Tuesday, January 27, 2004
OK, this is cool. "Twist-o-flex" displays are on the visible horizon.
Global Home - Philips Steps up Rollable-Display Development - Royal Philips Electronics
Lightweight, large-area displays that are unbreakable and can be rolled up into a small-sized housing when not actively used, are particularly attractive for mobile applications. Ultimately, large-area displays could become feasible, which are so flexible that they can be integrated into everyday objects like a pen. The availability of such displays would greatly stimulate the advance of electronic books, newspapers and magazines, and also new services offered by (third generation) mobile network operators. These applications currently depend on fragile, heavy and bulky laptops or small, low-resolution displays of mobile phones, which both have clear drawbacks.
Philips not only wants to prove the feasibility of such displays, but also has the ambition to rapidly move towards the development of an industrially feasible process for volume production. Within the Philips Technology Incubator an internal venture has been formed with this aim. The venture is called Polymer Vision...