Roll-up computer screen
Holland’s Philips Electronics says it’s getting ready to mass-produce a display panel onto which consumers could download newspapers and magazines – and then roll it up and put it away.
“The 5-inch display, which can show detailed images, can be rolled up into a pen-sized holder,” says a Reuters report here. “If connected to a mobile phone, it can also be used to download web pages, a book or email.”
Shades of the movie Red Planet.
Philips said it had created the displays using electronics circuits made of plastics, which power a monochrome display created with technology from E Ink, a privately-held US company from Cambridge, Massachusetts.
“We can produce this in batches. It’s no longer a research project. We’re going to build a pilot line that should be ready in 2005 to make one million displays a year,” a spokesman at Philips Research is quoted as saying.
The price hasn’t been set, but Philips said it’ll be in the range of current thin glass models.
