Flexible Display (www.youtube.com)
from Kissaki@beehaw.org to technology@beehaw.org on 08 Jun 2024 06:22
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webghost0101@sopuli.xyz on 08 Jun 2024 07:40 next collapse

This channel has been uploaded vids of these screens for 8 months now. Is there some more tangible info on how these came about?

I don’t think you can diy this in a garage?

RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de on 08 Jun 2024 09:20 next collapse

Maybe just good AR and not real?

webghost0101@sopuli.xyz on 08 Jun 2024 10:01 collapse

Without additional information that seems more likely but its at least portrayed here as a real display.

It would still be a very interesting idea to rather make everything a display make everything a zero energy AR surface but then we need convenient mainstream AR wearables.

Kissaki@beehaw.org on 08 Jun 2024 11:20 collapse

Their description reads

I made a moving digital card of Blue Archive Mika using two flexible OLED displays.

As a bonus, I made it possible to switch between the ones I made in the past. Prototype

One commenter says you can buy these kinds of displays on Amazon. Another responds AliExpress. Another reply says

650 USD for just one display. Did I read that right?

So they’re not exactly inexpensive. Which is, of course, not unexpected, given it’s a new kind of product, relatively recent tech.

webghost0101@sopuli.xyz on 08 Jun 2024 11:32 collapse

Found them on amazon holy shit.

You’d think something like this would be major tech news, people have been talking about this tech for ages and a consensus for many is that it wasn’t impossible. (Look at all the crap foldable phones)

It’s objectively not cheap but it’s not expensive for such revolutionary tech.

Kissaki@beehaw.org on 08 Jun 2024 11:51 next collapse

Only 250 €? That’s not expensive/overpriced for the product. And far from the 700$ mentioned by a comment.

When I looked on DE Amazon I didn’t find any.

webghost0101@sopuli.xyz on 08 Jun 2024 12:21 collapse

Good luck with overpriced shipping :) but still for something i though was not yet possible its shockingly accessible.

Hazzia@discuss.tchncs.de on 08 Jun 2024 12:16 next collapse

Of course there aren’t any reviews (not that I’d automatically believe them, anyway). While it sounds super exciting, I’m not super willing to spend almost 300USD for unverified tech. Somebody should send link this to Gamer’s Nexus to review lol

HarryOru@lemm.ee on 08 Jun 2024 13:24 collapse

I’m not sure what you mean. Flexible OLED displays have been around for a while and foldable devices are just an example of the technology in use, but we’ve had them in consumer products way before that (phones with curved edge displays, for example). The potential for flexibility has always been intrinsic to OLED displays because they don’t need a backlight. The reason our phones don’t bend and flex like the “device” in the video isn’t because of the display, but because the battery, processors, ram, speakers, ports and all other components are not flexible and won’t be for a while. The device in the video does not include those, there is a ribbon cable coming out of the bottom connecting the two screens to the actual hardware.

webghost0101@sopuli.xyz on 08 Jun 2024 13:31 collapse

I had no idea and i thought i was relatively up to date with new gen technology. I thought the foldable phones that came out where more an experimental proof of concept of the first instance of such technology but not that whole flexible panels where possible.

Even just the fact an oled display can be this thin is completely new to me.

Blackout@kbin.run on 08 Jun 2024 10:06 next collapse

There is a massive ribbon cable coming out the bottom. He could have contracted a few samples from an OLED manufacturer or it's a component to a commercial product not available for sale.

ClassifiedPancake@discuss.tchncs.de on 08 Jun 2024 12:17 next collapse

Isn’t that the kind of display in folding phones?

jol@discuss.tchncs.de on 08 Jun 2024 15:24 collapse

We’ve been seeing this tech for 10+ years slowly progressing to the point of commercialization, and finally the release of foldable phones and curves displays.

[deleted] on 08 Jun 2024 16:50 collapse

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