Samsung titillates with transparent and 0.05mm 'flapping' OLED panels

Samsung's all up in Sony's OLED space this morning at the FPD International 2008 show. They started by trotting out that 40-inch OLED TV again, with a Full HD resolution, 8.9-mm depth, and contrast ratio so high they just call it 1,000,000:1. Then they upped the ante while dialing down the dimensions to a 4-inch, ultra-thin 0.05-mm OLED (pictured above) with 480 x 272 pixel resolution, 100,000:1 contrast, 200cd/m2 brightness -- so thin that it was displayed flapping in the wind. Take that Sony and your 0.3-mm OLED chubster. Sammy then reached deep into its bag of tricks with a transparent AMOLED display (first hinted at around these parts in early 2006) with an appropriately clad model presumably meant to invoke your pubescent fantasies of x-ray vision. Or maybe that's just us. Click through to see what we mean.

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[(Unverified) Posted Oct 29th 2008 9:39AM]

I'm sick of this obsession with making screens as thin as possible. I don't care!

Just give me better picture quality.

I still don't think plasmas and LCD are quite good enough.

I'm hoping OLED will eventually give us a truly sensational 1080P picture.

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 29th 2008 11:45AM]

i hope OLED will bring this thin technology to us, why?

thin and less materials may in the future = lower manufacturing costs. and lower consumer costs.

additionally it requires less power to run.

so.... this is a great movement forward. I hope.