Dear Total Nerds, if you would like to read an article with lots of terms like, “bio-nanofiber,” “low heat expanding transparent substrate,” “bio-luminescent transistor,” and other possible examples of Star Trek plot-resolving deus ex machina, this article on TechJapan is right up your Jeffries Tube. If you want the less nerdly boil-down, here it is: someone else is working on flexible displays. In fact, a whole alliance of Japanese thinkers, including both electronics companies and Kyoto University, have developed a prototype display that may be the cornerstone of portable screens of the future. Unfortunately, all the pictures of this technology seem to suck, so this breathtaking picture of tomorrow instead evokes something more like a wheeze.
Flexible displays finally a reality? Enter Bio-nanofibers. [TechJapan]
