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Polymer Vision demonstrates rollable colour display
25 June 2008
Dutch company Polymer Vision has demonstrated the first prototype of
a rollable display with full colour. Polymer Vision is a spin out from
Philips and the pioneer of mobile devices with rollable displays.
The company exhibited the first prototypes of the full-colour
rollable display and the high-resolution rollable monochrome display at
the annual SID conference in Los Angeles, USA in May.
A rollable colour display
It also showed off its pocket size e-reader with a rollable display
created for commercial use, the Readius, which will be launched in the
second half of this year.
 
The Readius pocket-sized reader
“2008 is an exciting year for both Polymer Vision and the mobile
industry as a whole”, says Edzer Huitema, CTO of the company. “This year
we will launch our first commercial product, Readius, while at the same
time our revolutionary prototypes bring the future closer where mobile
devices will be equipped with large rollable displays.”
The Polymer Vision displays are as thin as paper and have the ability
to be rolled up to the diameter of a pen. Both prototypes at SID exhibit
a record breaking roll radius of only 6mm. The 65k colour display has a
resolution of 127ppi, while the monochrome display has a resolution of
254ppi, which is the highest resolution e-paper display ever shown.
The pocket size Readius device has a large 5" rollable display. It
merges the ‘reading friendly’ strengths of traditional e-readers such as
Amazon’s Kindle or Sony’s Reader with the small form factor and world
wide connectivity of mobile devices.
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