Future phones will be stretched to limit

Fancy a smartphone with a screen that can double in size and stretch like rubber?

Future phones  will be stretched to limit

Or a curtain that acts like a light, illuminating your kitchen, while wallpaper does the same in the adjoining sitting room?

Such devices are one step nearer to reality with the recent development by the University of California of an elastic and transparent organic light-emitting device, or OLED.

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