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]