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Bright future

This video watch and other displays don't exist yet, but they are some of the ideas that inventors have for using polymer light-emitting diodes (PLEDs).

In the next ten years, displays using PLEDs could be as thin and flexible as paper, so we could have displays on packets of crisps, TVs on our clothes and lights as thin as wallpaper.



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Video showing possible future uses of PLEDs, polymer light-emitting diodes.
Image: Cambridge Display Technology

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    Image: Veeco Instruments Inc.
 

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