Paper-Thin TV Screens

This is causing some waves in the market, ranging from the food industry to well, our own media industry: German electronics giant Siemens has unveiled cheap, paper-thin TV screens that can be used in newspapers and magazines, and also the food packaging industry.

The firm says the low production costs could see the magazine shelves in newsagents come alive with moving images vying for the customers’ attention as they move along the aisle… the new screens, which are literally paper thin, can do everything a regular TV screen or computer monitor can do, but cost a fraction of the price.

The Siemens spokesman said that one square metre of the material costs around $50, and scientists working on the screens said they should be available by 2007.

Some more technical details in this story….

A picture of the paper is here

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