SCREENS GET AHEAD OF THE CURVE

TECH COMPANIES ARE STARTING DOWN THE LONG ROAD TOWARD DISPLAYS THAT ACT LIKE PAPER.

- Lana Tleimat

CONSUMER ELECTRONICS

1. Valve

2. T-Mobile

3. Jabra

4. Samsung

5. Apple

6. Phonecheck

7. NuCurrent

8. Eero

9. LG 

10. Vestaboard

FLEXIBLE DISPLAYS HAVE CAPTIVATED THE imagination since they were first invented in 1974, in a lab where so many pioneering technologies were born: Xerox PARC in Palo Alto. But the path from lab to mainstream consumer electronics has been famously difficult. Samsung was the first to sell a consumer electronics device with flexible display technology. Its Samsung Galaxy Round-a phone-tablet hybrid that featured a curved 5.7-inch screen that mimicked the shape of a slightly cupped hand-hit consumers' hands in 2013.