Well, maybe not necessarily T-shirts but recently E Ink, the world’s leading manufacturer of electronic paper displays (EPDs), presented its new impressive development – a flexible display applied to fabric. That immediately brought about a picture worthy of a sci-fi blockbuster – streets of a metropolis of the future crowded with people wearing fantastic outfits with brightly flashing color displays showing latest news, singing rock groups or battles between monsters and aliens.
The video below is a brief presentation of this ultrathin flexible display printed directly on a piece of cloth which is being wrapped and bent in different directions without affecting the quality of the picture in the display. Currently it’s just a simple black-and-white prototype created for the purpose of demonstrating the possibilities of the new technology but it is obvious that such technologies are already a part of our lives and might soon become as wide-spread as mobile devices.
The company, established back in 1997, also produces electronic color paper displays that are currently used for electronic books, textbooks, newspapers, magazines, posters, mobile devices and have a huge potential for many other uses in various fields. E Ink’s important mission is reduction of the usage of regular paper for printing newspapers and magazines and preservation of trees.
Prepared with the use of materials from The Digital Reader and E Ink Holdings, Inc.