Waiting for a Flexible eReader? Keep Waiting

There’s been lots of talk about flexible screens–eReaders, computers, and phones that will roll up like a fruit-roll-up and fit neatly in your pocket. Well, turns out that yesterday LG announced it has developed the world’s largest flexible electronic paper screen. But, as a post today on The New York Times Bits Blog makes clear, even if we’ve got the screens, we’ve still got years to go before the guts of these devices are flexible.

Here’s more from Bits:

Nicholas Colaneri, director of the Flexible Display Center at Arizona State University, explained that because we have flexible displays does not mean we will have flexible devices in the marketplace for another few years.

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