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Originally Posted by Salgueiros
As a research subject, i am tottally in favour of this study. As someone pointed before, this technology might find use in ereaders that are not disposable, or lead to improvements in current technology, but implementation of this as a disposable object for mass comsumption, no.
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I'd like to point out that the *screen* can become disposable. If you read the article, you would see that what the researchers actually said was "In general, this is an elegant method for reducing device complexity and cost, resulting in one-time-use devices that can be totally disposed after use". As far as I know, the processor and battery still weigh in on the cost of an ereader. But I can see that you could have conference posters where you could play an animation instead of being limited to figures.
Plus one of the big advantages is the fact that it is flexible. The problem so far with making screens that can be folded is the fact that they get damaged. If it doesn't cost that much to replace the screen, than we could have devices that can fit in a small purse, but can be unfolded to a 15" screen.