People says that Samsung is spear heading in technology so fast, that even other Korean companies and the market cannot keep up with them. Samsung has been frequently demonstrating some breakthrough in the advancement of display technology, like transparent AMOLED screen and scrollable AMOLED screen.

Now Samsung’s Advanced Institute of Technology has yet another prototype foldable display, which may or may not be the same reference design spotted at FPD 2008. Its two panels have a closing radius of only 1mm, meaning they practically touch when closed, yet show no visible crease when opened. In fact, the developers performed 100,000 folding-unfolding cycles to test the junction; the negligible 6% decrease in brightness was invisible to the human eye.

Commercially-available silicone rubbers are used to achieve that seamless look, and the prototype featured a protective glass cover which could also double as a touchscreen. Obviously there’s a market for touchscreens you can fold up and put in your pocket. However, the most important question of all is when we will actually see such innovation enters mass products.

SOURCE via Physorg