The World’s Thinnest TV

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 almostimpossible 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 inchdisplay 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. Acompany 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 likewallpaper.”   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 displayand 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 SocietyFor 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.