Oh, yeah – this is awesome. The particulars (relatively low-res, static images only, monochrome, etc.) betray this as a first generation product, but you gotta start someplace. Polymer Vision has lightweight / flexible / rollable / low-power display technology available now.
Importantly, the displays have a high resolution (85 dpi) and the technology used in the front plane ensures a highly attractive paper-like quality, as well as a far wider viewing angle than even the best LCD displays. So reading is easy anywhere and under any light conditions, even direct sunlight. Rollable displays are ideal for reading-intensive applications such as e-mail, e-books, -newspapers and -magazines.
What%u2019s more, rollable displays offer all these advantages without decreasing the battery lifetime of mobile devices. The display technology that gives these screens their paper-like appearance is %u2018bi-stable%u2019. This means they draw power only when the image changes, so consumption is extremely low.”
Their website has more pictures, too. As this matures it’s going to open up a lot of very cool possibilities.
(via Gizmodo.)
JRH puts the text between and like no one else on earth! Holy crap!
me hangs head in HTML/CSS shame… 🙂 I’m trying to get that nice blockquote attribution via href that JB has.
(BTW, it looks like the important parts of your comment are getting stripped out …)