(1) A generic term for an extremely thin flexible display that
can be rolled up. There are several technologies in the works,
and this type of display is expected to become mainstream by
2015.| This OLED display screen unrolled out of a pen may seem
far fetched, but such products are expected to be commercialized
in a few years (see (2) A paper-thin display technology that
uses charged black and white elements oriented toward the viewer
when a charge is applied and which retain their formation
without power. The first electronic paper was developed at
Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center (www.parc.com) in the 1970s.
It used a thin sheet of Xerox Gyricon plastic, containing
millions of charged beads with black and white hemispheres. When
the paper was fed through a "printer," a voltage pattern was
applied, and the beads were oriented toward their black or white
side, or half way for gray. Although the Gyricon Media Inc.
subsidiary was created to develop the technology, it never
worked well enough to become a prod