Aug

5

e-News - Flexible Display Newspaper Concept, and Trial Project

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A flexible display newspaper concept from the UK and an e-news trial project in Germany are in the news this week.

From the UK, Electricpig reports on a flexible display concept:

The electronic e-reader concept by Mayo Nissen could be how the national newspapers win back their receding readership in 2015. The day’s news scrolls across the front page and the further you unroll it, the more detail on each headline story is displayed.

The paper and ink publishers have been fighting a losing battle with online newscasters that can update their stories as it happens, but the e-paper could change that.

The forums at MobileRead contain a discussion of a Spiegel report about an e-news trial project by Deutsche Telekom this fall. The forum poster notes that participants in the “News4Me” trial project will be given a dedicated ereading device for receiving personalized news reports.

Aug

5

Watch Plastic Logic Flexible Display Demo

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This video demo from Plastic Logic demonstrates their use of flexible display technology. Note that the information on the display continues to refresh while the flexibility of the device is demonstrated.

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Plastic Logic Plans for Flexible Display Device

Aug

5

Plastic Logic Plans for Flexible Display Device

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From VentureBeat comes news of the plans of Plastic Logic to introduce a flexible display device.

Thin, flexible display tech is one of those advances that has been just over the horizon since the Internet bubble started inflating. Remember the promises of e-paper — a crossbreed with the best qualities of both paper and computer screens, used as portable reading material? So far the best we’ve gotten is the Amazon Kindle, but Plastic Logic is hoping to change that, with a plan for commercialization next year.

Plastic Logic, spun off from Cambridge University in 2000, has been working for a long time on its technology, a semi-transparent sheet of tough plastic that can quickly create and erase static images (video is still a challenge). Electronic books, of course, are the obvious application, but there is also potential for signage, RFIDs, head-up displays (HUDs) and other gadgets.

The article indicates that Plastic Logic has plans to introduce a device with flexible display features in early 2009, “pitting it against E-Ink, Samsung, Panasonic and several other rivals who are working in a similar time frame.”