LG.Philips announces 14.3-inch flexible e-paper display for CES
By Ryan Block 
posted Jan 3rd 2008 3:21AM
posted Jan 3rd 2008 3:21AM
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Oh no! A pretty girl is in the pic so we're bound to get a bunch of posts wondering if she is flexible too.
I'd much prefer to hold and love the Korean models.
Great! He SO ruined my line!
:-S
She's wearing a sweater, that ruins my day. Korean technology models should only ever wear body paint.
She has such a soft smile.
My mind is filled with filth right now.
All the possible things I could do to that smile.
Wow, she's got a Mona Lisa smile. I'm sure that sweetie is totally flexible from the way she is adoringly looking at that fake device. I sure like LG's ads.
It can bend, but can it blend?
So these things bend, not fold, so curved displays? I guess for a watch that would be cool, but until they really fold or roll up, we will not have those fancy displays that roll into a tinny rod like they have in movies.
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What's a 'watch'? wasn't that a thing they used to tell time last century?
Whoa, for a second there I thought it was Rie Tanaka!
I could care less about the fact that it's bendable, cool though that is. Imagine, though, a better designed and more stylish Kindle-equivalent that rocks an e-paper screen with those specs. Yep, A4 size AND in color folks. Can anyone confirm if this is indeed similar to E-ink displays in functionality, i.e.; it doesn't use power until the screen refreshes?
Like the Iliad, but than with this new color epaper?
http://www.irextechnologies.com/products/iliad
That's what I am waiting for, got plenty of comics and E-Books lying around...
The colors don't look very vivid to me, if those are real vegetables I do NOT want to eat them!
how come whenever we see announcements like these we never EVER see live video of the product in action only fancy photos with chicks. I am not doubting LG, they are a brand with a track record. I am only asking for a little bit more of visual experience.
We'll just have to date one of them models.
Well, that containment thing didn't work out. Too glad this is e-paper. *wipe*
One word: Awesome! What's the refresh rate?
Just a guess about refresh rate, but I'm willing to say.... 0.5 hz? Once it's on the screen, one of the reason it doesn't hurt the eyes is because it doesn't flicker or refresh constantly. It only re-draws when something on the screen changes - which is why amazon's kindle claims such a long battery life.
i wonder what she would look like in blonde.
can some of the PS artist here change her hair from black to blonde?
hahahaha what the fuck dude
Until they make processors, network cards, memory and batteries that are paper thin this isn't going to reduce the size of anything.
In the photo, the gorgeous model is bending the paper in such a way so you can't see the PDA and AV socket glued to the back of it.
So we've been reading about these damn foldable things for over a year now. Anyone going to step up to the plate and actually release it?
Don't be silly, it's for reading about, not for production, it's much too expensive and complicated to manufacture.
And if someone actually made a device with it it would indeed only be sold in japan/korea.
It's ok that it only flexes a little. Imagine an A43 sized sheet of glass a third of a millimeter thick. It would break if you even looked at it crooked! A very thin display needs some flexibility to be practical.
No wonder they have a model showing their product! The image on the ePaper is some expired fruit?
If they could combine this technology with wireless power then I could finally replace all of my real books with their electronic counterparts :) (I think...).
What models are you talking about???? This is probably one of theose humanoid Japanese robots. :-)
It says LCD on the picture, that means it's not really what is known as e-paper then eh.
Nice catch. I wish either these companies (or Engadget) would help clarify for the consumer by not confusing us with these terms. Damn, and here I thought e-ink had gone color. (>_
Oh, not that far off. According to the exaggerated rumors, I thought they were supposed to introduce a flexible, foldable, thin MacBook laptop at MacWorld this year. Only the Mac version is supposed to fold up like a napkin so you can stick it in your shirt pocket.
Nice, but what's its refresh rate.
Sure Constable, all we need now is a foldable CPU, foldable motherboard, foldable HDD/SDD, and a foldable battery to go along with that. Not much to do in 2 years you say?
The idea is the electronics would be separate from the display. The display might be in the sleeve of your jacket for example while your smartphone/GPS stays in your pocket.
Were you wanting a video of the product, or the model holding the product?