Cheap, flexible LEDs comprised of an organic-inorganic compound utilizing fast inkjet printing, are stretchy, bendy

https://source.wustl.edu/2021/10/stretchy-bendy-flexible-leds/

"Sure, you could attach two screens with a hinge and call a cell phone “foldable,” but what if you could roll it up and put it in your wallet? Or stretch it around your wrist to wear it as a watch?... used a particular type of crystalline material called an organometal halide perovskite... can be printed onto a variety of unconventional substrates... such as rubber... Imagine having a device that starts out the size of a cell phone but can be stretched to the size of a tablet"

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