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by jd20 3006 days ago
What about just curved displays? Like in a car, it seems there could be some interesting applications (screen embedded in windshield, or wrapped around the dashboard or center console). Is curved glass tech also a barrier, because I feel I've seen very few applications of curved displays other than TV's.
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It’s infinitely cheaper if you want a display on your windshield to just do what aviation HUDs do: project upward onto the glass.
> What about just curved displays?

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/band

http://www.samsung.com/global/galaxy/gear-fit2/

Actual applications do exist. :)

Lots of cell phones have screens with a slight curve to them now days. Or in the case of Samsung's edge displays, a rather dramatic curve.

To the best of my knowledge, neither display in those fitness products was flexible, just bendable.

I know that as of a few years ago, Corning was hard at work on flexible "glass" for flexible displays.