Max Planck Institute and Sony Corp. researchers say we are at the beginning of a technological revolution for screen displays, with bendable optically assessed organic light emitting displays becoming possible.

All-organic, flexible and transparent multi-color displays will make feasible the design of computers that can be folded and put into a pocket, the mass-production of moving image posters for display advertising and even television screens that can be bended to be viewed, the researchers said.

Such technologies have significant advantages when compared with today's traditional technology used for projection displays and televisions, the researchers said. The new technologies, for example, provide fast response times, nearly unlimited viewing angles, high efficiencies and nearly unlimited size and resolution.

The research is reported in the current issue of the New Journal of Physics.