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Flexible, Color OLED Screens For E-Readers

Posted by Soulskill on from the still-waiting-on-a-kindle-killer dept.

nadiskafadi writes "Taiwanese researchers have shown off several flexible display technologies in an endeavor to promote e-readers and e-paper. One of the newest technologies from the Industrial Technology Research Institute was a flexible 4.1-inch color OLED (organic light emitting diode) display, which it claims is for the next era of portable devices."

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  1. The problem with an OLED e-reader is the E. by Oscar_Wilde · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Oh for goodness sake!

    The last thing you want in an e-reader is for it to be light emitting. There's a reason we're putting so much effort into developing better eInk displays.

    The only people who don't seem to understand this are the ones who don't read much or haven't read much on an eInk screen. It's a huge improvement over anything that works by shining light directly into your eyes.

    1. Re:The problem with an OLED e-reader is the E. by bertok · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Yeah, I've always wondered about that. If you go back a mere 130 years, the only sources of emitted light a person would ever see (off the top of my head) were:

      Sun
      Fire
      Stars
      Lightening
      Auroras
      Lightening bugs, etc
      Foxfire, etc
      Fish (or were they too deep then?)

      So everything the human eye ever saw was reflected light. Since the advent of the television, people began watching and focusing on emitted light directly, and computers, cell phones, etc have taken that even further.

      So what, if anything, does that mean to human vision?

      Absolutely nothing, light is light, irrespective of the source.

  2. Ah yes... by denzacar · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The "I am the center of the Universe and all should conform to my unimaginative desires" approach.
    Damn! I wish I came up with that philosophy first.

    Gee.. Who would ever want a thin flexible display that could be bent or rolled up? Madness! Madness I say!
    Naah... let's just make displays that are big enough and cheap enough for YOUR needs.

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  3. Re:No! Larger please. by The+Evil+Couch · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Why is it they have to step forwards to color already? What I want is much larger greyscale displays with better contrast for cheaper. Seriously, give me a U.S. Letter size display with better contrast for under $100 and I will jump on the e-reader bandwagon.

    Because that's a false dichotomy? They're going to need to go color eventually and there's no reason that research into both cheaper, bigger monochrome displays and color displays can't be done simultaneously.

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