An indestructible TV screen for the Nintendo Wii anyone?

I can't wait till OLED screens are mainstream!

really cool product. as long as they dont market it as indestructible they should be fine

holy crap anybody else amazed by how thin the oled screen is!? this IS the future!

P.S. Son dambi=awesome.

YEA!!! Controller proof. LOL!!!

very cool. 5-10 years we'll all have at least one of these things in our possesion. But i got a question. What happens if you crease it. Not just bend it, but like bend the screen in half and then hammer at the crease. I'm assuming that's gotta do some damage, but idk.

Wow ,that thing is thin. Wonder what connector is used to hook up HD signals to that? =p

I can't believe how bright the screen is considering it's so small. Man, LCD's have nothing on this tech.

I'd like to see how much force it takes to actually destroy one. Like, if the guy bent it to the point of creasing etc.

WOW impressive stuff.

Very impressive but "virtually indestructible" is a bit of a stretch. I'm not sure you could bend it much farther before it causes permanent damage and that doesn't screen "indestructible." And I hate to be the naysayer but he wasn't hitting that thing very hard with a hammer...

The technology looks simply amazing and I can't wait until we start seeing this in consumer electronics, wrist-watches, etc but let's not over-exaggerate. I wouldn't even describe an armored tank as virtually indestructible.

Cool demo... but you have to be careful with polymer encapsulated OLED designs. OLED's need hermetic seals for longevity, and polymers are not hermetic long term. Longevity will be the problem with the above design, glass is REALLY good at staying sealed for many years (vacuum tube anyone?) as long as you don't smash it with a hammer.

Yeeeehaw..new wallpaper.

Is it just me or was he pulling the hammer a bit before impact on the oled? A rubber mallet is one thing but if you carry it around in a pocket with a bunch of change for a week I bet it gets scratched up pretty bad. Or run it over with a car, either/or Something about the suggestion that something is indestructible just makes me want to disprove that claim.

wow wtf, that is cool.

Put the OLED under water and it will fail immediately. put the LCD under water and it will work.

Where's my OLED armored suit?
Think about it, make super camouflage with any surface (with the right programming) and be really strong..

Thats because OLEDs dont require a back light, which also means great contrast. Just cant wait till these things in 22" cost what current TN panel LCD's cost. However with the ever inflating American dollar I may never be able to afford one.

AM-OLED! AM- AM- AM-OLED!

Did anyone else hear that music, or just me?

it's a song sang by Son dambi and After school to promote the technology for samsung. hence my post above indicating she's awesome...

Absolutely... this tech is going to big a big player in the panel market, I expect it to squeeze out all players at the smaller screen size just like LCD did years ago... and then work it's way up.

OLED panels are brighter, with higher contrast, better blacks, AND SUPER thin. The damn things look amazing.

So they should market it as "virtually indestructable"

This would be perfect for gamers with tempers... Now can it hold up to a knife

I can't wait until this technology gets cheaper. However OLEDs don't have the life expectancy of a regular LCD, plasma or CRT TV.

I hope Samsung has been fixing the major problem on LCD till today, that is 18 bit interpolation colors. I hope all OLED will be true 24 bit in all type panel.

Nahh.... Nano Suit FTW!

which consumes more power: OLED or LCD?
- all other things equal (same screen size, resolution, brightness, ...)

Safe wii bowling, about time.

Wow this is the first time ive been truely impressed by this tech.

Wonder how cheaply they can make it. And what the color/pixel density is.

If its cheap enough one wouldn't have to worry about longevity, just swap out the screen part with a new one a few years down the line.

Go Samsung

You could probably combine it with magnetic ferrofluids which harden instantly with electric current to resist bullet impact, and muscle wires which contract in response to electric current. So, we've got 3 out of 4 for the nanosuit, not bad:

Cloak mode-OLED screens, except this would be more like adaptive camouflage instead of true cloaking
Armor mode-ferrofluids and pressure sensors
Strength mode-Muscle wire
Speed mode-Muscle wires...moving really fast.

Now all we need is for aliens to invade North Korea.

"...so any attempt to hammer a device that carries such a screen might not destroy the display right away, but will do some damage to everything else."

If they put the frame of the device between the screen and components (with only the connecting wires coming through), it would be much more durable and would allow for larger screens

LCD consumes more power.

"It's just one big explosion of black liquid that reminds me of a very freaked out squid."
Yummy boy, ever bothered (as a writer for a so called tech site) how a LCD is working? The liquid is transparent, it just twists the polarization of light based on a electrical potential applied with (thin transparent) electrodes. The "black thing" is just light polarized perpendicular (by the first filter) to that of the (second) polarizing filter, so it just does not get through... when there are no (spilled) liquid crystals to twist it.

Back to the topic, OLEDs are still life limited, compared to LCDs, and more so the lifetime varies depending on emitted wavelength (an old display will render wrong colors).

Power consumption of OLEDs might be sometimes higher (depending on the percent of surface lighted an intensity) than transmissive LCDs, due to their lower efficiency compared to LEDs (used as backlight), but an LCD backlight is always "full power". Reflective LCDs (w/o backlight) OTOH, consume almost nothing (the classic LCD wristwatch, for example).