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Flexible displays resurrect dream of paperless office
![]() - they reflect natural light, which means they do not require any added light source to read, much like ink on paper - they are bi-stable, which means once the power is off, the image remains unchanged. You only need power to change the image - they are so thin that they can be rolled up like normal paper. But engineers and developers are being cautious about over-hyping. "People have been using paper for thousands of years. We'll never be cheaper than paper, and we won't meet paper quality any time soon," said Amy Chen, vice-president of business development at SiPix Technologies in Taiwan, one of the developers of the plastic film that will one day make e-paper possible. Lee Cheng-chung, deputy director of flat-panel display technology at Taiwan's Industrial Technology Research Institute (Itri), said his institute was working on e-paper and he predicted it would be eight to 10 years before roll-up displays would be ready for widespread use. |
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E-Ink, from which your picture was taken, Morpheus, has been working on the flexible display for quite some time. E-Ink is also the MIT-spinoff that is behind the display of the Sony Librie. I hope other companies beside Sony are soon licensing E-Ink technology to make available hardware ebook readers that are not as DRM-restrictive as the Librie.
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Cringely on flexible displays:
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20040805.html |
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