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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. repeat! by tplayford · · Score: 1, Redundant

    This has been reported already, silly timothy.

  2. This article is a duplicate by Omega+Prime · · Score: 0, Redundant

    This acticle is a duplicate of one posted just last week

    Different link, same topic.

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  3. Er ... by innit · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Sorry, but do Slashdot authors live on different planets to each other or something?

    http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/12/06/044420 9&mode=thread

    Posted on THURSDAY

  4. Heh by soulsteal · · Score: 1, Redundant

    This makes it cheaper to produce and has the added bonus of providing 256 grey shades of gray .

    Article description provided by the Department of Redundancy Department.

  5. 256 grey shades of gray? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Redundant

    "providing 256 grey shades of gray."

    shit i wanted 256 BLUE shades of gray.

    & which is it grey or gray? are you canadian or what eh?