What is Stopping Flexible Displays From Taking Over?

[@AdeebO_o]

That intro tho The girl is pressing all the wrong places

[@mddaniel6573]

+ADeeb Bushnaq lol

[@mohammedsaafan6935]

Hahahhaha xD

[@plasticguitar]

+ADeeb Bushnaq Like me searching for the G spot

[@raynutty82]

plasticguitar Lmao! Feel for the bean!

[@geoidYT]

When someone demonstrating on o2jam can't even o2jam correctly.

[@gafeht]

FINALLY I can fold my tv into a crane!

[@ottokoit]

X3

[@jaylonakers845]

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[@MacDaddyDev]

Perhaps flexible displays are the one piece of technology that companies want to perfect before throwing them out into the wild? Think about it, they're taking a big bet with flexible displays.

[@mikethelegendarygamer4581]

I agree, tech companies need to take time for more development and more importantly taking perseverance into the project

[@PongoXBongo]

Consumer education is going to be important as well. Otherwise we'll have a rash of people creasing their "foldable" displays, only to crack and ruin them.

[@OohzyJohnDow]

I think it is more about patents and usability. The big companies are having battles over flexible display tech. The other side is the usability. Although it is very cool such a flexible screen, what is it actually going to be used for vs durability? Curved screens already flooded the market and for the home usage there is no need for more curves. Phone screens tried curves as well, but did really catch on, plus why would it? Phones and tabs (etc) need regidity to function good and to offer durability. Flexible motherboards, chips etc are not there yet ;) So what is the usage of a flexible screen then? Other then the "ooh cool" factor and perhaps commercial display setups? To me personally the flexible display market will mostly be for production advantages once the tech has been refined and production processes optimized. As i said before, current display tech already allows for curving.

[@socialgamergang4474]

When you realised it was uploaded 4 years ago. Well it was not recommended right?

[@RockCh4lk]

I want a phone screen that rolls up into a pen, and can extend to a tablet sized display...

[@warwolf6862]

But it won't be rigid

[@zeromailss]

RockCh4lk it's a give and take,i die I've don't mind that, ima use it like a book on table

[@kirosun]

Where do you keep all the other components that run the screen?

[@zaca911]

explain to me how the battery and components will be flexible ? this will never be possible until true wireless charging takes over.

[@luongmaihunggia]

KMS MEMES we could battery outside of the flexible screen

[@UnwrappingByMimiKoteng]

Skip the foldable displays. Give us portals.

[@Charles-nu4si]

unwrapping by mimi koteng yep

[@texomatex1]

Well, for now, this could simulate a portal

[@TerrySpanky2]

Did you meant hologram?

[@IndianYouThoober90]

+Terry Spanky no like doreamon any way door

[@NFS-shade]

I want a reusable teleport scroll like dota 2. Willing to trade with my car here.

[@TheTechReader]

We're still waiting but manufacturers are trying to still create glass displays. As a result what's been released is mostly a gimmick - foldable phones and laptops etc but it has a big crease down the middle and has a limited life cycle because they keep trying to make it with a glass display. Until they ditch the glass we'll still have heavy, solid devices.

[@speakingout6345]

I need a rain jacket with micro cameras all over it that project what they see through pixels that are covering the jacket, true camouflage

[@flavi0lima]

2019 - it's finally here!!!

[@jarguswp]

It takes 5 years, to finally, flexible display mobile device trends, come true...

[@08wolfeyes]

These are a great idea with so many potential uses. I feel that as a phone screen though one simple issue people may have is that when pressing buttons on the screen for example, they like it to be a hard surface that they press against. Ok, so you can use a table i guess but what if that's not available.

[@MrCallincallin]

This will be an awesome product for all the kids that have sleep-overs. My son has a 40" smart tv and a play station that he takes with him to his sleep-overs. The same happens when his friends sleep over and bring their big monitors.

[@moosefactory133]

Even though I currently using an old plasma flat screen TV my sister gave me, I am still fascinated with this kind of technology and would love to see it take off.

[@mariobarrera420]

put it on a t shirt or back of a jacket, have moving advertisement on clothes

[@kal386]

John Alex battery pacj

[@DarkShiftMusic]

Get your new solar powered shirt here! Solar powered!!!

[@PETERJOHN101]

great...so mankind is reduced to turning human beings into billboards.

[@downsouth420]

Idiocracy coming true.

[@Soul_senpai]

Fun idea, but please. No.

[@VinayThakurCool]

2:30 CONSOLE MUSTERED RACE

[@Lizarino]

lel

[@budc.8172]

They could be used in the construction industry for large blueprints. One advantage for large blueprints is that you can have many people stand around and view and point at things on the blueprint so you can communicate your ideas easily. Small screens mean that only a few people standing next to each other can show ideas at one time. Also large screens mean you have a giant bulky rigid screen to carry around. So having a large roll-able screen is the best of all worlds combined into one product. It also allows for corrections or changes to be made on the spot that are instantly relayed to everyone else without having to re print blueprints.

[@Yokartikpeh]

I am about to finish my PhD on Graphene based flexible electronics. Flexible electronics require a transparent electrode that can bend several times without cracking. ITO (indium tin oxide) electrodes that are used pretty much in every phone and TV are fairly brittle. They can be placed on a curved rigid glass, but cannot be repeatedly bend on a flexible plastic. Transparent electrodes that can be bent repeatedly are generally fabricated with conductive polymers. They are very sensitive to heat and chemical attack. They can also degrade in time by themselves. So a process would need to address for all these issues. They are also fairly expensive and hard to synthesize. Compared to ITO which is simply a metal oxide, conductive polymers require more strict synthesis procedure. Conductive polymers are also less electrically conductive than ITO electrodes, so a device design has to take that into consideration (I guess this could cause an efficiency issue. More energy would be loss to heat). So, it is true that manufacturing volume has to increase for conductive polymer synthesis to at least drop cost of material. There is also the issue of how to deposit a very thin layer conductive polymer film evenly on a surface. Conductive polymers are not exactly my field, but through lab experience I can tell you that this process would be somewhat easy but labor intensive for small surface area (about a 5 inch phone screen). It can be a nightmare if you try to apply it to a large surface area (large screen TVs). Either way, it would require labor, and qualified labor. Just because you can do it in a lab does not mean you can do in a factory where no assembly personnel would have a master's in science, let alone a PhD. We can do a lot of things in our labs and showcase it at a fair and blow people's minds. So, the fabrication process has to be simple, fool proof, and streamlined. This process also has to produce a very small number of faulty devices. If half your fabricated devices are ending up in the garbage, your process is crap and it will reflect on consumer pricing. Figuring this out can take a lot of money and time. And it is not guaranteed that it will work. If the only way you can do it is through a sophisticated and expensive method, why bother? People are not dying to have flexible screens.

[@thunderbirdizations]

I travelled a “few years” into the future. Where’s my paper thin flexiscreen?

[@skyrockll]

masterchief helmet with integrated displays.. for stuff like motorcylels , or airsoft or even for military use with an overlay from termic camps and night vission .

[@damysticalone87]

That flexible curved big inch TV at 2:13 looks immersive. A link to its specifics would be interesting

[@makai2174]

Samsung Galaxy fold just got shown off at the Samsung unpacked event

[@thatthieff]

... Probably more likely because people like me are thinking "It'd be too expensive and I'd just snap it clear in half or rip it, or dent it somehow, forget it's in my pocket and send it through the washer and flat out never be able to find it.

[@TheHachisuNoHana]

As someone who is constantly moving, a flexible tv would be very handy. But I feel like a flexible phone would be too easily damaged if you put it in your pocket.

[@tastytechaddictsmtb]

You are forgetting one thing,.......you can have flexible displays as much as you like but what are you going to run it with ?.....a flexible circuit board, with a flexible battery, flexible earpiece, vibrator motor, chips etc. As far as a mobile application goes this is suuuuuuuuuuuuuper early days !. Its once thing having a display that flexible, its totally another having all the components you need to drive the display being flexible.

[@golgothapro]

I already saw a video of where a guy interfaced a pic with an Android to produce scrolling text from speech. Using a flexible display strip across the top of a vehicle windshield with the scrolling text and an optional reverse lettering algorithm for being read in rear-view mirrors seems like something that should already be done to me. It's like right out of an old Matt Helm Movie.

[@lachlanoneil7916]

we don't need flexible displays neither do we need thin displays, phones ect they are already thin enough what we really need is better batteries and faster computers.

[@tact1calbanana388]

Lachlan O'Neil phones are already fast "enough".

[@jeremiahrussell4913]

Flexible screens are great for games that need a greater POV. Like Day Z, VR, a lot of other games. You wouldn't have the screen streching/acting weird when you increase the POV.

[@NDKY67]

Very useful inside diving mask to display info about dive times etc.

[@atomicnerd9871]

your phone is in your hand, snap it, now its your bracelet, unsnap, now its a wearable headset that displays your favorite shows before your very eyes, snap it again, wait, no roll it, then snort coke.

[@mrdxiong]

The perfect market with high production demand is already in place. Use a large transparent sheet on the interior windshield side of vehicles. Display GPS and real time warnings so drivers can keep eyes on the road without looking down at today's dashboard GPS. Displays turns, right in front of the driver, ie- arrows on the road itself. Have a small map at the bottom corner like in GTA games.

[@EpicUwU_]

I would probably buy a see through flexible display. Put it on my window or something.

[@luongmaihunggia]

How about a window that is see through like a normal window but also a digital screen?

[@domachondri]

I can see homes adding flexible displays like posters, where they can put it up wherever they want and eliminate TV's. Probably after true wireless charging is modernized.

[@codymuller5744]

I love how the girl in the beginning isn't touching anywhere near where the colors were

[@ramonteuling672]

100% smartwatch

[@patrickmonkman8151]

+Ramon Teuling or smart band in that case

[@fumomofumosarum5893]

I like my screens like my lolis.

[@behemothokun]

80" in diameter?

[@briandoesstuff4831]

finally tenchi muyo flat screens are coming to life! been waiting for over 15 years. also a cool idea would be scroll phones. and the buttons could either be touch screen, or on the sides that "fold" or roll up the scroll phone/device [::]||||[::]

[@skyhook383]

First thing i can imagine is 360-Degree surround display, already using the triple monitors for gaming.

[@sam1101983alpha]

camoflag for army vehicles, 4 wall & ceiling paired with 360 camera walk in VR, car windshild, windows, many more.

[@rayg1369]

I remember seeing a video before youtube even came to be about OLED and flexible screens. they were showing them off since a lot closer to 2000

[@chrisdenation1]

i would fkin put it on my window during winter, turning on some beach footage and pretend im in a beach house fml

[@rgnldwllms]

My use of it would be as a large curved computer monitor

[@Foro5Cibercafe]

The problem with flexible display is the perspective, the software to make the image follow certain perspective would be very complex and process intensive, so there is no way by now to make them useful, while by now seen a distorted image is just for fun but not practical at all.

[@Mastermind8908]

Tony Stark's display inside his helmet. But seriously, all because it CAN flex, doesn't mean it should be in a device that allows it to flex all the time. This just means it's a material and technology that can form fit to the inside or around something that best utilizes that shape for the user. It's benefit is its versatility.

[@nicolausgbauman]

The flexible display should end the laptop and the tablet form factors completely. They should coalesce into three-ish items that combined weigh only a few ounces. 1) A screen you can roll up into a small protective tube 2) a computer that's about the size of a Raspberry Pi (fits well inside the palm of my hand) and has the computing capability of the laptops we have now or better 3) Something to prop up and unroll my flexible display that has a camera that can watch my fingers type and touch on the table in front of it (no more physical keyboard).

[@Ph4tT0ny]

Watching this on my Z fold 3 makes me smile 🙂

[@invertedv12powerhouse77]

another problem that must be tackled with these is in software, having current aspect ratios like 16:9/21:9 and others. The screen may look a bit distorted the more its folded? unless when you fold it around you in games, you increase your field of view. either way it would be useful just when it comes to ease of transportation

[@leafbelly]

Because a truly foldable device requires a foldable battery (processor, RAM, etc.), I think most phones we'll see in our lifetimes will just be "bendable'" phones. The only other way would be to have those components stored separately, in your pocket, and transmitted wirelessly to your screen. Even then, we'd also need "true wireless" charging also.

[@supahvaporeon]

I know this video is kind of old, But I would love to get ahold of one of these some day and make a PVC frame for a custom swiveling monitor.

[@levoGAMES]

You could use a display-rolling mechanism in a smart-watch, so that it extends out of your watch towards your arm and eventually reaches a display-size that is similar to that of a traditional smartphone. Essentially, that would make it a wrist-mounted phone. It sounds cool and futuristic, but it's also a bit too gimmicky, that's why I never considered building a prototype. Here's the idea. If there's a smart kid out there who wants to try it, go ahead.

[@SOUNDINTHECITY]

@2:16 all that you are missing is a SubPac to really pull you into the action.

[@ambika69]

This needs to be used for the smart-glasses projects.

[@SjaakSchulteis]

It's interesting, but so far have not use for it. I like a solid flat screen, thin, ok, but foldable? I even never fold paper unless it is necessary, or (maybe some people remember, pictures). But flat is great. You can hang a flat, thin screen at a wall, put another frame around it etc....

[@uasakura]

If a smart phone is flexible, I can imagine alot of people folding it or putting a hole through it by putting them in pockets or in handbag. For phones, I reckon it is best to have holographic displays, which will be years and years of development. Flexible displays should be used for TV or wall display.

[@xavierpony192]

Titan Fall Looked Epic at the end with a true curved display

[@aethersmith4830]

These prototypes are awesome! But yeah, where are they? It has probably something to do with price/volume.

[@karrezza]

IF you are still reading them, they are making Echos with displays.. could you imagine the original that is taller cylinder (I hate the new ones with 1970s fabric look) having a full round display that from the direction your voice came from the display focuses that direction??

[@sebbes333]

Imagine coating the inside of a cars windshield with a transparent & flexible screen, then add a bunch of sensors of all kinds: In the night the screen will highlight animals that is detected by IR cameras, and it can map out the road in low light conditions (or you can use your headlights, but where is the fun in that? ;P ) The car can either use 3d cameras to detect your eyes and then model the interface so it lines up with what you see, or it can "assume" that your eyes will be in a general area where eyes usually are and simplify the calculations but will be less immersive.

[@stephenpaulson8313]

looking through all the comments, non of the uses require flexibility. thin and curved isn't the same as flexible. there's always going to be a solid component anyway due to processors and batteries.

[@TackKeyNack]

Device design seems to be the greatest barrier. What would you use these displays for? You wouldn't exactly want curling your smartphone whenever you want to use it with one hand. There are only a few commercial practical implementations for this concept as of now, so it would take time for these to mature.

[@milkjug7]

A phone that when you drop it the screen wouldn't crack, instead it would just jiggle when it hits the ground. This could also be good for people who put their phone into their back pockets, no more iPhone 6 incidents

[@edsboyd]

For cloaking a jet fighter or any military transpo.. this is future stealth.. i dream about this since this technology came in..

[@fitzgeraldmistral97]

They could market it as a stand-alone accessory for the hobby-DIY market. They won't have the constraints of having to fit to the needs of the cellphone or tablet or TV or desktop markets. Just sell it as a DIY accessory with CSI connectors.

[@kueapel911]

combined with the latest flexible material that switch between solid state and flexible state with an electrical current switch, this could make for a phone with foldable larger screen to switch between tablet mode or phone mode with a single built in switch and folded screen inside the phone.

[@arcangle723]

They should put the electrical components in a separate small box or boxs and use magnet to connect them to any fixable screen

[@Sir-Smiles]

We havent seen a flexible display product yet because like always everyone is waiting for someone to do it so they can copy it then sue each other claiming they did it first

[@AWARHERO]

Instead of a big tablet, you simply carry a tube containing a flexible display. Good for backpackers ;)

[@torok3334]

If the sound is such a problem can't the make some sort of Bluetooth pod that plays the sound?

[@nightmisterio]

This screens should be used in VR headsets for a bigger field of view

[@drviper102]

large flexible monitors and TVs would be really good for gaming.. like VR.. except no headgear.. want to look to your left? the TV or monitor is there with a side view, to the right? same thing... would be really good for gaming

[@MagicGate814]

Still waiting for the flexible display revolution. I believe the TV monitors are getting thinner, but not as thing as the ones shown here.

[@huggybear69deluxe]

Imagine wrapping your car with that running Gifs on it.

[@soggy0289]

attaching one to a wind shield or window for like driving apps that can assist you on any car not just a super high tech car

[@raulsaavedra709]

The main application will be not home theater but your own Home Omnimax

[@VyvienneEaux]

A portable TV monitor that you can plug into your phone. It would roll out from a tube and snap into place once fully extended.

[@jetlorider]

1000% will amplify my life!

[@zoranhacker]

I like that thin strip display, would make some cool bracelets

[@nathangoff775]

It would be for augmented reality, that would be one of the best uses for it

[@jedipieahc9431]

360 videos where you wrap the tv around you and physically spin around to look

[@UniverseGOD2525]

what is the refresh rate and response time of such displays?

[@zin274]

that's very interesting. but what about cost? what about durability? I like the idea and potential applications for it. but if the cost is too high for the average consumer, I don't think we'll be seeing to many of them out and about. unless the developers can come up with a efficient way to keep the prices down within reasonable ranges. and if it is highly fragile, I can guess that their will be a lot of returns at retail stores. in it's current state as shown in this video, I only see it as a high class luxury item. right next to Ferraris and celebrity mansions.

[@mr0d3ag35]

The real revolution is inside, it'll be most interesting make microprocessor with new semiconductors

[@gasolinegus6321]

Well, I have to note. "Way back in 2014" Really? 2 years is really not way back.

[@tommoorehead5422]

Got this searching for flex screen clothing... Wouldn’t it be wonderful to design an appropriate tee shirt, then upload it to whatever you’re wearing!?

[@teisybe7886]

Is it possible that when this new folding tech will come out whole screen,phone etc prices will decrease drastic? In meaning not the old ones value, but superficially whole phone,tv etc industry will be cheaper maybe?

[@niyazmather]

nice. but i would also love to know what will happen if you try to fold it.

[@orangeelephant7321]

have it like a projector screen that rolls up into the ceilings. hidden TV as big as you want.

[@buboito]

I don't want a fully flexible phone I want a phone that fits in my pocket with comfort and can send to my hand

[@mightydeathlash2867]

I think it would be nice to shrink it small since it's thin and foldable. it would be very pocket friendly (saves space). Also, when I want bigger screen to watch movies I would unfold and when Im just talking on the phone I wont have a nearly tablet phone next to my face. sounda good.

[@diagnostician001]

Now we have the samsung galaxy z fold 5, and other foldables. A lot has changed since you first posted this comment.

[@Cyberdine.Systems.Model-101]

I want a screen that rolls out of a slim pen tube to watch movies or read comics/books.

[@nukemanmd]

Where do you connect it to your video source? What if you want multiple inputs? How robust are they? How many times can you fold/roll them before they crack?

[@luongmaihunggia]

They don't crack, flexible things don't crack only hard things like rock crack.

[@hyakinthos_0902]

imagine rolling your Tv and travelling with it

[@delinquentabhishek3776]

uses like a newspaper, a watch ,military uses maybe uses that are really wacky.

[@shachar2]

can't imagine a product. e-book is a limited product market. A phone would need interfaces or connectors and stuff so will have to have something that's thick (connectors like headphpone, usb c etc)

[@buzz86us2005]

I'd love to have a simple e-reader that can be carried in a binder if I wanted.. if they could do something that is 10 inches at about half a pound then I think they have something

[@jumperIndustries]

Yeah I thought one of the big issues was durability and lifespan? I've heard that the screens work well enough right now and don't rely on overly new technology but the problem is pixels die rapidly and the screens don't last very long as a result. Hell, half the pictures I've seen online if you look closely enough have dead pixels clearly visible and sometimes entire dead sectors somewhere on the screen. Whatever conductor they use for the screen has to be soft in order to be flexible, and soft materials still break down over time - like a rubber hose. If you sit there and bend and flex the hose long enough it'll eventually start to crack and finally break. Thin metal fibers work the same way. Anyone who's ever worked with electrical wires tells you the ultra high gauge wires - the ones with human hair thickness - are stupidly easy to break and degrade rapidly if you don't handle them super delicately. Put something that's made up of millions of those delicate wires into the hands of your average consumer and see how long it lasts. It'd be a RMA massacre if any company used flexible displays in a mainstream product right now.

[@chemislife]

one year later...........still waiting for a consumer product using a flex screen.

[@emiliosaldana1132]

And so it finally begins

[@landfair123]

I fear that the junk mail I get will become more animated.

[@bronzewizard7536]

I imagine a phone. Rolled up about the size of a highlight​er, and unrolled to a 7" screen.

[@intertechelectronicsrepair]

I wonder if this type of screen has pixels, it would be great if not. It could make a better resolution if it used on Playstation VR screen. Maybe coming on PS5 VR ?!