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Found this vid on Fast Com­pany. Totally amaz­ing. Another tech­no­log­i­cal leap for com­pact, mobile devices. The thin­ner the dis­play envi­ron­ment the thin­ner the device. This even illus­trates the pos­si­bil­ity of unrolling a dis­play which has been tucked away. It’s not prime­time yet, but… Pretty excit­ing stuff.

from Fast Company:

The tech­nol­ogy hinges on a new kind of organic thin-film tran­sis­tor (OTFT) based on a new semi­con­duct­ing mate­r­ial that has eight times the cur­rent mod­u­la­tion rate of exist­ing OTFTs. This makes the dis­play pow­er­ful, but there’s at least one more clever trick–instead of rely­ing on dri­ving elec­tron­ics based on con­ven­tional solid chips in their famil­iar lit­tle black plas­tic pack­ages, Sony’s built all the dis­play dri­ver tech out of OTFTs them­selves, and inte­grated them into the actual panel the dis­play itself is made on. This is crafted from a super-thin (20 micron-thick) sub­strate, mak­ing it flex­i­ble enough to be repeat­edly rolled around a tube of diam­e­ter of just 4mm, as well as being stretched.