While hundreds of tech companies are planning to unveil their latest products during CES 2025 in January, for the last few years LG has made a habit of making a major announcement or two a week or so before the start of CES.

And this year the company is keeping up that tradition with the introduction of the LG UltraGear OLED Bendable Gaming Monitor (45GX990AB), which LG says it "the world's first 5K2K-resolution bendable OLED display."

Breaking down those claims one by one, this is a 45 inch monitor with an OLED display featuring a resolution of 5120 x 2160 pixels.

The most distinctive feature though, is that you can position the screen for use as either a flat or curved display thanks to its bendable nature that lets you "smoothly transition from completely flat to a 900R curvature in seconds," which means that there should be a pretty pronounced curve.

The idea is that gamers and other users who might be interested in the immersive experience that comes from a curved display wouldn't have to commit to using the screen in a curved state all the time.

This isn't the first display with a bendable display – Corsair released a 45 inch, 3440 x 1440 pixel bendable gaming monitor a few years ago, and LG already has a 42 inch, 3840 x 2160 pixel bendable smart TV. And that helps explain why LG's press release describes this as the first bendable with a 5K display.

LG hasn't said how much the new bendable monitor will cost, but I wouldn't expect it to be cheap: the Corsair and previous-gen LG bendable displays currently sell for $2000 and $2200, respectively. And that's a few years after launch.

In other words, it's probably cheaper for folks who want the versatility of using curved and flat displays to just buy two different monitors… assuming they've got the room to store them and don't mind switching from one display to another periodically. Like most new technologies, the convenience of a single bendable screen isn't cheap.

In addition to being bendable, LG's new screen has a 0.3ms response time, and an "upgraded Dual-Mode feature" for quickly switching between presets for different resolutions, refresh rates, aspect ratios, and picture sizes.

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