E Ink Corp. has announced that Philips and E Ink have built a 10.1″ flexible electronic paper display. From their press release:
Less than 300 microns thick, the paper-white display is as thin and flexible as construction paper. With a 10.1″ diagonal, the prototype achieves SVGA (600×800) resolution at 100 pixels per inch and has a 10:1 contrast ratio with 4 levels of grayscale.
E Ink® Imaging Film is a novel display material that looks like printed ink on paper and has been designed for use in paper-like electronic displays. Like paper, the material can be flexed and rolled. As an additional benefit, the E Ink Imaging Film uses 100 times less energy than a liquid crystal display because it can hold an image without power and without a backlight.
E-Ink has hopes that this product will be the basis of an electronic newspaper in the future. Fascinating to watch this developing!
Read more for their press release here.