THE prototype still-image display unveiled at London’s National Gallery this week looked far from ready for the high street, but Hewlett-Packard is confident that the revolutionary liquid-crystal display technology it has developed will ultimately lead to ultra high-resolution flat screens ranging in size from a magazine page to an advertising billboard. What’s more, they will use far less power than ordinary LCD screens, and can be made using cheap printing technology.
Giant TV screens that hang on the wall have already escaped from the lab, and electronic displays have appeared as small e-book screens, but they can’t match the resolution…
