Fujitsu's flexible, low-power color screen
By Barb Dybwad 
posted July 13th 2005 9:12AM
posted July 13th 2005 9:12AM
Okay, so everyone and their grandma seems to be prototyping some sort of flexible display these days, and Fujitsu's rolling in with their offering, which features low power consumption and, in fact, requires no power whatsoever to display the last image before power is cut (and if anyone can tell us why that's supposed to be really useful, by all means). Yeah, don't get too excited, neither, 'cuz it still won't be commercialized anytime soon.
How the heck does this thing work?? If it's an OLED than the organic polymer should be generating light... which would require power. Is this acting more like an LCD screen except with a flexible organic layer? The only other thing I can think of would involve using parts of the device as photovoltaics to generate the voltage to power the rest of it.