Gizmodo has an interesting story on Samsung showing a flexible OLED screen that is just .5mm thick.

Samsung where showing off an ultra-thin ‘flapping’ OLED screen at FPD International 2008. Samsung demonstrated the flexibility of the OLED display by letting it bend and flutter in the wind.

At a paper-thin .5mm, the 4-inch screen is still able to create an image of 480×272 pixels, with a 100,000:1 contrast ratio and 100% reproduction of the NTSC colour gamut.

Obviously this is a demo model to show case this flexible OLED technology and a 480×272 display is not exactly huge – it shows one possible direction the TV industry may take in the future, with Sony showing off a similar display a few weeks back.

At CES in January, it will be interesting to see if any progress has been made in getting this technology into production – probably not for a while yet – so a TV you can roll up and take with you will be a few years off.

Interestingly, Samsung commented that they could have made the display even thinner A Samsung spokesman said:

"It is technically possible to make the panel thinner, However, it is difficult to further reduce the thickness of the flexible substrates and circuit components around it."