Plastic Logic
interactive — By Blaine Brownell on March 10, 2006 at 5:34 pmPlastic Logic develops licensable manufacturing solutions for printing thin and flexible active-matrix displays. When combined with an electronic-paper imaging film, Plastic Logic’s backplane technology enables highly portable, readable and power efficient displays. The initial application focus is e-readers (e.g. e-books, e-dictionaries, e-maps, e-newspapers). These displays will often be wirelessly connected to WAN devices such mobile phones and PDAs, allowing users to access content ‘on-the-move’ more comfortably and efficiently than is possible using a small integrated display.
This is the first step towards flexible and plastic backplanes for a range of display applications and frontplane technologies including LCD and OLED. Features include resolution up to 150ppi (pixels per inch); scaleable area to A4 (210mm by 297mm) and above; 4 levels of grayscale; high aperture ratio / fill factor; and bistable e-paper which enables high contrast reflective display (sun-light readable) and ultra-low power consumption.
Contact: Plastic Logic, Mountain View, CA, USA.
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Another freakily cool story, keep them coming. Materials technology has been exciting for quite a while now but hasn’t really set fire to the public’s imagination. I suspect these epaper displays will turn on numerous light bulbs when they hit the market.
Keep up the good work. Me and my co-contributors at Meme Therapy are avid readers of your blog. We’d like to line you up as an interview subject one of these days for our podcast if you’re up for it.