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Light-Emitting Polymer Displays

Posted by michael on from the it-always-comes-back-to-plastic dept.

BlackSol writes "Yahoo is covering a very cool piece on the development of roll-up screens. Possible uses from home televisions, to tele-watches, and military uses such as real-time satalite fed maps in the field."

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  1. Multi-layer tv? by Ignavus+Anonymous · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Will this open the possibility for 3D tv using multiple transparant layers?

    Or perhaps the multi-channel edition where you have a book with 100 pages: every page is another chanel. Nice and convenient during the commecial breaks :)

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  2. Adaptive Camo, anyone? by CommieLib · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Weave this bad boy into a full body suit, mount micro cameras throughout, project the image seen behind.

    Voila! Predator. From twenty feet or so, anyway.

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  3. Printing Circuits by icb1000 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    One of the other pretty cool technologies being developed by the guys at Plastic Logic (a spin off company created by the same people from Cambridge University who formed CDT) is the ability to create full electronic devices by using an inkjet printer loaded with a cartridge of these conductive polymers. It would be pretty cool to be able to see a useful device on a web page, download the circuit, print it out of your inkjet and then have the working device straight away.

  4. Rollup screens = ultimate portable PCs by pieterh · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I've been dreaming of my ultimate portable for some time, and this - roll-up screens - was all that was missing. I have a roll-up waterproof keyboard that works quite well. Imagine the guts of a notebook PC (no CD, keyboard, screen), a kind of brick the size of a stack of CDs. Fits into your pocket. You can add a flat battery underneath for portable use. You can plug in a roll-up screen and keyboard when you're on the road. At the office you dock it into your main notebook or desktop - synchronizing all your data, updating your email, etc.

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  5. Re:Welcome to the Diamond Age by dschuetz · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The first one we'll see will be the sort that is more or less permanently installed, and can therefore be plugged into the wall all or some of the time.

    That's what I want. I mean, ActiveDesktop is cool, and all, and I've got webcams and wether reports and traffic cameras and the like on my desktop, but at any given moment maybe 90% of my screen is covered with windows. And if I were to hook up a third monitor, I'd want to use it as more desktop space, not as a permanent "information poster."

    But, if I could have a 3x2 foot "poster" hanging on the wall of my office, plugged into the USB port on the computer, and feed data to it, then that'd be great. I could put up webcams, stock tickers, anything that'd be interesting to see but not important enough to keep in a foreground window.

    It'd be great to be able to simply glance up and say "ugh, traffic's getting bad, I'd better head home soon."

    So, where do I sign up?