OLEDs Predicted to be in Future Computer Displays of Any Shape
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Author: LIGHTimes Staff

June 3, 2008... Queen's University Computing professor Roel Vertegaal, predicts that the shape of things to come in the computer world will not be just flat. The professor is developing prototypes of new "non-planar" devices in his Human Media Laboratory. Dr. Vertegaal said that not only will new displays take on flexible forms we've never imagined such as soda cans with browsers displaying RSS feeds and movie trailers, computers of the future will respond to our direct touch and even change their own shape to better accommodate data, for example, folding up like a piece of paper to be tucked into our pockets.

Dr. Vertegaal cites three recent developments in computer technology that have allowed inventors to move beyond the rigid, rectangular design of current devices. These are advances in touch input devices, the development of flexible displays using OLEDs, and kinetic organic interfaces that change shape in three dimensions according to a computational outcome.

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