"As you can see it's quite flexible," says Anna Chwang, senior scientist, as she displays a paper thin film with images running across it.
It uses something called "OLEDs" (organic light emitting devices), a thin film of chemicals, 1/10,000 of an inch thick, that turns an electronic signal into a picture, much like a television does.
OLEDs have already been spread on glass and used for cell-phone displays. These scientists are perfecting a way to spread them onto plastic to create flexible OLEDs.
Hollywood science fiction, right?
Actually, the future seen in the Tom Cruise movie "Minority Report" may be just around the corner.
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