Mr. Iuliano said he has also heard from at least one watch manufacturer who is interested in using the flexible displays on the wristbands of high-tech watches.
A full black-andwhite image can be displayed on an array of these pixels, and by using the flexible substrate polyethylene naphthalate (PEN) as a base Professor Arias's group created a flexible electrophoretic display.
The Flexible Display division provides electronic paper display (EPD), plastic EPD, and flexible touch electronic paper.
"In some embodiments, the flexible display could include thin layers of graphite designed to dissipate and spread heat generated by operation of a display of flexible display assembly and usage of the integrated flexible battery.
"We started from the flexible displays and flexible sensors," he explained.
Apple's engineering team came up with an ingenious solution: Instead of using a rigid OLED panel, they used a flexible display — not because they wanted the display itself to be curved, but as an engineering feature to hide the display controller.
Apple's engineering team came up with an ingenious solution: Instead of using a rigid OLED panel, they used a flexible display — not because they wanted the display itself to be curved, but as an engineering feature to hide the display controller.
The Apple patent describes various ways to use a flexible display for various input methods at length, pointing out ways that you can put flexible display material over actuators to create new buttons on-demand.
Using flexible display management, WireGL can drive a variety of output devices, from standalone displays to tiled display walls.
Samsung is looking "to encourage designers, hardware engineers and entrepreneurs to begin thinking about future start-ups ideas using flexible display technology".
