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Philips Improves Electronic Paper

Posted by timothy on from the wait-till-it's-on-snowboard-graphics dept.

Remco writes: "BBC News ) has a story about Philips apparently improving the quality of electronic paper. What they've done is instead of using sillicon, they've discovered a polymer for use in electronic paper. This makes it cheaper to produce and has the added bonus of providing 256 grey shades of gray." Philips has been working on flexible displays for a while as well as research on using plastic instead of silicon. here's an article we posted before about OLEDs, another one of the promising leads toward thin, low-power, cheap-to-make displays.

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  1. Re:it just keeps going on by khuber · · Score: 2, Funny
    I have this thing that's just like electronic paper except it's box shaped.

    Yes, I've read many articles about all the advancements in digital paper. I figure that one of these days they will discover how to actually make it.

    -Kevin

  2. I can't wait by abe+ferlman · · Score: 5, Funny

    Finally, books can be printed on a medium that respects the rights of authors! Once your reading license has expired, the pages will simply erase themselves. And a retinal scan can even be sure that no unauthorized readers get access to your prose!

    A new day is dawning for innovation, and the promise of the copyright system to encourage the creation of new works and the protection of the exclusive right of the rich to actually read anything that's ever been written is finally being fulfilled.

    I know I'm not alone when I say "It's about time! Thanks, Phillips!"

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  3. Who, me? by FFFish · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Cheatsheet? Er, no, ma'am -- look, it's blank paper..."

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  4. So finally.. by ZaneMcAuley · · Score: 1, Funny

    We can wipe our ass with the computer if it crashes again?`

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  5. hmmm... by axioein · · Score: 5, Funny

    Immagine the paper airplane I could make out of tihs.... It would be the most hi-tech paper plane... It could have an inflight video!

  6. Cluster by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    And now just imagine a toilet paper roll of these!

  7. A fleuro-pink area between right and wrong by JohnPM · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...and has the added bonus of providing 256 grey shades of gray.

    In related news, researches in Zurich have been making inroads into using flamingo enzymes to make e-paper. Currently the technique allows only for 256 grey shades of fleurescent pink, but Chief Scientist Dr Fandango promises - "It grows on you".

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  8. Re:256 grey shades of gray? by scorcherer · · Score: 5, Funny

    The next thing they'll 'innovate' is a whiter shade of pale.

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  9. Wow! by he-sk · · Score: 2, Funny

    I mean: 256 grey shades of gray! Way cool!

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