Eyes On With LG's Trippy Rollable Display

LAS VEGAS—LG'southward rollable OLED display is one of the well-nigh talked-about products at CES this year, but if you visit the Korean tech giant's massive berth within the Las Vegas Convention Center hoping to get a peek at the thing, you lot'll be let down.

CES 2022 Bug Art It's not on display at LG'south booth, and the company is being seriously selective about who gets to see the futuristic panel. I snagged an invite, and it turned out to exist one of the coolest things I've seen in the 3 years I've covered CES.

This matter was hidden away like Expanse 51. I entered through a door that read "No Photos," thinking "crap, I was told to take photos and videos of this."

And then it was in front of me. 2 of them really.

A woman quickly demoed how you can agree either side of the xviii-inch display and motility it like a wave.

LG Rollable Display

If I didn't know whatsoever better, I might accept mistaken the thing for a piece of shiny craft newspaper – something to cut out and mount behind photos in a scrapbook. It's that thin and malleable. She then completely rolled the brandish into a cylinder before grabbing one terminate and letting it gratis, returning it to its original flat shape.

LG Rollable Display

A second unit was already ready on some sort of base of operations, rolled upward and displaying images of city skylines.

LG Rollable Display

Despite what the sign on the door said, the team let me snap a couple photos and shoot a short video earlier ushering me out.

According to LG Brandish, the rollable OLED has a Hd resolution of one,200 past 810 with about 1 meg megapixels. It can be rolled up to a radius of 3cm without affecting the role of the display.

"This proves that LG Brandish can bring rollable TVs of more than than 50 inches to the market in the near future," co-ordinate to the company. Check information technology out in action below.

Well-nigh Angela Moscaritolo

Angela Moscaritolo

Angela Moscaritolo is PCMag's expert on fitness and smart home products. Didactics yoga for virtually ten years has helped her in evaluating a range of connected health products including fitness trackers, center rate monitors, rowers, smart scales, stationary bikes, strength training machines, treadmills, and more than. Angela also tests smart home devices from her ranch in Florida, including air purifiers, kitchen appliances, and robot vacuums, merely to name a few.