Wacom (Booth 1129) and E Ink (Booth 913) will be showcasing their technologies at the International Society for Information Display exhibition, May 20 to 22, 2008 in Los Angeles, California.

Electronic paper with pen input is ideal for reviewing documents on a portable device. E Ink Vizplex displays enable slimmer devices to have bigger screens that are easy on the eyes, even in ambient light. The intuitive nature of pen input makes it easy to navigate, write down ideas, highlight points of interest, as well as sketch or draw. Together the technologies achieve the ultimate vision of an interactive piece of paper.

“e-Paper is opening up a number of new products for displays, including eBooks, Mobile Internet Devices, Smart Labels and Digital Signage,” said Barry Young, Senior Advisor for DisplaySearch. He added that “the partnership between E Ink and Wacom in the application of pen input should increase the breadth of ePaper capabilities and accelerate the growth rate.”

“The marriage of Wacom’s input technology with E Ink’s Vizplex electronic paper displays offer manufacturers unmatched flexibility and creativity when it comes to the design of e-paper based products,” said Stephen Sedaker, Director of Component Sales for Wacom. “Whether giving the user a way to digitally jot notes in the column of a book, or circle an interesting entry in the daily newspaper, people now have the option to interact freely with electronic paper.” [via earthtimes]

Polymer Vision will exhibit the first prototype of the rollable display with full color at the Society for Information Display (SID) conference in Los Angeles. This is the company’s next step in the world’s transition from rigid to rollable displays.

 “2008 is an exciting year for both Polymer Vision and the mobile industry as a whole”, says Edzer Huitema, CTO of the company. “This year we will launch our first commercial product, Readius®, while at the same time our revolutionary prototypes bring the future closer where mobile devices will be equipped with large rollable displays.”
 
What distinguishes the Polymer Vision displays from all other displays is that they are as thin as paper with the ability to be rolled up to the diameter of a pen. Both prototypes at SID exhibit a record breaking roll radius of only 6mm. The 65k color display has a resolution of 127ppi, while the monochrome display has a resolution of 254ppi, which is the highest resolution e-paper display ever shown.
 
Although these exciting new prototype displays clearly demonstrate the future possibilities of Polymer Vision’s rollable display technology, 2008 is the year of the market launch of the revolutionary Readius® device, marking the first step in the transition from rigid to rollable displays. With a large 5” rollable e-paper display, the pocket size e-reader merges the ‘reading friendly’ strengths of traditional e-readers such as Amazon’s Kindle or Sony’s Reader with the small form factor and world wide connectivity of mobile devices. [via polymervision]