Polymer Vision has created an e-ink display that's totally rollable, and they've created a mobile device that will use it. This technology is sure to please all Earth: Final Conflict fans.
Channel: Howto & Style Uploaded: February 14, 2007 at 7:24 am Author:phonescoop
Wait till electrowetting-displays comes to market. Full color 300 fps displays. No backlight. Perfect viewable in direct sunlight. Also a development from Holland. (Google Liquavista)
Tereza0002(Saturday 26th of April 2008 11:14:05 AM)
Very nice, and especially good since it uses power only to change the image, not to maintain it. Like a normal page, not backlit. There should be a back light but there should bee the option to turn it off.
Of course the main problem with these displays is that they are very slow to refresh so you can forget watching a 30 frames per second video on it as this can do about 1 frame per second. Give it a few years, or wait for organic led technology.
eInk cannot be backlit, since it's opaque. They are working on a frontlit solution using another layer on top. I have to wonder if the added thickness would conflict with the flexibility though.
The major limitation with OLED is that it has terrible contrast in daylight. The technology is "emissive" (pixels produce light directly, rather than reflecting like eInk or modulating like LCD), and generally doesn't have the "power" to compete with the sun's sheer ambiance.
donzeki(Wednesday 20th of February 2008 01:25:11 AM)
Yesh!!! Shmoke and a pancake?!
cyborgtroy(Sunday 10th of February 2008 10:37:01 PM)
dewd - Massive screens all up in ur pockets... I heart that..
wetterbericht(Sunday 28th of October 2007 06:17:27 PM)
