Monday, January 26

Ars Technica: Foldable e-newspapers coming from Philips  

From Ars Technica: Foldable e-newspapers coming from Philips:

Philips has announced that they will be mass producing foldable digital monochrome screens that could be used to display all kinds of downloaded information, including the day's news. The screens will be approximately 'book sized,' and will be rollable in most formats to such an extent that it will be possible to easily store such displays on a persons mobile belongings (briefcases, bags, etc). Some formats will be able to be rolled so tightly that they can fit inside a pen.

Based on years of groundbreaking work on polymer electronics, Philips is capable of producing prototypes of ultra-thin, large-area, rollable displays on a routine basis and intends to rapidly move towards an industrially feasible production process. The displays combine active-matrix polymer driving electronics with a reflective 'electronic ink' front plane on an extremely thin sheet of plastic. Philips publishes the current status of its technology in the 1 February issue of the scientific magazine Nature Materials.

Good news, this is a first step towards my ultimate computer.

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