LG wants to make mounting your TV just as easy as sticking a magnet onto your refrigerator.
At an event earlier this
week, the South Korean electronics giant showcased an
incredibly thin 55-inch television with a flexible screen that you can press onto your wall using magnets.
incredibly thin 55-inch television with a flexible screen that you can press onto your wall using magnets.
It's just a concept, though —
there's no indication when or if a product like this will actually come
to market. The purpose of the announcement was really to announce LG's
plans to focus on making OLED screens for products moving forward.
The TV screen itself is less than a millimeter thick, according to CNET.
For context, that's about the same thickness as a paper clip. As shown
in the image below, a magnetic pad holds the flexible TV screen up to
the wall.
The TV itself almost looks like paper.
LG's new display marks yet
another concept device that showcases how flexible screens could one day
be implemented into everyday products.
Both LG and Samsung have been
pioneering flexible display technologies over the past several years,
but we have yet to really understand why gadgets with curved screens
would even be necessary in the first place. A television such as the one
LG showcased earlier this week begins to answer that question a little
bit.
Samsung is believed to be capable of developing a fully flexible phone by 2016, a company executive said at an investor event in New York this past November,
but it's unclear exactly what the advantages of a bendable phone would
be. Both Samsung and LG have released phones with curved screens, but
they haven't really caught on with consumers.