Researcher in Taiwan can make flexible e-reader displays out of silk. The material not only allows for bendy e-books, but the material is also cheap compared to existing tech.
The process starts out with "liquid silk", which is turned into insulating membranes that are then used to make the TFT (thin-film transistor) screens found in e-readers and LCD panels. Professor Hwang Jenn-Chang of the National Tsing Hua University calls the process "quite viable."
It is also cheap. The silk required to make a screen works out at just three cents per device.
This of course brings some nightmarish scenarios to mind. I imagine a Kindle factory, probably underground, where endless rows of silkworms toil day and night to bring us naturally produced, possibly "organic" bendy e-books. Where will this madness end? What next? Books made out of paper?
Taiwan researchers turn to silk for flexible e-devices [PC World]
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