First A4 colour e-paper unfurled – TheAge.com.au: Quite an interesting development. I wonder how the people that forked some coin for the Sony Reader feel when they see this type of news. I guess some day soon we will see complete billboards featuring this type of technology.
South Korea’s LG Philips LCD has developed the world’s first A4-sized colour electronic-paper – a paper-thin and bendable viewing panel.
The e-paper – which measures 35.9cm across its diagonal and is just 300 micrometres (0.3 millimetres) thin – can display up to 4096 colours.
It is designed to be energy-efficient, only using power when the image changes on the display.
What I want is a very cheap and light notebook computer. If this new display is combined with one of Intel’s new notebook processors and a bunch of regular notebook stuff, it could work out good.
Invest in some writing classes first.
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I invested in a Sony reader and have enjoyed it immensely. I was pretty sure it would only be a matter of time until the color electronic paper was perfected. I imagine it will be a while before it shows up in a consumer product. In the meantime, I can take my reader with me including the 80 or so books in it.
can i roll it and/or bend/fold it, and do i ALWAYS have to use tacky white gloves when handling it? 😛
You get a free pair of white gloves with every one sold! Though you shouldn’t wear them after easter.
Actually. Why do you think all of these large manufacturers are trying to get you to buy crappy plasma or LCD tvs. Because they know that all tvs will be using this thin like projection material and are wanting to profit off of 50 year old technology. Your typical consumer, obviously, thinks that everything Best Buy or Circuit City has to offer is indeed the “future.” Ha. Have to blame silicon valley for covering this tech as if it had anything to do with the “future” of entertainment also. CNET and others shareholders must consist of every big hardware conglomerate known to man.
This paper material has actually been in circulation for awhile, but there have been an absence of financial backing to warrant any large appeal. My guess is that companies wanted to capitalize on their margins more so than they wanted to offer a cheap alternative to entertainment hardware. You see this all over the place. Companies will actually invest highly in technology and patents, just so they could sit on the tech in an attempt to control the markets. I say attempt, but that is hardly the case in the automotive and computer sectors.
But everybody probaby knew this anyways. ***Insert smart comment here***
This technology is great for showing a still image. I doubt seriously if its ready for video images yet. It takes the ink over a second to “set” on one image.
Once this technology gets fully developed, wont it kill projector sales?
especially for powerpoint presentations…
After waiting since about 1996 for e-paper to show up, I got a Sony Reader for my wife just two weeks ago. She loves it. For those of you wanting this color e-paper don’t worry I’m sure you’ll be able to buy it “any day now” – for the next 5-10 years…
-Al
Old news.
Color e-paper technology in various flavors has been around for quite a while.
E-paper tech has been around for a long time, period. Hell, E-Ink has had color demos for years: http://www.eink.com/press/releases/pr86.html
Commercialization is the holy grail now.
Frankly current LCD, cholesteric LCD, plasma, e-paper, inorganic EL, DLP, LCOS, elecgtrowettting, and EL display tech is so mature and competitive that any new display tech better be f*cking perfect or it will never have a chance.
Now I am kind of glad i couldn’t afford the Iliad when I first heard about it. Well, I still can’t, but now I can wait for the color version to come out and lust after.
Yeah – this type of tech has the most promise of any sort of display I’ve heard about recently – especially the fact that its non-volatile – E-Books would be a good use – but I think it could make a significant impact on notebook battery life when it matures. (That particular display doesn’t look all that bright, there is the reset time issue (It needs to be quick enough to immediately display letters when I type), and the resolution could use some improvement too. Still, very promising.
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For notebook apps cholesteric LCD is a better nonvolatile tech.