LG Announces 19 inch, Flexible Digital-Ink Display
LG Announces 19 inch, Flexible Digital-Ink Display
Posted 01/14/2010 at 2:25pm
| by Jason Barry
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LG has released a new display technology that not even Rupert Murdoch can turn a blind eye to. With the e-reader consumer market continuing to grow, LG insists on not being outdone, and they may have succeeded.
LG unveiled an e-paper prototype about which, they claim is the largest produced using current technology. The 19-inch display uses a metal foil in exchange for the usual glass backing, which gives it its flexibility.
LG will likely be marketing this towards newspapers, and newspapers should be so lucky. Traditional e-readers, like Kindle and the Nook, stumble when it comes to executing the same comforting experience as print. Utilizing technology like this might help consumers more widely adopt the e-reading concept.
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jaxjoker2
January 15, 2010 at 11:09am
Anybody know where the battery goes? or how its powered at all?
Tekzel
January 17, 2010 at 6:55am
It could possibly use lithium polymer batteries, those can be made super thin, but not sure about flexibility.
I'm looking forward to e-readers that are flexible, all screen, and the interface is touch. That would be cool.
I Jedi
January 14, 2010 at 5:34pm
I didn't know that consumer flexible screens were available yet... Fascinating.
JohnP
January 14, 2010 at 3:20pm
Since Plastic Logic has bamboozled so many with their claimed "8 1/2 by 11 inch display" that is really only a 10.5 inch diagonal "viewable area", I am really hesitant about e-reader's specs. Is this a 19 inch diagonal viewable area display or is the device 19 inches in size?
I really, really want a display the size of an A4 sheet of paper (or bigger!) so PDF's of magazines and textbooks will actually be readable.
zblackrider
January 14, 2010 at 5:26pm
That pic is of the Skiff. the LG model is 25cmx45cm Larger than A4 but not wide enough for A3.
nekollx
January 14, 2010 at 3:53pm
well if the picture is actually of the device that should answer your questions....
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