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Monday, February 12, 2007
Rolling out a new display concept: rollable display
Cell Phone with Rollable Screen Planned describes a new technology from Polymer Vision that enables displays to be rollable (to minimize size while stowed away, yet create a large display while rolled out) and that supposedly has a much higher readability factor and lower power consumption than LCD displays.
It sounds like an excellent fit also for ebook readers. From pictures at Polymer Vision's site it seems the display is so thin it's almost like plastic film, similar to the displays used in the movie Red Planet.
Reading books on mobile phones hasn't caught on in Europe and USA, but is fairly popular in Korea and Japan. This kind of display makes it much more convenient, yet it should be noted that the technology currently doesn't support fast-changing pictures, so it can't be used for e.g. videos at the moment.
It sounds like an excellent fit also for ebook readers. From pictures at Polymer Vision's site it seems the display is so thin it's almost like plastic film, similar to the displays used in the movie Red Planet.
Reading books on mobile phones hasn't caught on in Europe and USA, but is fairly popular in Korea and Japan. This kind of display makes it much more convenient, yet it should be noted that the technology currently doesn't support fast-changing pictures, so it can't be used for e.g. videos at the moment.
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Heh. I've had "write about Polymer Vision" as a task on my list for the past several days. I guess I'll go ahead and do it now.
Even though rolling up a display sounds a bit medieval it seems like a really good and lightweight technology, especially if it could also do color and fast animations.
I thoroughly want a Readius. My Rocket eBook shows severe signs of age.
I thoroughly want a Readius. My Rocket eBook shows severe signs of age.
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