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This week’s feature, New Twist on Displays, left out photos of many interesting display prototypes due to the space constraints of print. Here are just a few examples.
This display prototype from Plastic Logic (see third image down on this page on E Ink's Web site ) uses e-paper technology from E Ink Corp.
Polymer Vision’s Readius roll-up e-book reader display prototype extends a thin polymer sheet display supported by a plastic frame (see the images on this page). The bistable display technology was developed by E Ink. Here’s another variation.
This prototype of a universal communication device, under development at Universal Display Corp., contains a roll-up OLED display (see the image on UDC’s home page) and is an early example of flexible OLED technology.
Unfortunately, images I received from makers of cholesteric displays - NTera Inc. and Kent Displays Inc., aren't on their Web sites. NTera adds the element of transparency, while Kent has shown examples of its displays embedded on fabric.
The story also mentioned battery maker Solicore Inc., which has leveraged flexible electronics technology to develop flexible batteries for such applications as RFID tags and smart card displays. In the story I mention that those batteries aren’t powerful enough to power a cell phone. But Michael Mahan, vice president of business development at Solicore, says there’s no technical barrier to making powerful enough batteries for the job. “Would we envision making flexible batteries for handheld devices at some point in time? Sure. But right now our focus is microelectronics,” he says.
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