First Touch-Screen, Bendable E-Paper Developed

Posted by timothy on Tuesday March 3, 2009 @05:40AM 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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First words written on touch E-Paper? by Anonymous Coward · 2009-03-03 05:43 · Score: -1, Offtopic

All your base are belong to us.
Re:Sounds cool by v1 · 2009-03-03 06:12 · Score: -1, Offtopic

You should never loose sight of the fact that their are going to be people that speak a different variety of English than your used to hearing.

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