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Foldable Screens for E-Newspapers

Electronics giant Philips has just announced that it would be mass-producing a thin display panel that could be used to display e-newspapers and magazines downloaded from a fixed or mobile Internet link... and then rolled up or folded away.

Philips created the display using E Ink technology, which uses plastics-based monochrome display electronics.

Philips has already demonstrated similar glass-based displays, and estimates that it can produce the flexible 5-inch displays at a rate of one million units per year.