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PrintDisplay: DIY Displays and Touchscreens Anyone Can Print

Posted by samzenpus on from the print-and-watch dept.

Zothecula writes For years now, we've been promised miraculous new flexible touchscreen displays, but the deployment of such technology in big consumer products, like say the LG G Flex, hasn't started any revolutions just yet. That could soon change thanks to a team of computer scientists from Germany's Saarland University who have developed a technique that could allow anyone to literally print their own custom displays, including touchscreens."

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  1. Electroluminescent display by monkeyxpress · · Score: 3, Informative

    Interesting project, and some of their samples look quite cool. Only issue I see is that it is EL tech, which requires a rather annoying high voltage step up inverter to drive (around 200V). You used to be able to buy EL sheets that you could cut holes and stuff in to create custom displays, which was quite cool, so this is sort of just a variation of that. EL fell out of favour once LED took over as it was harder to drive and not particularly efficient. Anyway looks like it could be quite a cool system for getting people enthused about engineering/electronics if they can make the print system cheap enough.