Hasta La Gadget!

We are a little over a month away from CES 2014, the biggest consumer electronics show that takes place every year in Las Vegas, Nevada. Rumors about what might be unveiled at the show have already started coming in, so far it is believed that new Haswell powered Chromebooks and quadcore 64-bit processors from Qualcomm, Broadcom and Nvidia might make an appearance. Recent reports coming in from Korea suggest that Samsung might unveil a flexible OLED TV at the Consumer Electronics Show 2014, but the Korean manufacturer itself hasn’t said anything about its product displays at the show.

LG is also said to unveil its “remote bendable OLED TV” at the show, so its highly like that Samsung would want to match its rival on that front. It has been speculated that Samsung’s flexible OLED TV might only be part of closed door meetings, meaning that it might only be shown off to select journalists and analysts, and that it might not be unveiled to the consumers just yet. No specifics about the TV’s hardware have emerged, the display size is not known as well. This information, aside from vital details such as pricing and availability, will be made public at CES 2014 next month if Samsung really does plan on unveiling its flexible OLED TV.

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Last week, Bloomberg reported that Samsung has plans to produce a phone with a curved OLED screen which wraps around three of its sides. Now, a patent reveals how Samsung would make use of that kind of hardware.

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A few years ago we saw a View-Master that was upgraded with digital picture frame displays. Alec Smecher took the classic toy to the next logical progression. He bought a very old model of the View-Master and installed a pair of 0.9″ 96 x 64 OLED displays, a Raspberry Pi and a laptop CD-ROM drive on it. After a lot of hacking and programming, he was able to make it play 3D video.

All of the electronics fit on the View-Master because this particular model has an attachment for a light bulb and two D batteries so that the toy could be used in low light. The Mini-CD actually sticks out of the top of the View-Master as it spins, a nod to the cardboard reels used with the toy. Alec also made the smallest possible modification to the case of the View-Master so that he could still restore it to its original state if he wanted to.

Alec says that his hack isn’t 100% done yet but as you saw in the video it does work. Check out Alec’s website for more details on his hack. I bet a lot of people would like it if Oculus VR released a View-Master case for the Rift.

[via Hack A Day]

LG recently launched the G Flex, a banana-shaped phone which makes use of a curved OLED screen, and it turns out that it’s true to it’s name: it seems to bend really rather a lot.

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We now live in a world in which you can buy a smartphone with a curved glass screen, with Samsung’s Galaxy Round hitting South Korean stores. But, in the eyes of its creators, it’s just a prototype. Still, whack it on the shelves, eh?

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