The era of foldable touchscreens for computers and cell phones is rapidly approaching. Taiwan's Industrial Technology Research Institute has developed an award-winning flexible display screen that will soon be ready for consumers. Rob Muir reports.
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It's a newspaper, but not as we know it. It won't be long though before flexible screen technology transforms media platforms of all kinds. Scientists at Taiwan's Industrial Technology Research Institute have been able to create transparent thin film screens that are resistant to the high temperatures required to fabricate the transistors in the material. Previously, the heat caused the flexible screens to expand and lose their transparency but by adding silica the researchers say, they've solved the problem and now, they have the basis for a commercialy viable product. SOUNDBITE: CHEN JANGLIN - ITRI, SAYING: "So when we look at the flexible display, we have many things in mind, especially we have this vision, in the future, the mobile life style, you don't want your display carried everywhere and become heavy, become difficult to store or difficult to carry. In the mean time you don't want to drop it because it is going to break, and if it is flexible display I think we would help address those issues about portability and the mobility of your future life style." Chen Janglin and his colleague Lie Jia-Ming see the day when lightweight e-books and tablet computers can be folded or rolled up for storage. It's taken ten years and an a hundred million dollars to develop the technology but within two years they say, it'll be commercially available giving even traditional media a new flexibility. Rob Muir,
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