Samsung’s Flexible Display [VIDEO]

I briefly read about Samsung’s flexible display over on PC World. The idea was fascinating but hard to grasp. Screens that are flexible? That would be pretty hard to manufacture.

Here’s an excerpt from PC World that briefly described what it would be like:

Samsung has shown flexible OLED (organic light emitting diode) displays inside rigid cases that kept the screens curved. The technology has material within each pixel that generates light, making it perhaps more suitable for flexible screens than LCDs, which would require both a flexible screen and a backlight.

Wow.

Though fascinating, I quickly forgot about the idea. But this concept video circulating around the web has caught my attention. It’s the Samsung’s flexi-screen demo, and while it looks very CG it does help people to visualize what Samsung is trying to work on.

Some might be wondering why do we even need a flexible screen? Well, for starters, the idea of a phone screen that doesn’t crack is certainly appealing. And I also like the thought of a bendable, wrist-band style mobile device like TDK’s flexible screen concept from last year.

Samsung stated that mobile phones with flexible display will launch sometime in 2012. So watch out for this flexi-screen device.