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SATURDAY, JUL 20, 2002

Roll up for the floppy television

A Light Emitting Polymer TV screen displayed in a wrist watch as developed by Cambridge Display Technology.

LONDON, July 19 â€” First they went wider, then flatter, and now televisions are set to go floppy. Roll-up, flexible televisions, akin to the melting watches of Salvador Daliâ€™s surreal landscapes, have become possible thanks to a glowing plastic compound perfected in the laboratories of Britainâ€™s Cambridge Display Technology (CDT).

â€œYOUâ€™RE EFFECTIVELY printing televisions,â€ CDT Chief Executive David Fyfe said. â€œThey can be printed onto thin plastic almost like paper.â€

Roll-up televisions will allow viewers of the future to flip their sets out of sight like projector screens and will come with a similar price tag to bulkier boxes.

The technology stems from the discovery in 1989 of the compound p-phenylenevinylene which glows greeny-yellow when given an electric charge. ...

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