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Thursday, June 20, 2013

LG confirms flexible OLED will appear before end of year

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LG's long overdue flexible OLED display will start churning out en masse in Q4 this year, the company has confirmed.

The all-talk-no-walk technology will finally be coming to smartphones as LG Display has confirmed that we can expect to see production start towards the end of the year, further confirming that we could see the first commercial phone using the tech appear before 2013 is over.

"LG Display has completed the development of our first flexible displays. We've already shipped samples to clients including LG Electronics," the company told Korea Times in a statement.

"LG Display will mass produce flexible displays from the fourth quarter of this year."

Is that date flexible?

LG Display said that it expects to produce 12,000 sheets of the flexible OLED every month, which will be produced at the South Korean company's display complex in Paju.

LG previously said that the bendy tech would arrive before the end of 2013, and The Korea Times reiterates that the company plans to release its first flexible smartphone later this year.

However, LG is keeping mum on the specific things like resolution and which manufacturers might be using the new displays. Time to start guessing which manufacturers will be getting on board flexible OLED ship as it begins its bendy voyage.

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By: Unknown On 8:51 AM

Wednesday, June 19, 2013

LG confirms flexible OLED will appear before end of year

LG's long overdue flexible OLED display will start churning out en masse in Q4 this year, the company has confirmed.

"LG Display has completed the development of our first flexible displays. We've already shipped samples to clients including LG Electronics," the company told Korea Times in a statement.

"LG Display will mass produce flexible displays from the fourth quarter of this year."

Is that date flexible?

LG Display said that it expects to produce 12,000 sheets of the flexible OLED every month, which will be produced at the South Korean company's display complex in Paju.

LG previously said that the bendy tech would arrive before the end of 2013, and The Korea Times reiterates that the company plans to release its first flexible smartphone later this year.

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By: Unknown On 9:19 PM

Friday, February 1, 2013

Fujifilm's flexible Beat speaker diaphragm lets us roll up the rhythm

Fujifilm Beat allows for bendable speakers, lets us roll up the rhythm

While there's been no shortage of rollable displays, rollable speakers are rare -- the softness needed for a bendy design is the very thing that would usually neuter the sound. Fujifilm's new Beat diaphragm manages to reconcile those seemingly conflicting requirements. The surface depends on a polymer that stays soft when the surface is being curled or folded, but hardens when subjected to the 20Hz to 20kHz audio range we'd expect from a speaker. Piezoelectric ceramics, in turn, provide the sound itself. The Beat system doesn't have any known customers, but Fujifilm has already shown some creative possibilities such as a folding fan speaker or the portable, retractable unit shown above. If we ever see the day when we tuck a set of speakers into our pockets as neatly as we do our phones, we'll know who to thank.

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Monday, December 31, 2012

Inhabitat's Week in Green: biological concrete, flexible solar cells and the top wearable tech of 2012

Each week our friends at Inhabitat recap the week's most interesting green developments and clean tech news for us -- it's the Week in Green.

New Year's Eve is fast approaching, and workers in New York City are hard at work installing 32,256 LED lights on the Times Square New Year's Eve ball. As we close the book on 2012, Inhabitat has been reflecting on all the top clean energy and green technology stories from the past year. From news that Germany met half the country's energy needs with solar power to an Egyptian teenager who built a new quantum space propulsion system, 2012 was a big year for clean tech. To ring in the New Year we also rounded up the top green transportation and wearable technology posts, and we're inviting all our reader to vote on the stories they liked best!
Now that Christmas is behind us, it'll soon be time to start figuring out how to sustainably dispose of all those holiday decorations. In China, Christmas light recycling plants will process some 20 million pounds of Christmas lights and recycle them into useful products. In other green tech news, Spanish researchers have developed a new type of biological concrete that makes it easier to attach plants to the side of buildings to create living walls. Researchers at Wake Forest University recently developed a new type of light bulb that uses field-induced polymer electroluminescent technology to create a soft white, full spectrum light that could last a decade. And to help keep your heating bill low, we've rounded up the top six gadgets for the home to help you go green this winter.
In green transportation news, China unveiled the world's longest high-speed rail line this week. The 1,428-mile railway connects Beijing with Guangzhou, halving the travel time between the two cities. A bike called the ReCycle became the world's first 100 percent recycled bike to hit the road, and the city of Los Angeles announced that it will soon launch the nation's second-largest bike-sharing program. The $16 million project will bring 4,000 bikes, complete with solar-powered bike stations, to downtown LA. And if you've ever dreamt of driving on pillows, your dream just got one step closer to becoming a reality: Humanix's new iSAVE electric vehicle is completely wrapped in air-filled cushions which are meant to soften the blow between the vehicle and anything it comes into contact with.
In what could prove to be a major breakthrough for solar technology, engineers at Stanford University have successfully fabricated thin, flexible solar cells that are able to be peeled and attached to almost any surface. California recently set a record for winter solar power generation, almost reaching the previous record set this summer of just over 1 gigawatt of solar energy. And in one of the best Christmas gifts ever, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced on Christmas Eve that an additional $250 million will be made available for renewable energy projects across the state.
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By: Dilusha On 4:44 PM

Saturday, December 22, 2012

Samsung to offer CES demo of flexible smartphone, HDTV displays

Forget the next Galaxy smartphone - Samsung has other treats in store for CES 2013

Your next smartphone may be able to bend to your will - literally! - thanks to flexible screen technology Samsung Display plans to show off at the Consumer Electronics Show next month.

CNET reported Thursday that the display division of Samsung Electronics will show off a pair of bendable screens which could one day reinvent how smartphones, tablets and even HDTVs are made.

Attendees at CES 2013 next month will be treated to their first glimpse of a 5.5-inch flexible display touting a 1280 x 720 HD resolution with a pixel density of 267 ppi.

Samsung Display will also use the same event in Las Vegas to unveil the technology applied to a 55-inch television set.

The impressive technology used for the screen is currently missing a touch panel and cover lens, which are considered necessary to form a modern touchscreen-enabled device.

While demonstration prototypes will indeed bend without breaking, Samsung Display was quick to note that they're not yet made to curl up into a roll.

In addition to flexible screens, Samsung is rumored to announce its next Galaxy S4 smartphone at CES 2013, along with a QWERTY-based tablet.

There are also rumblings that Samsung could debut a completely new image for its iconic brand next month, with a focus on lifestyle activities more befitting its new "global powerhouse" status.

Via CNET

Saturday, December 15, 2012

Samsung Galaxy S4 won't have flexible, unbreakable display after all

Surprise, surprise

It's one of the less surprising rumours, but according to the latest reports the Samsung Galaxy S4 won't be sporting a flexible display after all.

There have been suggestions that the Galaxy S4 would be one of the first handsets to pack Samsung's bendy screen technology, making it almost unbreakable – but it looks like we'll have to wait a little longer for that particular technological treat.

According to an unnamed Verge source "flexible screens are still a while off", adding that no Samsung Galaxy S device will sport the new display in 2013.

We already assumed that the Samsung Galaxy S4 was unlikely to make an appearance at CES 2013, and the aforementioned source also said that it won't be unveiled at the Las Vegas based show.

It's also unlikely that Samsung will announce the S4 at MWC in February, with April looking the best bet at this moment in time.

So if you've read this far down the story and have a modicum of knowledge of how this industry works you'll have learned pretty much nothing in this story: sorry.

Little is known about Samsung's next generation flagship device, but rumours seem to point towards a 5-inch full HD display, more powerful quad-core processor and a higher-res camera.

From The Verge

Saturday, November 10, 2012

Samsung drops another demo for flexible AMOLED screen

This could be how you read the paper one day

Despite repeated delays of Samsung's flexible AMOLED displays, the Korean manufacturer treated the web to another demo video of what the wobbly screens can do.

The new LEDs are made from plastic instead of glass, making them transparent and nearly indestructible.

The plastic-based tech allows the screens to be super thin, light and flexible enough to bend, roll and fold without breakage.

The new video looks like the open sequence of a sci-fi film. It shows the paper-thin touchscreens replacing newspapers, credit cards and watches.

They're also mounted on refrigerators, walls and cars. One eye-catching scene shows a tablet that's a screen attached to a pen.

Check out for yourself below:

The new footage is pretty exciting, but this hasn't been the first time Samsung has hyped its flexible screens -it's been showing the panels off for about a year.

The Korean company premiered the first demo video last December, at which time Samsung pledged these twistable LEDs would roll out sometime in 2012.

But the year only brought production setbacks.

In September, we heard reports that Samsung ran into "problems with the yield" of the displays. And just a few weeks ago, Korean news sites indicated there were further delays.

The reports indicated that Samsung needed to back burn production of the AMOLED to respond to increasing demand for glass units for the Galaxy S3 and Galaxy Note 2.

Later predictions said the wobbly technology would start appearing in products during the middle of 2013, but that's only if Samsung can sort out production problems by the end of this year.

With all the setbacks Samsung been a little shy about any further forecasts of when the new AMOLED panels will start creeping their way into the market.

Even if the displays start rolling out in 2013, it should be a few years before the technology is as ubiquitous as Samsung's dream-like demo.

Via IntoMobile