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First Touch-Screen, Bendable E-Paper Developed

Posted by timothy on from the don't-sign-contracts-written-on-this dept.

Al writes "The first touch-screen flexible e-paper has been developed by a team from Arizona State University and E-Ink (the company that makes the technology for Amazon's Kindle and Sony's Reader). Jann Kaminski and colleagues at ASU's Flexible Display Center say the main challenge is that most touch-screen technologies do not respond well to being flexed. So they used an inductive screen, which relies on a magnetized styluses to induce a field in a sensing layer at the back of the display. The first adopters for the technology are likely to be the US Army. Watch a video of the device being tested."

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  1. How flexible? by eclectro · · Score: 3, Funny

    Will it blend?

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  2. Easy! by spacemky · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm not impressed. I can do this with my current LCD Screen. Watch thi*#&$&#*((*#

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    1. Re:Easy! by Benzido · · Score: 4, Funny

      You flexed your keyboard, not your screen! Watcg thia: I;m flezing my LCS screeen now...

  3. theres a train tunnel in my room! by Windows_NT · · Score: 3, Funny

    That makes me imagine playing wylie coyote tricks on my girl friend ... Where did the door go? its over here ... THWACK!

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  4. Re:Sounds cool by ColdWetDog · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yeah. I don't think people could ever deal with those projectors. I mean, gosh, people are dying every day by those things.

    I wanted to kill, just slowly torture, the author of the last Powerpoint presentation I was forced to sit through. I truly contemplated taking the projector, picking it up and bashing his skull with it. I don't think I'm alone in this.

    It just might be safer to have soft, roll up screens. Or just software that prohibits Powerpoint from displaying anything but black.

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  5. Re:All Right by Aladrin · · Score: 5, Funny

    Oh God. That's... Ow. Imagine MySpace, but in everyone's living room.

    Seriously, man. Be careful what you wish for.

    Some day, I'm going to say 'Oh man, you remember the Goatse wallpaper virus of 2024? What month that was.

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  6. I've tried something similar... by dfisheratt · · Score: 5, Funny

    Only mine had one other cool feature...You could lift the plastic cover to erase. Here's a link to a pic... http://www.schylling.com/Creative-Play/MGSL-2.jpg

  7. Re:Sounds cool by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Have you held a newspaper recently?
    Do you know how hard it is to read ONE article, and then put it away? Think making origami out of linen instead of paper. It's that hard.

  8. Re:Sounds cool by keefus_a · · Score: 4, Funny

    And don't forget, France could make their flags out of it for the next time someone invades! Kidding, calm down. Goodbye karma, hello 'troll' mods.