The Philips Research Lab in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, has unveiled an idea which may soon be able to bring a moving image to a foldable screen.
“With [the process, called] electrowetting, however, pixels can switch states in around 10 milliseconds — fast enough to generate 100 new images a second. TV-quality video only requires 25 images per second. And the high reflectivity and contrast of the wetting displays make them much clearer: colour displays are four times as bright as LCDs and twice as bright as rival e-paper technologies.
Nature (which first published the story in its latest issue): “In principle, a plastic sheet covered with electronic ink could display an entire library, page by page. The information would be stored in a portable chip, and the display would be powered by a slimline, lightweight battery. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix would weigh no more than a feather.”
Reuters: Not only does e-paper work on very low voltages, but its light weight and great flexibility give it a multitude of potential applications from computer screens to wearable cinematic suits….With an e-paper screen sewn into a jacket, wearers could read e-mail or even watch the news on their sleeves while hot-footing it from one meeting to another.
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