Plastic electronics?
January 3, 2007 by Matthew
Plastic Logic, which I mentioned briefly in a previous post, just announced that they will be building the first factory to mass produce plastic electronics. The first products that they will be cranking out are flexible active-matrix display modules for electronic reader products. These modules are based on E Ink technology (which I have discussed before) and will be very thin and light. In other words, they will be getting closer to the feel of paper than any other current technology and will be much better than the Sony Reader display.
These first display modules created in the Plastic Logic factory will most likely be grayscale, but it is very exciting to think that we are that much closer to a commercially-produced display that will be able to replicate the actual physical size and feel of a magazine or newspaper.
[...] Polymer Vision’s rollable displays are based on technology from DuPont Teijin Films, SiPix, and E Ink. We have discussed E Ink’s technology many times before; their technology seems to be involved in almost all the new reading-focused display technologies that are being developed. [...]