Display Technology Developments

eInk have announced in a Press Release that they have made available their new eInk formulation that has:-

• better white reflectivity (i.e. it's whiter)
• better contrast
• new sizes
• faster update

They have chosen to brand the new version "VizPlex" to distinguish it from earlier version.

I can't say I like that name much! Sounds like a new type of cinema or something.
They also released a new display controller to drive these displays, with the associated development kits.

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This is a couple of weeks old, but related, so thought I would include it. Press Release.
"LG.Philips LCD Develops World’s First Flexible Color A4-Size E-Paper"
LG seem to be focusing on the larger size eInk displays, which makes you wonder what application they are pursuing.
I think the claim on image quality that "images displayed are comparable in quality to printed pages" is a bit aggressive, as even the monochrome ones are not at the level of print, and these color ones (due to the color filters in front of the eInk display) have a darker white, and less contrast - so are even less comparable. But hey! In English I guess "comparable" doesn't mean "equal to" :-)
It remains to be seen when these "developments" are commercially available, and in which products they will first appear.

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Sony flexible OLED Display reported on various news sites such as I4UNews,
This is apparently the world's first full color OLED/organic TFT on a flexible substrate. Sony managed to create a flexible display with a size of 2.5 inches featuring a resolution of 120×RGB×160 pixel. Other specifications of the flexible OLED display include 100 cd/m2 brightness, 1,000:1 contrast ratio and 0.3mm thickness of the panel. Sony is demonstrating this new display achievement at SID (Society for Information Display trade-show) 2007 this week.
Here is the Sony Press Release (in Japanese), or you can take a look at more information on their display technology and it's specification from this machine-translated web.