Flexible, Bouncy Electronic Books To Hit Market Soon

摘要

Gadget-makers have long promised us a flexible electronic book, but actually producing a robust, bendy screen has proved tough - until now.rnPlastic Logic, a display technology company based in Cambridge, UK, says it will launch the first flexible electronic book in January.rnThe two most popular e-books on the market, the Sony Reader and Amazon Kindle, are paperback book-sized devices that use first-generation black and white electronic "ink" displays. These consist of a plastic sheet containing pixel-sized voids, each filled with black and white ink particles. Electric fields attract the ink to the top of these voids to display print. The problem is, the transistors that apply these electric fields sit on a layer of glass, making the displays fragile.