World's thinnest e-paper from Bridgestone

You might only think of Bridgestone as the company that makes the tires for your car, but apparently they have a lot more on the go than that. Bridgestone has unveiled the world’s thinnest e-paper display. Not much thicker than a piece of paper, it also resembles paper in that it is completely bendable. It employs a special ribbed structure to avoid distorting the images or text when it is folded or moved. For now it’s just a two-color display, but you have to imagine that that will change at some point in time.


E-paper has long been touted as the ultimate solution for many of problems. It will allegedly work well in billboards, to make highly effective name tags, and for e-books among other things. The problem to this point has been to create a solution that is portable, durable and affordable. No word yet on the affordability of this solution, but Bridgestone looks to have achieved the other two goals.




Written by Stroe Sorin
Published in Other Tech