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Flexible displays

Even as they’ve continued to grow progressively larger, displays have always been something of a constraint on smartphones. They are, after all, the single largest contiguous piece of hardware, and as such they play an enormous role in defining the user experience. Displays are a large part of why so much of the smartphone war has played out on the software battle field.

This goes double for wearables, where Screen printer size and inflexibility has served quite literally as a restraint to form factor. There’s a reason, after all, that smartwatch and fitness band displays are so damned small. The human body, as it turns out, is a pretty tricky canvas to work with. It’s curvy and angular and straight and bumpy, all at the same time. It’s one thing when you’re putting cloth on it, and another thing entirely when you’re attempting to cover it with circuitry.

Smartphone manufacturers have forever described flexible displays as the technology that will some day revolutionize the space, and that goes double for the nascent world of wearables. The difficulty of working with the body as a platform is amplified by orders of magnitude when you factor in the variation from person to person. At the moment, the vast majority of Pad printerare very far from being one size fits all.