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Brian · 10-19-2005, 10:55 AM

LG Philips and E Ink have announced the world's first tablet-sized flexible electronic paper display. The 10.1 inch 800X600 SVGA display, with 100 pixels per inch and a 10:1 contrast ratio, is less than 300 microns thick. The paper-white four grayscale display is as thin and flexible as construction paper. From the press release:

"We all need flexible displays," said Russ Wilcox, CEO of E Ink. "They
are 80% thinner and lighter than glass displays, and they do not break like
glass displays. You can roll them up and put them in your pocket. You can
curve them around the outside of a cellphone. Or you can throw them in your
briefcase like a newspaper. As Galileo famously told us, the world is not
flat."

This new display would be ideally suited to a digital future newspaper, a low-cost/low-power tablet suitable for e-book reading, as well as other applications like garments with display capabilities and places where current display technologies can't be used.

Read the full press release here.

Related: The future of newspapers, More e-paper promises

[via Engadget]

10-19-2005, 10:55 AM	#1
Brian MobileRead Editor Posts: 447 Karma: 84 Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Massachusetts Device: Treo 700p, Zodiac2	World's first tablet-sized flexible E Ink display LG Philips and E Ink have announced the world's first tablet-sized flexible electronic paper display. The 10.1 inch 800X600 SVGA display, with 100 pixels per inch and a 10:1 contrast ratio, is less than 300 microns thick. The paper-white four grayscale display is as thin and flexible as construction paper. From the press release: "We all need flexible displays," said Russ Wilcox, CEO of E Ink. "They are 80% thinner and lighter than glass displays, and they do not break like glass displays. You can roll them up and put them in your pocket. You can curve them around the outside of a cellphone. Or you can throw them in your briefcase like a newspaper. As Galileo famously told us, the world is not flat." This new display would be ideally suited to a digital future newspaper, a low-cost/low-power tablet suitable for e-book reading, as well as other applications like garments with display capabilities and places where current display technologies can't be used. Read the full press release here. Related: The future of newspapers, More e-paper promises [via Engadget]