Hicel have made a brochure for Hyundai Yachts, using a flexible segmented E Ink display (SURF displays):
It looks very much like the Esquire magazine cover display...
LG are showing new ePaper technology, with a flexible 11.5" prototype. The display is also a touchscreen. We don't have a lot of info yet, beside this photo:
HP announces a new display technology called Electronic Skins. eSkins is a flexible reflective color film, that can alos display icons or alpha-numeric characters.
HP eSkins technology offers brand manufacturers new ways to personalize their products with an electronically controlled color surface created using HPâs breakthrough roll-to-roll manufacturing platform. Designed to make fine-scale circuitry on plastic substrates, the platform processes flexible screens in rolls rather than individual sheets, offering the potential for more cost-effective manufacturing.
This new device architecture is compatible with roll-to-roll plastic circuits that can be combined with proprietary, electrically controllable âinksâ to achieve print-like color performance, as well as transparency. Using a technology similar to color printing, HP is developing the capability to produce specific âinkâ colors within the PANTONE MATCHING SYSTEM® range. The vibrant, print-quality colors have excellent visibility in direct sunlight and can electronically shift into a transparent state, revealing the surface below the eSkins film.
E Ink announced today that their segmented display product line is now called SURF. Over 15 million products with E Ink segmented display have been sold already, including the Samsung Alias 2 phone, the new Phosphor wristwatches, the Esquire magazine cover and the Lexmark jumpdrive.
SURF displays are ultra-thin, rugged and flexible. They are ideal for consumer electronics, medical devices, PC-accessory, display smartcards, capacity indicators, electronic shelf labels, signage and communications applications.
Polymer Vision's Readius, which was actually planned for release last year is delayed - because of financial difficulties.
The Readius has a 16-grayscale 320x240 5" e ink based display. When closed the size is 115x57x21mm, and when you open the display, it's 160x115x21mm.
The San Francisco Chronicle reports that the Hearst Corp has its own E-reader planned for 2010.
Apart from also using E Ink, which Hearst invested in, and a similar flexible display technology, we don't know much about it because Hearst isn't saying much. We're pretty sure the technology comes from FirstPaper, a "stealth startup," backed by Hearst.
The Flexible Display Center (FDC) in Arizona University has developed a flexible touch e ink display - that's the first of its kind.
The device that was demonstrated uses plastic materials as a substitute for the glass found in conventional touch screens; the flexible Teonex® polyethylene napthalate (PEN) substrate was supplied by Dupont. It is powered by amorphous silicon thin-film transistors fabricated on the plastic substrate.
