HP shows off softer, flexible side with new eSkins reflective display tech

As history has proved time and time again, you can never have enough obscure display technologies of questionable use, and HP has really delivered with its new eSkins or "Electronic Skins" tech. The flexible, reflective color film can be printed with a roll-to-roll manufacturing technique on plastic substrates, and actually uses proprietary color "inks" in the printing process to infuse the seemingly monochrome display (HP doesn't specify) with a particular color in the PANTONE spectrum. The "print quality" colors are visible in direct sunlight, and can even shift to a transparent state to show whatever's behind the eSkins film. HP will be unveiling more info about the technology this coming week, and hopes to offer the tech for use in phones, cameras, netbooks and so forth -- no mention of ebooks, but that seems a likely scenario as well. Everybody reads.

[storm Posted Jun 1st 2009 11:23PM]

que paso?

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 1st 2009 11:31PM]

Te llamo tu suegra!

[Scubasteve03 Posted Jun 1st 2009 11:23PM]

Anyone else confused? Why is this needed? This seems like a waste of time and money.

[dziban303 Posted Jun 1st 2009 11:30PM]

Don't worry, I don't get it either.

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 1st 2009 11:32PM]

It is significant because its low consumption. tis like a color e-ink display that could be in phones netbooks so on

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 2nd 2009 12:00AM]

Are those people supposed to be dancing? Or are they trying to get Threepio to shut down all the trash compactors on the detention level?

[nicksilvestri Posted Jun 1st 2009 11:43PM]

Make it available to me, and I'll care.

[Sirius Posted Jun 1st 2009 11:43PM]

This looks like it can be used to produce ND filters with changeable gradient... might be dithered tho :\.. unless it can do 'greyscale' transparency...

[nak Posted Jun 2nd 2009 12:00AM]

Unfortunately, not everyone reads. I never learned how :(

[Cy Starkman Posted Jun 2nd 2009 3:00AM]

Wow that display has the coolest bezel eh. It's bigger than the display. Imagine the cool phones u could make, 3" screen with 3" per side as the bezel. It could fit in ur backpack.

[jeffemundo Posted Jun 18th 2009 7:42PM]

Reflective color display with an actual use: www.themirasoleffect.com .