Philips shows rollable grayscale display, scoffs at production ideas

We've heard of the promise of rollable displays and their ilk for what seems like decades now, but they're "just around the corner" now, honest. Philips was showing a 5-inch QVGA grayscale display at CES, which lacked touch screen input for the Windows Mobile interface shown, but should hopefully keep the hope alive for seeing these devices sometime this century, especially those hoping for displays that look like messy etchings.

[wxrman Posted Jan 11th 2006 9:18AM]

wonder what kind of response these screens have...

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 11th 2006 9:19AM]

It looks like someone photocopied a PDA.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 11th 2006 9:28AM]

The article doesn't do it justice. When i saw this tucked away in the Philips booth @ CES, i noticed that their implementation with the e-ink screen was way better than that of Sony's e-reader. for those who didn't see both... the e-reader's page refreshes takes a half second to refresh prolly to push the new buffer on the screen, which causes a half second blank screen. this would probably bother those who spend a lot of time with the e-reader. Now Philips on the other hand implemented it differently and there was NO blinking screen upon refreshes. I HAD to talk to the lead engineer about that. It was quite amazing how they did it. there used tft technology under the e-ink screen to refresh the entire screen (patent pending). he said that in their labs they already have full motion vid running 20 fps right now. That s hot! it'll be VERY interesting to see what they roll out in the future.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 11th 2006 2:21PM]

You can WATCH a Video of the "Phillips rollable Display" here ==> http://www.tiempotec.com



The Page has a lot Videos about the CES.



�Salud!-2

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 12th 2006 6:49AM]

There's also videos of this in IGN:



http://media.gear.ign.com/articles/679/679677/vids_1.html