The bracelet may have two parts, a touch sensitive flexible display and a solar power collector.
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Additionally, Samsung surprised CES attendees by briefly showing off a prototype "Youm" phone with a flexible display.
Researchers at HP continued their work scaling up flexible display drivers made from thin films of silicon on rolls of plastic.
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Over the next few years, though, they are likely to become important, particularly in a new generation of flexible display screens.
It needs flexible logic circuitry (to do the actual computing), flexible memory or storage, a flexible power source, and a flexible display.
Researchers at the Flexible Display Centre and elsewhere are working on ways to do that, and there seems little doubt it will happen.
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The technological advance of thin and light flexible display has encouraged the development of flexible batteries with a high power density and thermal stability.
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There is no way in the world that we will be walking around with a clear, super-thin flexible display that doubles as a holographic device.
The printing and computer company says the watch will have a flexible display that shows maps and other strategic information to soldiers in remote combat fields.
Samsung's flexible display technology, which allows tablet computers to fold into mobile phones or bend the edge of the screen, represents an effort to make its products stand out from others.
Also will see first appearance of flexible display screens.
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The filing also suggests that the device could house an end-detection sensor, allowing the wearable to configure itself to each user, regardless of differing wrist measurements, and deactivate sections of the flexible display that aren't on show.
The document describes a flexible touchscreen display which would communicate with a smartphone or other electronic device.
With technology from Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey, E-Ink recently demonstrated a prototype of a flexible page display that was driven by plastic transistors.
And like the flexible LG display we saw just a bit earlier, this screen won't stay off the market for long: expect a 13.3-inch version -- with touch capability -- to ship in the next two months, though it may debut on a third-party laptop, not necessarily one manufactured by Samsung.
But its display consists of a 9.5 cm diagonal thin film flexible E Ink display.
The firm said that its research and development investment would focus on developing smartphone software and next generation flexible and transparent display panels.
To have a fully flexible finished product, both parts of the display have to be flexible - the optical frontplane and the backplane, where transistors are - as well as the device's battery, the outer shell, the touchscreen and other components.
The flexible form of the display makes it much more portable that any current mobile computer: it will shape with your pocket.
In past years we reported on many OLED patents by Apple including a flexible OLED based haptic display, OLED based BLUs for LCDs, OLED control schemes and others.
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Apple has already tried to patent a flexible, wrap around display, which has to be an OLED screen, even though CEO Tim Cook claims OLED is not good enough for Apple.
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The device also allows business users to instantly turn a display into a flexible, securely managed, communications-enabled thin client for work, demos or presentations.
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Panasonic's mobile HDVC solution is flexible and scalable to accommodate multiple display, camera and recording configurations.
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Corning will use its patented fusion glass manufacturing process to produce a slim, flexible glass almost five times thinner than the standard display glass.
The same applies to the recent Apple patent for a wrap around display on an electronic device, which specifically relates to flexible AMOLED displays.
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The Gorilla Glass 2 display enhances the crisp and vibrant images, and is durable and flexible enough to handle the routine impacts of daily use.
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