[News] Samsung showcasing stretchable OLED display this week

[StyM]

http://hexus.net/tech/news/monitors/...-display-week/

Samsung will shortly unveil a new kind of display, at the Society for Information Display (SID) Display Week 2017, which kicks off tomorrow in LA. The star of the show, for Samsung, will be a 9.1-inch stretchable organic light-emitting diode panel, reports The Korea Herald. This stretchable display is the most flexible yet, more so than bendable, foldable and rollable varieties and will give greater latitude to device and accessory designers.

A Samsung Display spokesperson told the source that "While current flexible OLED is able to be transformed in only one side, this stretchable OLED can be transformed - whether curved, bended or rolled - in both sides, above and below". It is claimed that the display can be indented by up to 12mm and revert back to its original shape without issue. Have a look at the example image from Yonhap above, for an example of the OLED display in action.

[zanzabar]

this will be great for upping the durability and repairability for phones. i have done around 500 iphone screens with maybe 1 or 2 broken on install, but those glued in amoled on the samsungs are always a pain and i about half of them end up broken from very small bends that are needed to install the things.