Philips Improves Electronic Paper

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.

Comments

I can't wait

[abe ferlman]

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!"

Who, me?

[FFFish]

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

hmmm...

[axioein]

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!

Re:256 grey shades of gray?

[scorcherer]

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