E-readers are a great tool, but the one big disadvantage is that they're made of breakable glass and sensitive electronics that can get damaged when dropped. Books, by contrast, are pretty durable.
LG Display has brought flexible, light and tough e-readers a little closer to reality. The company announced that it is mass-producing a flexible electronic paper display, or EPD.
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It's called the XGA, and is 6" across, smaller than most tablets and bigger than a phone. LG says the e-reader can handle getting bent up to 40 degrees and is only 0.7 millimeters thick -- about the same as six sheets of typical office paper and slimmer than typical displays. It also weighs less than half an ounce. It has a resolution of 1024 x 768 pixels, which is as good as any current e-reader.
As for toughness, LG says the display can handle getting dropped 1.5 meters, or a hair under five feet. That's about where most people would hold an e-reader standing up.
This isn't the first flexible display -- AU Optronics unveiled one in November -- but this is the first that has gone into real production. LG says the breakthrough was in manufacturing. Instead of building the back of the display with breakable glass, they built it with plastic, which is why it can bend. The press release isn't clear on exactly how LG got the e-ink display to work on a plastic substrate, but they did.
It won't be in any real e-readers for a while yet -- the first releases are going to Chinese companies, and to European manufacturers next month.
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fucking awesome.
Newspaper of the future.
Do Want.
E-readers aren't really that fragile, my Kindle's been pretty reliable and there's no glass in it. Still, this is pretty cool and I'd like one.
Dammit, I mistook the article name for
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In any case, portable readers of this sort are an interesting idea; wonder just how far they'll take it eventually.
Oh man, bent up to 40 degrees?
It would suck if you bent it more and it snapped.
So you can ruin it by folding it?
Fucking awesome
This is a great step forward. Of course saving all the books on one device puts them at risk, in case the device is damaged. Therefore the E-reader of the future will have one book per device, for your books safety.
And to help reading comfort it's become thick to increase grip.
For extra immersion virtual holographic page-turning is now also possible. And it will have covers to protect it. With only one book per device, this means the cover can be customized for the book in question, making it easy to locate and esthetically pleasing.
Ladies, gentlemen. I give you the E-reader of the future!
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[QUOTE=mac338;35376864]This is a great step forward. Of course saving all the books on one device puts them at risk, in case the device is damaged. Therefore the E-reader of the future will have one book per device, for your books safety.
And to help reading comfort it's become thick to increase grip.
For extra immersion virtual holographic page-turning is now also possible. And it will have covers to protect it. With only one book per device, this means the cover can be customized for the book in question, making it easy to locate and esthetically pleasing.
Ladies, gentlemen. I give you the E-reader of the future!
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Now if they came in Orange instead of Black and White they'd be just like the newspapers in Deus Ex HR.
Awesome, now I can fold the corner into so I can remember where I left off.
[QUOTE=TheLolrus;35376153]E-readers aren't really that fragile, my Kindle's been pretty reliable and there's no glass in it. Still, this is pretty cool and I'd like one.[/QUOTE]
I broke my previous e reader by accidentally pushing the screen with my elbow
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I can speak and understand Spanish but this guy's accent is killing me. Spain is terrible at it's own language.
[QUOTE=Sickle;35376496]Oh man, bent up to 40 degrees?
It would suck if you bent it more and it snapped.[/QUOTE]
I get the feeling there's going to be a lot of people calling it a shitty product because it breaks too easily because they keep trying to see how much it can be bent
[QUOTE=CaptainQuirk;35377059]I can speak and understand Spanish but this guy's accent is killing me. Spain is terrible at it's own language.[/QUOTE]
His lisp too!
I always imagined that invention as a kid. The replacement for paper, a super thin bendable screen that supports touch keyboard and a stylus or just your fingers. Actually I am thinking more of on the lines of a super thin ipad, but in the same shape as a normal sheet of paper.
I always wanted this:
A small cube that you put onto a window/mirror which makes a screen that takes up the entire object. On that is a touchscreen hologram thingy that is attached to the mirror/window and you can browse the internet and stuff like that. No need for computers as it is portable.
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[QUOTE=OvB;35376071]Newspaper of the future.[/QUOTE]
Fuck thats what I was going to say.
I am so ready for softscreens to become a real thing, they've been a sci-fi staple for decades.
Is this a real thing or a april fools..
Probably true because such technology have been in development for a while
Soon we can have the newspapers from Harry Potter in real life.
I remember when around 2003 I was reading a science article which told that every newspaper will be replaced by e-ink displayed
The sad part is that the technology have already been developed on the same level as today
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