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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."
It conspicuously says nothing about whether you can apply a backlight to it.
But front-light readability is great for us Slashdotters who go outside and work :)
Those of us who think they know everything annoy those of us who do.
Awesome, I can now have a convenient way of looking at 100s of galleries of porn when I'm in the bathroom!
That might also be nice to use for head up displays in cars.. or even to put over my living room window to change the view :)
I just can't be bothered.
yes, to space elevator advertisements
"A waterproof MP3 player built for bright beach days is the first device with a color "e-paper" display, meaning it has no backlighting and thus can be read in direct sunlight. The display, from Qualcomm, consists of two layers of a reflective material. Some wavelengths of light bounce off the first layer; some pass through and bounce off the second. Interference between the two beams creates the color, and electrostatic forces control the distance between the layers."
http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/21561/?a=f
Shai Schticks:"You don't make peace with friends, you make peace with enemies"
Cold-hearted orb, that rules the night,
removes the colors from our sight.
Red is gray, and yellow white.
But we decide which is right.
And which is an illusion?
The Moody Blues, Nights in White Satin
Everyone might want to stay away from the paper shredder with these - It will either destroy the blades or make some pretty nasty, toxic dust.
:)
Might do both.
Fact: Everything I say is fiction.
I'd be more impressed if they made them out of Copper Nanotubes (CuNT).
You're not quite right. We also have a dozen new ways to produce them cheaply, quickly, and efficiently each year, but never see any mass production. Why? I don't know, they never follow up on the almost monthly articles about the newest, cheapest way to produce nanotubes. I would call out a government conspiracy, but I only have the energy to fight 3 or 4 conspiracies at a time. So I'm guessing it's probably just media hype. you know, so we can think the world will become perfect any day now, so we can stop worrying and calm down and accept the government's rule over our lives. You know, cuz it's a big conspiracy. Down with big brother!!!
The path to enlightenment is truly through homemade drugs!
i hope all british people die.
You will be delighted to discover that all British people do, in fact, die.
For the men, you need only wait 76.9 years before death is statistically likely; for the females it's a slightly longer period of eager anticipation: 81.2 years on average before your wish is fulfilled.
Jolly good show, eh, old boy?
Let my new 7-digit UID be a lesson to all - write down your passwords.
Open ink pot has released the first "free" Linux firmware to run on e-readers:
http://openinkpot.org/
A workable e-reader would have a market here which is initially niche but would then provide the revenue to get to the fully commercialised A4 e-reader - which makes electronic delivery of newspapers and magazines fully practical. The decline in value of internet content is driven by the advertiser-funded model. Paid-for services offering real value would love a locked down e-reader. (and I personally don't mind paying for worthwhile services. By buying a subscription to e.g. Scientific American, I help guarantee its editorial independence and ability to fund articles that would lose certain advertisers.)
Proof of concept of a workable full page e-reader, during a recession when people are looking for disruptive technologies that may offer a good return? This could easily be the most important thing on Slashdot this week.
From scarped cliff or quarried stone she cries "A thousand types are gone, I care for nothing, no not one."
What the hell does "almost completely translucent" mean? Does "completely translucent" = transparent?
Isn't 'translucent' merely a descriptor for a state somewhere between transparent and opaque?
-Styopa
Uh, carbon nanotubes are used in quite a few common items, like electronics, golf clubs, tennis rackets and mountain bike handlebars.
What we can't do very easily is manufacture strong materials composed of aligned nanotubes (aka space elevator unobtanium).