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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).

  2. 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.