Samsung features a pliable screen

   Many companies today orient their research on flexible and rollable screens, but Samsung just introduced it's pliable screen. The presented prototype consists of two displays of the type AMOLED (Active Matrix Organic Light-Emitting Diode) protected by a glass slide and attached by a hinge.
    Until today, the double-screens were always consisting on separation at the center, as a plastic hinge separated the two screens. The advantage of this model lies in the fact that this plastic has been replaced by a hyperelastic material silicone rubber, giving the illusion of the continuity of a single screen.
   One half of the screen is built into that material and the other adheres to the surfaces of the hinge, the whole being covered with a touchpad. The curvature has a radius of 1 mm, so that whether the screen is folded or unfolded, it is almost perfectly flat.

   The screen was tested by closing and opening it 100 000 times, there were no signs of wear or cracks detected, but the brightness at the center was decreased by 6%, and the Korean company announced that this device has a lifetime of aproximately 5 years. If no comercialization is expected to date (the cost of the flexible AMOLED remaining prohibitive) the prototype has the technical possibilities that could emerge in the coming years.