Ever want to bend your tv screen ?

[Homerduff]

..Now its possible !



Sony unveiled what is billed as the world's first flexible, full-color OLED display built on organic thin-film transistor (TFT) technology. The 2.5-inch prototype display supports 16.8 million colors at a 120 x 160 pixel resolution, is 0.3 mm thick and weighs 1.5 grams.

I wouldnt mind having digital wallpaper in my room..

 

[Sukotto]

With this technology one will soon be able to carry an entire lap top in their pocket with a decent size screen.

Unfold or unroll your screen, plug in that and your fold-up key board to your cell phone or some other tech piece.

 

[nice gaijin]

I've already drawn out several product ideas for this technology. Good to know that science is starting to catch up with science fiction.

 

[Sukotto]

But does this stuff come with a cost?
Environmental?
Who has to mine the ores to give us ever more complex machines
and under what conditions?
Will new machines put more people out of work?
etc....

 

[Goldiegirl]

I prefer to see the positive side of new technology, right or wrong. I think it's really awesome. Lugging my laptop through airports is a pain, it would be great to just fold it up and go!

 

[nice gaijin]

OLED technology consumes less power while being brighter and sharper than current display systems. This is good tech. Also, the thinner display means less materials used in its production.

And if a flexible computer screen threatens your job, you might want to rethink careers.

 

[Sukotto]

Sumimasen for being slightly pesimistic. Somebody's gotta do it, right?
I mean, everyone once thought nuclear energy technology was going to bring the brightest of tomorows. er, well...or hope it won't?

But that was before the dangerousness of radiation was widely known.
Now it is debated whether it should be used at all, with no winning?

Keeping with the nuke example,
a lot or uranium in the US has turned out to be on indigenous land, or what's left of it; i.e. the concentration camps(I've met some people living there use this exact phrase, and historically speaking, it is accurate)...reservations.
So, what if the people of these Sovereign Nations do not want this stuff taken out of the ground?
There has been uranium mined from Native lands, employing Natives, somewhere in New Mexico I think. Mining itself does release radiation and many Natives were poisoned as a result of this.
Today there are better technologies to protect miners if a corporation can be trusted (to use them).

Or say the an ore is somewhere in Africa.
Is the dictator being propped up by some multinational corporation
or the removal of people living above the ore swepted away by gun point?
(such as Nigeria's dictator by Shell directly to kill poet Ken Saro-Wiwa and 7 other environmental activists or the case of Chevron


I'm just saying
if we live in the "global 'free' market", we should try to be aware that things
do not just fall from the sky.
Today (legal entities called) corporations have more power than governments.
That is how things like Shell in Nigeria happen and powerful governments let their creations (corporations are a creature of the law that allow for their very existance) roam with little law restraint.



I think I saw this type of thing in a conveniance store window in Shinjuku, Tokyo in 2003. It was within the glass or plastic window and I'm pretty sure it was not projected. There was no visable frame for the video area, so I am assuming it was a very thin layer of something.

 

[Goldiegirl]

I am amazed at your ability Sukotto for turning everything you read into a rant about the earth, nuclear weapons, native american issues, evil corporations taking over the world, African problems, pollution. Jeez I never a flexible screen could have so much power.

 

[nice gaijin]

Since you brought up nuclear power, there are also technologies now that ensure against meltdowns and use less dangerous materials than traditional reactors (please do a search for "pebble bed reactor"). But i'll happily join you in your dissillusionment in the face of the negative impacts that corporations have on the planet. A good example is the one I just brought up: despite being a safer way to generate power, the stigma attached to the term "nuclear power" along with the high cost of developing plants has essentially left this relatively clean energy source stagnant.

 

[Sukotto]

I am amazed at your ability Sukotto for turning everything you read into a rant

Thank you kindly, that I amazed you. At the same time, there is some guilt of hijacking the thread.

evil corporations taking over the world,

bah. I know. I am such a loser. (not being facetious, btw) If I was not, I would not be in front of this screen for so long. My way of participating in American Idle?
Not "taking over", since these things already have.
So much so, they have us convinced these things are people,
that they are natural, (and maybe if you did not agree with corporations you were a commie or something)
David C Korten wrote a book in 1995 "When Corporations Rule the World".
Of course he was joking with the title, even then, using the word "when".

NUKES
Melt-downs are one thing.

It's the idea of storage which is insane.



Maybe there will be transparent screens for people's eye glasses someday,
then those stock brokers can even trade stocks while using the restroom.

 

[RevengeBabyYeah]

Sukatto i think it's great you have such a wide outlook.
But hell I'm just a mindless consumer with a taste for expensive gadgets
homerduff- thanks for the link, can't wait for all the new oppurtunities this could offer. Love your username btw