From Editor’s Weblog:
Plastic Logic, a developer of plastic electronics, has fabricated the world’s biggest flexible organic active matrix display, reports fit1…. The display, which consists of a flexible, high resolution, printed active matrix backplane driving an electronic paper frontplane, has been presented at the 12th International Display Workshop in Takamatsu, Japan, on December 7 2005.
According to the company, the new technology will show up in e-readers and e-signs starting in 2008. Right now, there are four levels of grey (much like the first generation of truly usable PCs) on a display that’s a 10″ diagonal SVGA (600 by 800) with 100ppi resolution. It’s less than 0.4mm and corrects for distortion (as the “paper” is flexed) in real time.
The rash of developments in e-paper make me wonder if it will indeed be 2008 or 2010 (as some of suggested) before the arrival of flexible, pocketable displays, hooked into the wireless world launches a whole new media era.
TAG: E-PAPER
