Building on its leading position in rollable displays and drawing on its considerable heritage in personal electronics, Philips Polymer Vision is revealing its Concept Readius at the Internationale Funkausstellung (IFA) in Berlin, Germany, September 2-7. Philips Concept Readius is a prototype of a connected consumer device for business professionals unwilling to sacrifice readability, mobility, performance, or weight in a pocket-sized, e-reader concept.
Polymer Vision does not intend to commercialize this concept as a product in the market. Instead, it is demonstrating the fitness of its rollable displays for use in the mobile devices of tomorrow.
The Readius is the world’s first prototype of a functional electronic-document reader that can unroll its display to a scale larger than the device itself. With four gray levels, the monochrome, 5-inch QVGA (320 pixels x 240 pixels) display provides paper-like viewing comfort with a high contrast ratio for reading-intensive applications, including text, graphics, and electronic maps. Using a bi-stable electrophoretic display effect from E Ink Corp., the display consumes little power and is easy to read, even in bright daylight. Once the user has finished reading, the display can be rolled back into the pocket-size (100 mm x 60 mm x 20 mm) device.
Based on Philips Polymer Vision’s PV-QML5 rollable display reference design, the Readius was created in order to demonstrate the viability of the rollable-display concept in mobile applications and to gain customer feedback at the IFA 2005.
“Making displays thinner and flexible will have advantages in power and weight. But the only way to add the key advantage of size—allowing larger displays in smaller, pocket-size mobile devices—is by actually making the displays rollable,” says Polymer Vision CEO Karl McGoldrick in the press release. “The Readius demonstrates this, as well as showing that we have taken this technology a major step further towards product and market.
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“Man, I’ve been thinking about that for laptops for years. I should have patented my idea.”
Why not go ahead and patent it, after all patenting other people’s finished products seems to be the way business will be done in the future. For details on how to do this just call 1-800-Microsoft
This is definitely a step in the right direction in making electronic devices and computers more user friendly. But I am not going to put my thump up until somebody comes up with a friendlier keyboard/data entry (not only a foldable keyboard, but maybe a finger-movement-sensitive device) and also a friendlier display, maybe like a head-up-display (HUD) which I can wear as my glasses. Regards…..Samaun.
The next iPod with a rollable display for videos would be cool. However, I don’t want to be standing in line at the movies (or anywhere) and be bombarded with commercials coming from the back of the jacket of the guy in front of me!
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Send the specs to Apple so it doesn’t look like a cheap plastic toy.
Very Cool!
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