Can Thin, Flexible Frames Be Far Off?
If you read the high-tech/gadget websites, you may seen this week that Sony debtued an OLED, flexible TV screen. The little beaut is 2.5 inches and weighs less than 0.05 ounces!
Seeing this, I was immediately reminded of my article from a few weeks back about personal digital frames that might go inside wallets, lockets, or other small, personal items.
The debut of this kind of display seems to me to make the digital frames I speculated about much more likely. If your screen can bend and flex without damage, and still show an image, the applications of a digital frame become much broader.
Sony’s expecting to put these displays into use in TVs this year. Hopefully some enteprising frame marker will see the potential for these soon after and stretch the boundaries of the digital frame.
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Wireless Digital Picture Frames » What About Public Transit? wrote at June 29th, 2007 at 1:02 am
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