The neatest thing I saw at CES: PVI's flexible E-ink screen

[yvanleterrible]

Originally Posted by Dulin's Books

flexibility allows for larger, lighter, thinner devices

As the displays get larger the possibility of breaking the glass back pane when the device is twisted rises. the main way to offset that is to make the glass thicker. which adds weight and thickness. by removing the glass you make the device more durable and can take better advantage of the thin/light properties of the e-ink

apparently most people aren't ready for a flexible device. Plastic Logic was initially showing about a device that wasn't rigid. People didn't like it. People related bendable to cheap and fragile when its actually the opposite.

PolymerVision faced the same hurdle with Readius. One of the main reasons it went to from fully rollable to sort of folded was because people told them it seemed fragile. There's no difference in the material between the earlier designs and the last prototypes just peoples perception

It's always the same marketing thing, instead of making one great flexible screen, they'll make a Sony clone type device, just because more people like them.

During that time, the rest of us are nothing

That marketing approach is wrong. Make it flexible and affordable, build it and you'll have companies and people buy it for different reasons you thought of . Man, a flexible display is awsome and to be the first to manufacture it? That's beyond brilliant!!!

[badbob001]

Originally Posted by yvanleterrible

That marketing approach is wrong. Make it flexible and affordable, build it and you'll have companies and people buy it for different reasons you thought of . Man, a flexible display is awsome and to be the first to manufacture it? That's beyond brilliant!!!

The biggest and heaviest single component would probably be the battery and I don't think they can make that as flexible as the screen. A flexible screen may also pose a challenge for a touch interface without needing to put the device on a flat surface first. And flexible doesn't mean foldable and people may get the wrong idea or it may happen when stored in a bag full of books.

Now, they could put the hard components into a base module and have the screen pull out from it like a scroll, which will keep it safe when you throw it in a bag. Much like this, minus the ugly:

[yvanleterrible]

Absolutely!