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<blockquote data-quote="net1" data-source="post: 20065">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.The screen, which is less than 0.3 millimetres thick, was made using a foil topped with a thin layer of transistor circuits. These supply opposing voltages to different areas of an overlying film of special electronic ink.The ink consists of millions of tiny capsules of charge-sensitive black or white pigment. A negative voltage causes the white particles to move to the surface, while a positive one brings up the black ones.The resulting patterns of black or white topped capsules are what creates the text.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="net1, post: 20065"] 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. The screen, which is less than 0.3 millimetres thick, was made using a foil topped with a thin layer of transistor circuits. These supply opposing voltages to different areas of an overlying film of special electronic ink. The ink consists of millions of tiny capsules of charge-sensitive black or white pigment. A negative voltage causes the white particles to move to the surface, while a positive one brings up the black ones. The resulting patterns of black or white topped capsules are what creates the text. [/QUOTE]

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