You can even crumple it into your pocket

At the recent Display Week conference, the Chinese company Royole introduced a very remarkable display that can eventually focus on the front of a smart watch and possibly phones or other devices. Its new micro-LED panel (with a high density of small diodes) is interesting mainly because essentially arbitrarily flexible. It is therefore not only adapted to bending, folding or rolling, but to essentially any change in shape in all three dimensions. This display is even retractable. This is up to 130% of its standard size, which is a feature that the company used for another display and its own FlexPai 2 mobile phone, which has a screen bend on the outside of the hinge. To top it all off, it’s said to be a retractable and deformable Royole display compatible with current production methods.

Therefore, once the development of these screens is completed, it should not be a problem to mass-produce them. The question is, where they find use in common communication or wearable electronics. The limiting thing, of course, will be how the rest of the hardware can adapt or balance the screen.

Sample model, which you can see in the pictures, has a diagonal of 2.7 inches and a resolution of 96 × 60 pixels. Even on the density of diodes (or PPI), it will also be necessary to work before the retractable and deformable Royole display can find practical use in high-end electronics. For example, in IoT components or in the automotive industry, we could see the results of this development soon.

What device can you imagine with this display?

Source: Royole