Sony's Razor-Thin TV Screen

Posted on May 26, 2007

Sony has created a new ultra-thin tv screen just 0.3 millimetres thick. The screen is bendable and could be dropped without the screen breaking. The thin screen plays color video. A Daily Mail article says the screen is thin enough to be used on a t-shirt.

The display combines Sony's organic thin film transistor, or TFT, technology, which is required to make flexible displays, with another kind of technology called organic electroluminescent display, it said.
The latter technology is not as widespread for gadgets as the two main display technologies now on the market - liquid crystal displays and plasma display panels.
Although flat-panel TVs are getting slimmer, a display that's so thin it bends in a human hand marks a breakthrough.
Sony said plans for a commercial product using the technology were still undecided.
"In the future, it could get wrapped around a lamppost or a person's wrist, even worn as clothing," said Sony spokesman Chisato Kitsukawa. "Perhaps it can be put up like wallpaper."

If it is thin enough other ideas could be video greeting cards or brochures and catalogs than contain video. Some day video paper may even be printable from a personal home printer. Here is a video of Sony's thin screen.

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