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Originally Posted by nairbv
I duno... I imagine a flexible screen would be more expensive not cheaper, since it would add complications.
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Depends on the manufacturing. Flexible displays would mean printed electronics, which are very cheap to do. Although i guess this price advantage will only be noticable once there is really a mass production.
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I also think if the epaper is not mounted in a rigid case would be more vulnerable to damage, not less. Why would getting rid of the case make it safer?
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You can put your elbow on the screen or even hit on it with your shoe and the display will not break. Thats what i call less vulnurable. Although there might be other dangers to the display then.
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I don't think it would be so flexible to allow a creased fold, unless maybe in one designed in spot.
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The displays are supposedly to be like laminated paper. So bendable, but only to a certain extend. I assume that folding it would damage the screen.
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If rolled in a tube and then sat on, wouldn't it just break? and the corners wouldn't have any good protection.
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Depends on how they are made. Although it willl most definately leave a mark on the paper.
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they're just making flexible e-ink, not flexible CPU's and batteries and such
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Thats right for the time beeing. But i could think of a book with pages, which has maybe 100 pages in it, a processor in the cover, and you can batch program these pages. Easy to flip through. But thats more the future. See the attached image for what the devices are supposed to look like.