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Flexible displays aren't much good unless there's flexible memory alongside. It's been [attempted before](http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/flexible-organic-flash-memory-on-tap-at-the-university-of-tokyo/), but bending memory pushes the individual transistors so close that they begin to interfere with one another -- causing degradation and shortening the device lifespan to just a single day. The Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) has solved the problem by pairing transistors with [memristors](http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/hp-touts-memristor-development-bleak-future-for-transistors/), which are immune to such annoyances. By fixing both inside a flexible substrate, you can push them as near as you like without any electo-radiation spanners jamming up the works. This also means that the flexible RRAM behaves just like flash memory; maybe in the future it won't just be [antennas](http://www.engadget.com/2011/08/23/buckeyes-embed-antennas-in-clothes-couture-to-improve-radio-rec/) sewn into our [clothes](http://www.engadget.com/2011/10/04/help-for-the-lost-a-fabric-antenna-to-keep-you-from-being-a-cas/).
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