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Fujitsu Debuts Bendable Electronic Paper

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the hot-sheet dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Fujitsu today announced their joint development of the world's first film substrate-based bendable color electronic paper with an image memory function. The new electronic paper features vivid color images that are unaffected even when the screen is bent, and features an image memory function that enables continuous display of the same image without the need for electricity. The thin and flexible electronic paper uses very low power to change screen images, thereby making it ideal for displaying information or advertisements in public areas as a type of new electronic media that can be handled as easily as paper. The jointly developed electronic paper will be showcased at Fujitsu Forum 2005, to be held July 14 and 15 at Tokyo International Forum."

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  1. Help...(useful) ideas needed. by Horus1664 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This looks great but can some people please think of better applications than advertising...

    Surely Fujitsu have more exotic plans for this technology than curved posters ?

    1. Re:Help...(useful) ideas needed. by aarku · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Pornography, of course. What else drives the innovation of media more?

    2. Re:Help...(useful) ideas needed. by SeaFox · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Take those expressway billboards and put up Amber Alerts on them. Instead of the dot matrix text message we have on highway overpass displays, we can do full color pictures with the child's stats. The technology allows us to easily change and remove the image when the child is found (via Wi-Fi or cellular connection to Police headquarters).

    3. Re:Help...(useful) ideas needed. by jericho4.0 · · Score: 2, Insightful

      That really cool, but not real yet, OLED keyboard thingy.

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    4. Re:Help...(useful) ideas needed. by Punboy · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Well, how about a roll up display you can take with you. A single newspaper, that updates every day. A single book that allows you to simply download new books to it to read, instead of having to waste money (and trees) printing them. Screw having to print multiple new copies of things, just upload the new copy to the piece of paper. Embed an RFID in the paper to store the data, and use an RFID writer to replace the data. :-D

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    5. Re:Help...(useful) ideas needed. by schlick · · Score: 2, Insightful

      We WANT this to be used in advertising!!! We want many and huge signs made of this. That way the technology becomes cheaper then the average Joe can get it and come up with usefull implementations.

      How about Cell Phone display. If it such a power saver, imagine how this could lengthen the life of any small device that requires a display. When the refresh rate gets high enough imagine potential for wearable computing. Flexibility is only one of the things this tech brings. The fact that it is so thin (and hopefully light weight) and uses so little power make it great for solar powered applications.

      I say let the advertisers foot the bill at first and then it will be cheaper for home inventors.

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  2. cartridges by Rickler · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Yay, no more dealing with expensive printer cartridges!

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  3. Electronic Paper and EPIC by tfoudray · · Score: 2, Insightful

    am I the first one to think of this?

    EPIC 2014

  4. My first thought... by Infinityis · · Score: 2, Insightful

    This will bring new meaning to a funny image I saw that had the hand-written message "I kant tipe so i rite on the screen wit a krayon"

    Seriously though, I've seen enough professors accidentally write on a projector screen (instead of the whiteboard behind it) and leave a relatively permanent mark. I can only imagine how many people will accidentally jot down a quick note to later realize they just ruined a VERY expensive piece of paper...

  5. nifty by utexaspunk · · Score: 5, Insightful

    it looks like it needs a little work in the area of color and resolution, but that's sure to come.

    One thing that I think will really benefit from these reflective display technologies is classrooms and conference rooms. What I would really like to see would be a chalkboard-sized reflective display with a digitizer pen. Without dimming the lights like one would have to do with a projector (and thus lulling students to sleep), a teacher could write directly on it as well as have problems already in the computer to put up on it quickly. How much time in math classes is spent writing out problems? Word problems from all these standardized tests could be quickly thrown up on the board and the teacher could directly model how to solve them. It could really increase a teacher's efficacy as well as make their life a lot easier.

    Later on, similar technologies could be built into desks (or the students could have tablets) so that the student can solve them at their desks and then the teacher could push a button and display the students' work on the board.

  6. Ponder.. by oldwolf13 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    How many years am I going to be hearing about electronic paper (or printable displays for that matter), before the damn things actually come out and I can buy them?

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  7. Oh, great! by FridayBob · · Score: 2, Insightful

    ... thereby making it ideal for displaying information or advertisements in public areas...

    Just what we need: more spam. As if people today didn't suffer enough advertising already.