optically assessed organic light emitting displays, based on red or IR-A light upconversion. clipped from www.techradar.com Sony demos transparent, flexible OLED display Breakthrough for emissive displays will revolutionise portable TVs, ebooks and digital newspapers clipped from www.techradar.com clipped from www.reghardware.co.uk Sony's curved OLED Sony has gotten all bent out of shape over OLED screens and given gadget fans a sneak preview of its curved organic LED display. The screen's just 0.3mm thick clipped from www.planarembedded.com What Would You Do with a See-through Display? clipped from machinesthatgobing.com Sony’s flexible 11-inch OLED display flaunted at CEATEC clipped from uk.youtube.com

The ICON A5: A Foldable Plane

An expensive toy for the weekend aviator: The ICON A5, just launced by Icon Aircraft, is a foldable sport plane that can be stored in a home garage and loaded on a trailer to the water or a runway to launch.

clipped from www.popsci.com A New Foldable Flyer The Icon A5 is user-friendly plane made for land, air, water—and your driveway clipped from www.popularmechanics.com Loaded with features like folding wings (so you can keep it in your garage) and seat belt-like parachutes (so you can ease the whole thing down to the ground), ICON Aircraft’s new light sport airplane (LSA), dubbed the A5, might just be the ultimate joyride. clipped from youtube.com ICON Aircraft launch clipped from www.iconaircraft.com Built to be safe, fun, and affordable… - 1,320 pounds maximum takeoff weight (1,430 pounds for seaplanes) - Maximum airspeed of 120 knots (138 mph) - Maximum two-person seating capacity (pilot + passenger) - Single, reciprocating engine - Fixed or ground-adjustable propeller - Non-pressurized cabin - Fixed landing gear (retractable gear allowed for seaplanes) - Maximum stalling speed of 45 knots (52 mph) clipped from www.iconaircraft.com It’s flying pure and simple with fewer complexities clipped from www.iconaircraft.com Learning to fly is now a quick and easy five-step process. clipped from www.iconaircraft.com The beginning of the Sport Flying Revolution ... View Images clipped from www.iconaircraft.com Estimated Price: $139,000 USD

Foldable and stretchable circuits

About a new type of ultra-thin integrated circuits that can operate during deformations without a reduction in electrical performance.

clipped from www.telegraph.co.uk Circuit boards that bend and stretch created Scientists have created ultra-thin electronic circuit boards that can be bent, stretched and folded. The new component boards could prove useful in wearable health monitors, surgical gloves and other applications in which they can be wrapped into unusual shapes such as body parts, aircraft wings or fuselages. clipped from www.physorg.com Foldable and stretchable, silicon circuits conform to many shapes Circuit diagram (top frame) and optical images of a stretchable, "wavy" silicon ring oscillator circuit on a rubber substrate, in the "as fabricated" flat state (top micrograph) and in moderate and high states of biaxial compression (middle and bottom micrographs, respectively). Photo courtesy John Rogers clipped from www.youtube.com clipped from www.news.uiuc.edu Mechanically stretchable, "wavy" silicon integrated circuit on a rubber substrate. Photo courtesy John Rogers clipped from www.mse.uiuc.edu John Rogers

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Motorola -- Rollable Phone

A recently published patent filing by Motorola describes a cellphone technology that could allow the display to fold or roll away. This will allow in future the design of smaller and still usable phones.

clipped from www.unwiredview.com Foldable/ rollable phone from Motorola The design of the mobile phones is always a fight between two opposite objectives - portability and usability. The more small and portable the device becomes, the less usable the user interface can be. Well. Motorola has an interesting idea what to do about that. In a patent application “User Interface System” it describes a concept of mobile phone with rollable display and/or keyboard. clipped from appft1.uspto.gov Abstract A user interface system (102) for a portable electronic device (100) is disclosed. The user interface system includes an interface (202) that is made of a flexible material and has an active position and an inactive position. The interface is coupled with a reservoir (204). The reservoir is used for storing electrorheological fluid (206). The user interface system also includes a source (208) that is coupled to the reservoir. The source is used for applying an electric field to the electrorheological fluid when the interface is in the active position.

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