Forget e-Readers, it seems digital newspapers may be with us sooner than we think. LG has announced plans to begin mass production of what it says is the world’s first electronic paper. The flexible paper is a 6-inch screen that can bend up to 40 degrees. It beckons the possibility of newspapers and magazines with moving images. It’s the stuff of science fiction, only it’s very real.
LG hopes the 6-inch 1024×768 pixel resolution E-Paper Display (EPD) will revolutionise the e-book market, and believes flexible displays such as this will soon be applied to more tech in future.
“Based on our success in mass-producing plastic EPD, we are excited as we look toward applying concepts from this experience to future developments like plastic OLED and flexible displays”, Sang Duck Yeo, Head of Operations for LG Display’s Mobile/OLED division said of the display.
It will offer a “paper-like” reading experience, and is as slim as a phone’s protective film, so as well as being more flexible, displays can be made slimmer than existing glass displays without sacrificing on durability.
Applied to handsets, it could mean that future smartphones will be that much more tougher. Dropping your phone won’t cause its screen to shatter into bits. How about the possibility of folding tablets? Is E-Paper the future?
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