Electronic Paper

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<div class="IPBDescription">you know .those pieces of paper that mov</div> <img src='http://www.nature.com/nsu/030922/images/eink_180.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image'>

<!--QuoteBegin--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Paper capable of playing videos has been invented at the Philips Research laboratory in Eindhoven, the Netherlands1.

A single sheet looks pretty much like ordinary paper. But the ink can be rearranged electronically fast enough to show video movies.

Its devisers, Robert Hayes and Johan Feenstra, have also figured out how to create full-colour displays. Their colour screens would be four times brighter than the flat devices currently made from liquid crystals, they reckon.

The invention is the latest version of 'electronic ink'. Researchers hope to combine the convenience, robustness and readability of printed material with the vast and flexible information content of laptop computers.

In principle, a plastic sheet covered with electronic ink could display an entire library, page by page. The information would be stored in a portable chip, and the display would be powered by a slimline, lightweight battery. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix would weigh no more than a feather.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->

<a href='http://www.nature.com/nsu/030922/030922-10.html' target='_blank'>http://www.nature.com/nsu/030922/030922-10.html</a>

This paper can refresh at 80 times per second which good enough for video, or a game of ns....

discuss the implications of this technology and anything else you want to add.

<a href='http://www.nature.com/nsu/030505/030505-6.html' target='_blank'>older article about eletronic ink but can't display video</a>

TyrNemesis

I think it's going to revolutionize the usefulness of small-screen devices, such as palm pilots, hand-held games, cellular phones, and maybe even pagers. These devices have heretofore lacked the resolution and refresh speeds to be useful for anything but simple applications. Bringing a low-power consumption, high-refresh, extremely thin screen material into play means all of that will change.

Imagine connecting to your favorite NS server via the sub-etha network and playing a game of NS controlled via neural link with a paper-thin screen as your display. You could play in a bus station! <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->

Of course, this technology is still in its infancy--we will doubtless see a lot of failure products in the beginning... that's just the way Philips' R&D works. Those of you who've played NS with me can attest to that fact--my microphone (which is ratchety and sounds like crap) Is a first-generation Philips product.

My Philips 150MT flatscreen, however, a 2nd-gen product, performs better than I could have dreamed...

Bogglesteinsky

the black and white version works by havign lots of little capsules of blacn and white particles. the black particles are positively charged and the white are negatively charged. the system works by sending electromagentic charges across the surface of the ink - when the charge is positive, the white particles get sent to the top turning the capsule white, when a negative charge goes across, it turns black. By varying the strength of the charge, they can produce any shade of grey. it is really remarkable, and no doubt will revolutionise the paper industry.

(not that i want to read HPATOOTP anyway...)

snozzle

that.
is.
awsome.

Stakhanov

Damn , this thing is old. The said devisers must have bumped into loads of technical problems...

Forlorn

Wow.... takes reading to a whole new level.

Iced_Eagle

that is really cool

i remember hearing about the paper that did something like that but had white and black balls that changed magnetically so not really digital

This will revolutinize all laptop screens for sure <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo--> maybe ebook has some competition... maybe they could invent book chips to plug in and read and then watch the movie!! haha cool stuff

P-Khan

This will most definatly revolutinise the world. It will be like those sci-fi moveis, where the libraries don't have books, but chips and other things similar.
It is like, a laptop which is even easier to carry around and to read.

I went to this site once which explained how this worked. It was <a href='http://www.howstuffworks.com' target='_blank'>How Stuff Works.com</a>

2_of_Eight

It's a good thing. Yet another way to save Earth's precious resources.

AllUrHiveRblong2us

Pretty nifty stuff, I wonder how sturdy it is....