Xerox: Roll-Up Telly in 7 Years
15 August 2006, 12:16
Categories: nano-emissive-displays smt-luminescent-light-emit
Imagine an IMAX-sized TV screen for your living-room that you could roll-up and down; wireless electronic wallpaper that changes colour, form and design with your mood; electronic newspapers that look and feel like real paper, thereby saving millions of trees from daily slaughter. Xerox Canada claims these are just some tantalizing possibilities that can materialize from the company’s research into plastic organic electronics (POE). “This is a fundamental technology that is so far out and hard to understand but will significantly change the way we use and interact with technologies,” says Carmi Levy, senior research analyst at Info-Tech Research Group in London, Canada. “We do need to keep our eyes on this one.” POE uses specialized, nanotechnology-based materials and printing processes to create an ink that can be used with print-heads to print the patterns needed for electronic circuits on plastic instead of etching them in silicon.
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