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Flexible Touchscreen

Flexible Touchscreen In the next generation of touch-screen technology, scientists in Arizona have come up with a screen which can bend.

America's Arizona State University have designed the world's first flexible touch-screen at their Flexible Display Centre. The new bendy screen has been developed in conjunction with the US military and presents a number of interesting tactical applications.

Outside of the military however, the new technology could be used for the first flexible touch-screen wrist phone. The screen has been formulated with an active matrix display.

"Our displays have always been flexible but so far the touch-screens have been glass, which are not rugged enough for many applications," said Sri Peruvemba, E-Ink's vice president of marketing. "Now we have a partner that can build a flexible touch-screen to match our flexible display."

The limitations of current touch-sensitive screens is that the rigid glass material is brittle and requires a tough outer housing in order to secure it properly.

The new flexible screen utilises a substitute plastic material which is more durable than glass. The specialist plastic manufacturers DuPont Teijin Films supply the new material to E-Ink.

"Now that our whole device can be made flexible, it should also enable larger-sized touch-screens for electronic newspapers, textbooks and other larger format applications," said Peruvemba.

The space saving potential of the technology is amazing. The e-newspapers of the future will be large enough to read comfortably and then fold away after use.

Although the US military will be the first to benefit from the new touch-screen technology, Peruvemba predicted the technology could be entering the commercial marklet within the next 18 months.


Industry News posted by Romany on 04 March 2009

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