Sony has developed a razor-thin display that bends like paper while showing full-colour video.

The display combines Sony’s organic thin film transistor, or TFT, technology, which is required to make flexible displays, with another kind of technology called organic electroluminescent display. 

This tecchnology is not as widespread for gadgets as the two main display technologies now on the market – liquid crystal displays and plasma display panels.

Although flat-panel TVs are getting slimmer, a display that’s so thin it bends in a human hand marks a breakthrough.

"In the future, it could get wrapped around a lamppost or a person’s wrist, even worn as clothing," said Sony spokesman Chisato Kitsukawa. "Perhaps it can be put up like wallpaper."

"To come up with a flexible screen at that image quality is groundbreaking," said Tatsuo Mori, professor at Nagoya University’s Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

"You can drop it, and it won’t break because it’s as thin as paper."

This could be used in hundreds of cool new products, as well as enhancing thousands of existing products. Are you ready for an unbreakable, bendable and wearable laptop screen?