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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. Magnetic stylus != touch screen by EmbeddedJanitor · · Score: 3, Informative

    There is a growing perception that touch means touch - using your finger. Using an inert stylus (like Windows Mobile devices) is a very poor second. But having to use a special purpose magnetic stylus is a FAIL.

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  2. Re:sure the display is flexible, but the backlight by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    e-ink displays have no back lights. That thing in the back was likely the magnetic sensor.

  3. Re:Failure on video! by RMingin · · Score: 4, Informative

    Actually not, that row and column are light from the get-go, rewind and rewatch. I'm also not sure, but that could be a reflection.

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  4. Re:Sounds cool by The+Grim+Reefer2 · · Score: 3, Informative

    "bended"? C'mon, I know /. is the home of the "offline illiterate", but "bended"?

    While "bended" is archaic, it's still grammatically correct.