A SIMPLE yet ingenious idea may finally make ‘electronic paper’ a realistic prospect. If so, you could one day peruse an animated version of your daily newspaper on a flexible wireless display that unfurls like a roller-blind.
Until now, attempts to make e-paper have been dogged by sluggish pixels – the paper can’t switch images fast enough to display video or animations. And the brightness of images has been disappointing, especially for colour. But now Robert Hayes and BJ Feenstra at Philips Research Laboratories in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, have unveiled an idea that they say overcomes both problems at a…
