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Electronic paper is here, a paper think screen which can be updated with little power, and does not require electricity to keep the screen on., look at the following links to see it:
http://www.sciencentral.com/articles/view....anguage=english
http://www.media.mit.edu/micromedia/elecpaper.html
http://physicsweb.org/articles/news/7/9/15

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Aparently this stuff can be used for electronic newspapers that update daily for you to read, for clothing that you can change for your own EXACT design using your computer, for almost anything, watch screens for paper thin watches, phones that roll up in your pocket, this stuff is simply amazing.

Something tells me we have a Game Maker user browsing this forum or vice versa: http://forums.gamemaker.nl/index.php?showtopic=165524

Trond wrote:Something tells me we have a Game Maker user browsing this forum or vice versa: http://forums.gamemaker.nl/index.php?showtopic=165524

Yes, im MaJoRa on the gm forums btw, so yea, we do.

old news... already seen said "paper lcd" more than an year ago. theres variants as well, a guy made one that is formed from mini half-colored spheres.. they are all aligned so they show white for example, but with an electric pulse you can make them rotate 180° therefor they show the other color (say red...) this mono colored flexible screen will be used on many things.. plus, it costs ... pennies...

dagcrack wrote:old news...

You are negative again.

Have I ever been possitive? when?.. No one told me...
Plus I like their micro-balls infested paper wannabe device.. It's just that its very ooooooold news, checking the links I saw that they are actually having more than a whole flip of this micro encapsulated balls, which is good.. since you can get almost anything you want to be shown, with less amount of this little balls (so, you dont need to make them smaller since you can have a 45° rotation on one of its axis, this gives you pretty much a built-in anti-alias feature..)

Heya dagcrack,

How you going?

Tell you what - we'll just take it for granted that you have seen everything at least half a year before the rest of us. That way you don't have to waste your time posting and telling us you're way ahead!

You can use the time saved to read positive thinking books instead!

Dare2, you said it so much more nicely than I was thinking

Hydrate, thanks very for this info

Having worked on electronics... having a brother who worked on electronics as well.. and having a cousin who actually works on electronics, its not hard to tell that I should of be updated in that market, shouldnt I?... Why would I say "cool thanks" when I already knew about this long time ago.. I'm saying its nothing new, thats all.

dagcrack wrote:Having worked on electronics... having a brother who worked on electronics as well.. and having a cousin who actually works on electronics, its not hard to tell that I should of be updated in that market, shouldnt I?... Why would I say "cool thanks" when I already knew about this long time ago.. I'm saying its nothing new, thats all.

Your not the only one who has known about it for some time, i haave also, its just now its able to use colour which is a major breakthrough, which im sure is new (within the month or so) even to you.

It's seriously good stuff and I am always grateful for more information. I was at a Toshiba developer's conference 3 years ago and they were talking about these sorts of screens as well as holographic screens. At the time, the holographic screens had problems because the emitters were not rigid enough so their new design went for the flexible screen based around printed photolithographic transistors. A year later, IBM showed their version of a monochrome screen around 12 inches wide dubbed "Digital ink".

At the moment, their are 3 major ongoing developments. Combination plasma/lcd screens (bright and very flat), Photolithographic flexible screens and OLED (Organic LED).

The OLED is the cheapest and most flexible, not to mention the most interesting to produce. Good colours, persistence, very low power requirement, ultra thin (can roll it up). There is a technique to produce them, being developed for use by a conventional Inkjet/bubbleket printer!!!

The idea is that with special ink, a bublejet/inkjet (never did get the difference) can lay down successive layers to produce an oled screen or a ocnventional circuit.

It's mindblowing stuff.

I couldn't help but notice that those Gamemaker guys are having a much better discussion than us.

Thanks for the heads up, Hydrate.

GedB wrote:I couldn't help but notice that those Gamemaker guys are having a much better discussion than us.

Thanks for the heads up, Hydrate.

Maybe. But we will still whup them: viewtopic.php?t=17326