THE long-promised roll-up displays that can be peeled out like a roller blind from hand-held gadgets will be arriving in the shops in March 2007, according to Philips.
Working with US-based electronic paper pioneer E-Ink, Philips has developed a paper-white, 13 centimetre-wide screen which is only 0.1 millimetres thick and can be pulled from a tight roll just 15 millimetres in diameter. It can display a monochrome image with four shades of grey as well as black and white, and needs no battery-draining backlight, like LCDs.
A backing layer of plastic film is covered with a matrix of transistors and…
