Fujitsu has developed a new thin film display that maintains its image and color even while being bent. It also contains built-in Nonvolatile memory to keep the image stable.
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not realy as a oled will only show as long as you pass power thru it. this however is more like a lcd but one where the last change stays until changed again, you dont need to pass power thru a point to maintain it.
so for stationary images, or images that change very little over time (like say the standby screen of a phone where only the clock and the signal strength indicator changes) this can reduce the power use big time.
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Well not really OSNews until we start running an OS with it as our monitor but still its freakin sweet! Imagine if it was touch screen capable too - and your office was wall-e-papered with this stuff - no more complaints about screen realistate and with a wireless keyboard - bliss!
Anyways - back to reality... 
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Xerox's version was much more primitive than that (as you could expect from something created 10 years ago), and it was monochrome.
Another problem on Xerox's version was how to put the data on the thing, it required a machine that looked like a printer..now with technologies such as bluetooth etc that should be simplified, I suppose.
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It would be cool to see this used for books, instead of having to kill trees, flip pages, and use material bookmarks. It could be as simple as downloading a pdf into one of these things and scrolling up or down with a wheel like those on mice. I like my idea, but I don't think this is what these people had in mind :-( .
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the big use isn't so much for books. people want it for magazines, you buy yourself say five to ten pages of electronic paper and then just download the new issue every month, saves the publishing house tons of money (full color printing is not cheap). also makes mass distrubuited things like newspapers and magazines inturn less reliant on advertisers. saving trees is sort of a non issue pulp for paper these days comes from tree farms not forests. what i want to know is the DPI this is capable of i remember reading a few years back in scientific american that that was the main hurdle
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> saving trees is sort of a non issue pulp for paper these days comes from tree farms not forests.
Still, it's environmentaly very bad.
There's a huge paper factory near the city I come from, in Brazil, and those "farms" are terrible since it's like a green desert - you have miles and miles and miles or only 1 type of tree, eucaliptus. It is terrible for the soil, and very few animals can thrive in such a place. So, "green desert" is a very apt name indeed, due to the lack of biodiversity.
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I wonder if you can put this up on your wall in a big enough size to make it work. Do you need to backlight it? Or would your just aim a spotlight at it from the front instead?
A big question for these kind of displays would be how fast is it? If it's meant only for text it's no big deal for a slow display. If they intend to replace LCD tech with it, they'll have to fix the refresh/speed problems.
Another point is cost. I'm not about to replace a bunch of books with a sheet of plastic that costs 100$...
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