Electronic newspaper prototype unrolled by LG.Philips LCD
Someday you’ll flip through the newspaper, read an article you like and then tap on the accompanying photo, which springs the image to life. Imagine video highlights beside sports stories, comic strips that become animated cartoons or the ability to enlarge or reduce the font.
Someday you’ll flip through the newspaper, read an article you like and then tap on the accompanying photo, which springs the image to life. Imagine video highlights beside sports stories, comic strips that become animated cartoons or the ability to enlarge or reduce the font.
While this might sound like something out of The Minority Report, from what we’ve seen today at the CES show it’s definitely a promising new technology.
Representatives from Korean display company LG.Philips LCD demonstrated its new 14.3-inch flexible colour E-paper display, boasting the highest resolution (1280 x 800 pixels) thin-film transistor liquid crystal display (TFT LCD) of its kind.
According to LG.Philips LCD, these bendable 300 micrometer displays — which uses metal foil and plastic substrates rather than glass — are also energy efficient, only using power when the image changes.
Similar to LCD televisions, viewing angles top 180 degrees so the text and images look sharp at multiple angles.
According to Korean research firm Displaybank, the flexible display market is projected to balloon into a US $5.9 billion dollar market by 2010 and US $12 billion dollar by 2015.
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I'm glad you posted about this, Marc, as this is potentially gamechanging technology. Flexible e-ink-based displays have been floating out there for years, but they've always had limitations inherent in early-generation technology: monochrome, low resolution, low contrast, etc.
But refinement is happening to the point that we're Almost There when sitting these things beside more conventional displays. Key is how fast they'll be able to productionalize the technology and drive the economies of scale to the point that we'll all be able to afford 'em.
My call: five years to high-end introduction and seven until it's mainstream.
Newspaper editors should be watching this very closely, as it'll rewrite the rules of distribution pretty quickly.
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Thanks, Carmi. Look at you rocking the comments and showing how freakin' smart you are. You blow me away, dude. Hope you're well. Chat soon, dude!
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Xerox talked about this years ago and how they were going to take the lead. I guess they drop the ball again like with Alto, the 1st pc, eithernet, GUI, the mouse etc etc.
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Wow that's fantastic, it's a really big leap in technology. I wonder how fast this technology will be so cheap to use it in daily newspapers.
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Wow that's fantastic, it's a really big leap in technology. I wonder how fast this technology will be so cheap to use it in daily newspapers.
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