LG.Philips announces 14.3-inch flexible e-paper display for CES

Try to contain yourself when we rattle off the following list of specs for LG.Philips's latest A4 sheet of flexible e-paper: 14.3-inches, 1280 x 800 pixels, 16.7m colors, 300 micrometers thick, full 180° viewing angle. It'll be at CES, but apparently only for Korean models to hold and love. The rest of us? Not so lucky, not even by a long shot.

[vimal @ Mar 20th 2008 6:50AM]

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[Leonard Nimrod @ Jan 3rd 2008 3:32AM]

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.

[Chuckles McGee @ Jan 3rd 2008 3:35AM]

I'd much prefer to hold and love the Korean models.

[vaiyach @ Jan 3rd 2008 6:25AM]

Great! He SO ruined my line!
:-S

[Ghen @ Jan 3rd 2008 9:11AM]

She's wearing a sweater, that ruins my day. Korean technology models should only ever wear body paint.

[Flashpoint @ Jan 3rd 2008 9:57AM]

She has such a soft smile.
My mind is filled with filth right now.
All the possible things I could do to that smile.

[Constable Odo @ Jan 3rd 2008 2:37PM]

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.

[Skullfighter @ Jan 3rd 2008 5:54PM]

It can bend, but can it blend?

[BigDaddyM @ Jan 3rd 2008 3:34AM]

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.
M

[Wwhat @ Jan 3rd 2008 11:27AM]

What's a 'watch'? wasn't that a thing they used to tell time last century?

[L.Cyphre @ Jan 3rd 2008 3:45AM]

Whoa, for a second there I thought it was Rie Tanaka!

[Mike Campbell @ Jan 3rd 2008 4:06AM]

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?

[Lakritzator @ Jan 3rd 2008 4:13AM]

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...

[Lakritzator @ Jan 3rd 2008 4:11AM]

The colors don't look very vivid to me, if those are real vegetables I do NOT want to eat them!

[Andrew Velis @ Jan 3rd 2008 4:36AM]

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.

[Richard Lai @ Jan 3rd 2008 4:59AM]

We'll just have to date one of them models.

[Bad Beaver @ Jan 3rd 2008 5:36AM]

Well, that containment thing didn't work out. Too glad this is e-paper. *wipe*

One word: Awesome! What's the refresh rate?

[dulwhite @ Jan 4th 2008 9:10AM]

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.

[jd @ Jan 3rd 2008 7:46AM]

i wonder what she would look like in blonde.

can some of the PS artist here change her hair from black to blonde?

[Tamer Brad @ Jan 3rd 2008 7:52AM]

hahahaha what the fuck dude

[Bob @ Jan 3rd 2008 8:07AM]

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.

[nathan.wong @ Jan 3rd 2008 8:36AM]

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?

[Wwhat @ Jan 3rd 2008 11:31AM]

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.

[engadget @ Jan 3rd 2008 9:27AM]

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.

[Speddy @ Jan 3rd 2008 9:32AM]

No wonder they have a model showing their product! The image on the ePaper is some expired fruit?

[johnnychipface @ Jan 3rd 2008 9:54AM]

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...).

[Matt @ Jan 3rd 2008 11:57AM]

What models are you talking about???? This is probably one of theose humanoid Japanese robots. :-)

[Wwhat @ Jan 3rd 2008 11:33AM]

It says LCD on the picture, that means it's not really what is known as e-paper then eh.

[Mike Campbell @ Jan 3rd 2008 2:17PM]

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. (>_

[Constable Odo @ Jan 3rd 2008 2:32PM]

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.

[ST @ Jan 3rd 2008 3:36PM]

Nice, but what's its refresh rate.

[nathan @ Jan 4th 2008 4:31PM]

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?

[S&M @ Jan 3rd 2008 5:26PM]

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.

[Skullfighter @ Jan 3rd 2008 5:56PM]

Were you wanting a video of the product, or the model holding the product?