The future of epaper
So where is epaper–which includes E-Ink–headed? Check out Epaper: The Flexible Electronic Display of the Future, Geoff Daily’s article in EContent. Excerpt:
Despite repeated promises of a paperless office, paper continues to be the primary method of distributing and viewing textual content, and with good reason. “The paper that we read today is a fantastic display—lightweight, easy to read, and rugged—except for the fact that it’s completely static,” says Darren Bischoff, senior marketing manager at E-Ink, which manufactures electronic ink imaging film. The challenge, he continues, is “how do you make something that’s dynamic but also has some of these visual and physical characteristics of paper.”
On the road to this goal, “there’s a continuum of flexible display capabilities,” says Bischoff. “The first stop on that continuum is really something that is likely rigid, but thin, light, rugged, and shatterproof.” He goes on to give the example of a PDA that you could drop without breaking the display. “The next stop is going towards things that are curved or conformable,” he continues. “Then the third area is called ‘repeat flexible,’ which can take some amount of flex. The ultimate vision is the scrollable display.” A scrollable display would allow a cell phone to have a five-inch screen that could roll up into a much smaller form factor.
(Via MobileRead.)
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