Do you remember the 2000 movie Red Planet with Val Kilmer, Terence Stamp and Carrie Ann Moss? I mention this flick in particular because of a scene where there's featured a gadget that many think it's something awesome. The rollable map display that has the size of a small pencil case.
Red Planet, copyright Warner Bros.
On the top right corner you can read the computer logo of IBM, but who came close to manufacture something very similar is the Japanese Sony with the OLED rollable display.
It is a 4.1 inches display with a 1,000:1 contrast, a resolution of 432x240 pixels supporting 16m colors. Clearly it's a remarkable advance in this sector taking this field towards a new direction in building a totally new type of computers and electronic gadgets.
Source: SONY Corporation
It can be wrapped around with a radius of 4mm making it compact enough to be installed on something like a cellphone or a pocket notebook.
An object of these qualities surpasses the flexible displays that are now i commerce in Japan, in fact the rollable OLED is just a prototype that Sony unveiled. On May 27 2010 the Japanese company will present it at the SID (Society for Information Display) in Seattle, Washington.
But we the rollable display represent the second step ahead in technology compared to north America and Europe. Non flexible OLED screens are already part of the Japanese market with OLED televisions flat as much as 11mm that went for sale this year with quality picture better than current LCD or plasma screens already for sale.
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