Taiwan’s Industrial Technology Research Institute has shown off some new flexible display screen technologies. One is a 4.1-inch color OLED screen pictured here. OLED does away with the need for a polarizer or stacks of optical film. For an e-reader, however, OLED is still a bit of a problem because all the light parts of the screen have to be powered.
ITRI also showed a color e-reader touch screen with software that would allow drawing and note-taking. The screen uses a cholesteric liquid display that supposedly uses less power and is highly reduced in cost. In conjunction with Corning, an organic thin film transistor display was shown that can be used with glass or plastic and is a candidate for e-paper.
Related: Info on ITRI’s paper-thin speaker tech.
