Samsung's New Carbon Nanotube Color E-Paper

Iddo Genuth writes to tell us that Samsung and Unidym have shown the world's first carbon nanotube-based color e-paper. Interestingly, the new film is electrically conductive while remaining almost completely translucent and only 50 nanometers thick. "The company also mentions that the EPD [electrophoretic displays] has important advantages over conventional flat panel displays. EPDs have very low power consumption and bright light readability, which means that even under bright lights or sunlight, the user would be able to view the display clearly. Furthermore, since the device uses the thin CNT films, applications can include e-paper and displays with thin, flexible substrates. Power consumption is lowered due to the EPD's ability to reflect light and therefore able to preserve text or images on the display without frequently refreshing."

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Re:Colored ePaper is nice and all, but. . .

[RuBLed]

yes, to space elevator advertisements

Re:Cancerous 'paper'

[Miseph]

You mean I shouldn't just crush up random things and snort them? What will I do?

Holy shit dude, that just rocked my world. I don't know how I'll be able to go on knowing that the world isn't made of pixie dust, happy thoughts and unicorn spit... or that if it is, all of those things cause cancer. Guess I'll just have to keep not inhaling, eating, injecting, humping, smoking or otherwise being stupid with everything I come across without regard to the possibility of consequence.