The World's Thinnest TV

May 28, 2007 | by Christopher Nickson

You can bend it, but you can't beat it — at 0.01 inch, Sony has come up with a screen breakthrough.

There’s thin, and then there’s incredibly thin. When it comes to television screens, Sony has come up with one that’s going to be almost impossible to beat, the proverbial size 0 of displays - at 0.01 inch (0.3 millimeters) it’s thin enough to bend. The company has released video of the screen, which currently offers a 2.5 inch display in full color.
 
This is a huge breakthrough, an advance on the flat panel sets we’ve all been buying, even if Sony hasn’t yet decided what they’ll do with it. A company spokesman did offer speculation, however.
 
“In the future, it could get wrapped around a lamppost or a person's wrist, even worn as clothing. Perhaps it can be put up like wallpaper.”
 
Sony had predicted this development more than a year ago, and they’ve finally delivered. The screen employs a mix of technologies, an organic electroluminescent display and an organic thin film transistor (TFT).
 
This puts Sony firmly back in the forefront of display technology, and they presented it at a symposium for the Society For Information Display in Long Beach last week.
 
So will we be wearing our televisions in the future? Probably not, but if you have the desire, it just came a lot closer.

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Jason Howard on May 28th, 2007 at 9:05 AM:

This is great! It would be nice to have not only a thin/flat TV or monitor, but light as well. Now they'll just have to make sure the monitor base is heavy enough so that the monitor doesn't fall over easy.

darrell flint on Apr 9th, 2008 at 9:01 PM:

I think this is already being used by T-shirttv.com.

I saw this at CES it was a great. I found this video too.

http://www.brandmarketers.com/v5/TTV_Video.html

darrell flint on Apr 9th, 2008 at 9:01 PM:

I saw this at ces. T-Shirt TV

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