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This panel is elastic enough to recover from repeated stretching, but it’s important to remember that this is a demo. A flexible screen you sell to people needs to remain elastic for years, but this prototype needs to last only through a week-long conference. In fact, most of the “flexible” display technology we have now has only gone toward forming curved screens that don’t bend after manufacturing. Samsung currently sells a number of phones with curved displays, including the Galaxy S8 and S8 Plus. The curved variants of past phones sold better than the flat ones, so Samsung isn’t even making a flat version of the GS8. Maybe in the future you’ll be able to get a Galaxy smartphone that can stretch, too. In addition to bending and flexing, you can also change the shape and size of these panels without distorting the image. Samsung’s prototype has one interesting bonus that current curved and flexible panels don’t have — it can adjust the image to eliminate distortion. This only works for up to 12mm (about half an inch) of stretching, after which the image will no longer look “flat.” Samsung would not comment on how far the display was capable of stretching, but presumably it’s more than 12mm. The hope is that stretchable OLEDs could become useful in devices where screens need to be compact or unusual shapes—for example, in wearables and IoT products. You could also alter interfaces when a display stretches — like 3D Touch that’s actually 3D. There are also plentiful gaming applications. Just bear in mind that it took several years for curved displays to move from trade show demo to real product, and this technology will probably take even longer. PC MAGAZINE DIGITAL EDITION I SUBSCRIBE I JULY 2017
WHAT’S NEW NOW NEWS STORY The Coolest Features in iOS 11 BY CHLOE ALBANESIUS Apple kicked off its annual Worldwide Developers Conference in June with six key announcements: One was its newest mobile operating system, iOS 11. Craig Federighi, Apple’s senior vice president of software engineering, promised “hundreds of new features and incredible updates” for existing iOS apps. The company released a beta version of iOS 11 to developers at the conference and promised a public beta in July for those who like to tinker with new software. Everyone else will get iOS 11 in the fall, which is likely when new iPhones will be released.
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