Flexible Display Technology

So, this stuff has been in development for quite awhile now. I've been keeping tabs on it, but it appears that the dev process has finally culminated in some results. Here are a bunch of videos of this stuff in action. The work is handled by a sub-group of Phillips called Polymer Vision. Mostly, their site talks about business and mobile applications, but I think the obvious applications are far more interesting: stealth camouflage! There are tons of things this would be awesome for. The current implementation only has 4 shades of grey, but with full color and touch-screen technology integration, this thing is going to be freaking AWESOME.

Phillips Radius


Plastic Logic demo


Phillips e paper technology


Electronic ink display from Philips


For a little bit more background on this, it actually doesn't have a refresh rate, and hence it uses very low power. Additionally, it is perfectly visible in regular daylight conditions. I believe it is actually a changing in a pigment configuration of the material, almost? I'm not 100% certain on that. At any rate, color models have also been in development, but certain of the color elements degrade at different rates (with the most difficult element being blue, degrading within a few weeks, I believe) so until that is stabilized, flexible screens in color are not ready for release.

Here is a site with some more background, videos, and pics: here