OT: TV to go

A related story to Voodoo's Sony debuts 'wearable' digicam post.

First they went wider, then flatter, and now televisions are set to go floppy.

Roll-up, flexible televisions, akin to the melting watches of Salvador Dali's surreal landscapes, have become possible thanks to a glowing plastic compound perfected in the laboratories of Cambridge Display Technology (CDT).

"You're effectively printing televisions," CDT Chief Executive David Fyfe told Reuters. "They can be printed onto thin plastic almost like paper."

"I think it (commercial production) is very close now," said Fyfe, adding that the last bottleneck -- finding a flexi-screen that protects the sensitive compounds from corrosion by oxygen and water vapour -- had almost been overcome. Realistically, you will see roll up displays around 2004 or 2005," he added.

"Just four weeks ago Philips demonstrated an all plastic display -- an incredible thing -- a device only a fifty millionth of an inch thick. If you can get thin enough plastic, then you would indeed have a roll-up television."

News source: Yahoo