Researchers at Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology have built a prototype for a foldable display. They tested the prototype to see if folding/unfolding would cause a visible degradation in the fold point. In their tests, after 100,000 fold/unfolds there was a 6% degradation. If you check out the koala picture in this article, the only reason I could tell that it was a foldable display at all was the caption!
The one they built simply folded in half. Maybe future ones would have more foldability (is that really a word?) -- then I could take my 32'' monitor with me when I travel. Once you get to your destination you would need some kind of holder, or maybe it could just attach to a wall somehow. This would make work travel so much nicer! I would have a real display instead of working with the too-small laptop screen. Or think of connecting this to your smart phone while you are stuck waiting somewhere and watching a movie with a real screen! No more squinting to see what was happening.
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