MAKE IT MORE LIKE PAPER

Ultra-thin screen is step towards electronic newspaper (Ananova, 7th May 2003)

An ultra-thin screen that can display electronic text while being bent, twisted or even rolled up has been developed by scientists.

The material stops short of being a true electronic newspaper since it cannot be folded in half.

But it is the most significant step yet towards practical e-papers and wearable computer screens.

The screen is only as thick as three human hairs and displays black text on a whitish-grey background, with a resolution similar to that of a typical laptop.

It is so flexible it can be rolled into a cylinder about half an inch wide without losing any image quality.

Yu Chen and colleagues at the E Ink Corporation in Cambridge, Massachusetts, described the development in the journal Nature.

Somewhere, John Naisbitt smiles. Posted by Orrin Judd at May 8, 2003 8:06 AM