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Samsung Flexible 3D AMOLED Display
Samsung is working on a flexible 3D AMOLED display. The intent is to make use of the foldable active-matrix organic light-emitting diode display to enhance the three-dimensional effect when presenting stereoscopic images.
(Samsung 3D OLED Display)
Fans of science fiction writer E.C. Tubb recall the flexible wall sheet display from his 1958 novel The Mechanical Monarch:
Against one wall a wide sheet of clear material suddenly flared with light and swirling colour. It steadied and a woman stared from the screen. A woman with long dark hair and eyes that were like twin pools of midnight beneath her heavy brows. She wore a dress of some shining black material and her full lips were red against the whiteness of her skin...
From Samsung mobile display via OLED Display via Dvice.
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