[NTLK] [OT] Touch-Screen, Bendable E-Paper

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| First Touch-Screen, Bendable E-Paper Developed |
| from the don't-sign-contracts-written-on-this dept. |
| posted by timothy on Tuesday March 03, @12:40 (Displays) |
| http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/03/03/173255 |
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[0]Al writes "The [1]first touch-screen flexible e-paper has been
developed by a team from Arizona State University and E-Ink (the company
that makes the technology for Amazon's Kindle and Sony's Reader). Jann
Kaminski and colleagues at ASU's [2]Flexible Display Center say the main
challenge is that most touch-screen technologies do not respond well to
being flexed. So they used an inductive screen, which relies on a
magnetized styluses to induce a field in a sensing layer at the back of
the display. The first adopters for the technology are likely to be the
US Army. Watch a [3]video of the device being tested."

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Links:
    0. http://www.technologyreview.com/
    1. http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/22232/
    2. http://flexdisplay.asu.edu/
    3. http://www.youtube.com/flexibledisplay

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Received on Fri Mar 6 11:44:19 2009