Samsung Show has taken the wraps off its new rollable display screen know-how for bigger screens, saying it may “revolutionize the portability of pill PCs or laptops.”
Not like present slidable and foldable units, which Samsung says solely triples the dimensions of a display screen, Samsung says the Rollable Flex display screen expands to 5 occasions the dimensions — from 49mm to 254.4mm in size. It does so by rolling the show round an O-shaped axis like a scroll of paper.
This might make bigger units like laptops and tablets smaller and simpler to hold.
It is not the primary time we have seen a rollable show; the Motorola Rizr idea telephone was revealed this 12 months after LG confirmed off a telephone with a rollable display screen again in 2021 earlier than exiting the good telephone market, which got here after displaying off a rollable TV at CES in January 2019.
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Samsung can also be showcasing its Sensor OLED Show, which acknowledges fingerprints wherever on a display screen and may measure your blood strain, coronary heart price and stress ranges if you contact two fingers on the display screen.
Not like in present good telephones, the fingerprint sensor is embedded within the smartphone panel somewhat than beneath it as a separate module.
“To precisely measure an individual’s blood strain, it’s essential to measure the blood strain of each arms,” Samsung Show mentioned in a press release. “The Sensor OLED Show can concurrently sense the fingers of each palms, offering extra correct well being info than present wearable units.”
Samsung’s new tech is presently being showcased throughout SID Show Week in Los Angeles. Additionally on show from the tech big this week:
- A foldable telephone idea referred to as Flex In and Out for telephones that may be folded 360 levels each inwards and outwards. This tech may result in lighter and thinner foldable telephones, Samsung Show says.
- A mixture of foldable and slidable screens, referred to as Flex Hybrid, introduced earlier this 12 months at CES 2023.
- A slidable show referred to as Slidable Flex Solo that adjustments from a 13-inch pill to a 17-inch display screen.
