The folks at E-Ink — who make the clear high-contrast screen for the Amazon Kindle — appear to be prototyping the first flexible computer touch-screen. You know: the digital paper that’s been hyped since forever.
This article from Technology Review gives a neat overview of portable flat-screen technology, and why it’s so hard to combine both flex and touch. First applications will be, unsurprisingly, military. God only knows how much it’ll cost.
March 3, 2009