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There’s been a bit of hype around a new “rollable” electronic display being used in a device called Readius (Link)<\/a>. It’s from a company called Polymer Vision, “the rollable display company” and a division of Philips according to what I just read on C|Net (Link)<\/a>. I first saw this device yesterday on the Open the Future blog (Link)<\/a> but didn’t understand how it actually worked; seemed a little boxy and I was expecting something with a cylindrical form at least somewhere<\/em> in the design. Now that I’ve seen the animation on their site (Link)<\/a>, I’m less impressed. When someone says “rollable”, I want rollable<\/em>. This is an unfolding, flexible display. Still cool, but they’ve made it less<\/em> cool and disappointed me by raising expectation and not delivering on the promise<\/a>.<\/p>\n Oh well. Next.<\/p>\n {Image Copyright (c) 2005-2007 Polymer Vision}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There’s been a bit of hype around a new “rollable” electronic display being used in a device called Readius (Link). It’s from a company called Polymer Vision, “the rollable display company” and a division of Philips according to what I … Continue reading