electric paper

I was first exposed to electric paper through the ground-breaking work of the late 90's done at Xerox PARC, peddled today by spin out company Gyricon. Now Philips has unveiled the most flexible display yet. I would really love to start designing user interfaces for this stuff. Sadly, the refresh rate is currently a lowly 1 Hertz, though I doubt it will stay there for long. So researchers, while you're at it, don't forget the touch sensing. We'll definitely need to get us some of that, too...

And so we take one more nanometer-sized step towards the Diamond Age... perhaps our children will have Illustrated Primers of their own.