LG.Philips Develop Bendy Color E-Paper

Whoa. No sooner does Fujitsu announce an A4-sized e-book than LG.Philips LCD gets all, like, one-uppy. Today LG.Philips announced that they, too, have developed a 4,096-color, A4-sized electronic-paper display -- only theirs is flexible, like dead-tree paper.

(Oh yeah, just a reminder: A4 is 8.27" x 11.69".)

Based on E Ink technology, the LG.Philips display has an impressive 180-degree viewing angle (again, like actual paper) but, as with Fujitsu's FLEPia readers, is a bit slow on the screen refresh. The metal-foil sheets are a scant 300 micrometers thick.

Impressive as all this is, it's not like we're going to see this paper on store shelves anytime soon -- or at least, not before the FLEPia readers' release in October. So for now Fujitsu is still laughing.