Plastic Logic announced today that it has developed the world's largest flexible display.
The display consists of a flexible, high resolution, printed active-matrix backplane driving an electronic paper frontplane from US-based E Ink Corporation.
The displays are 10" diagonal SVGA (600 by 800) with 100ppi resolution and 4 levels of greyscale. The thickness of the display when laminated with E Ink Imaging Film(TM) is less than 0.4mm.
E Ink Imaging Film is an electrophoretic display material that looks like printed ink-on-paper and has been designed for use in paper-like electronic displays. Like paper, the material can be flexed and rolled. The film only consumes battery power while the image is updated, and the flexibility of the display even allows a pressure sensor to be placed under the screen to implement a touchscreen without compromising the optical performance of the display.
We are a little concerned about durability (the dog ate my computer!!!), but Plastic Logic is saying that this might see commercial production, which tends to allay fears. Yum. However, we think that this might be a little bit of a solution in search of a problem. For fixed usage, there's no harm having a screen similar to present-day LCDs. Perhaps this could be used as an external display for mobile devices...
[via ubergizmo]
