Bend it, shake it, throw it. (Design News).(E Ink creates 'electronic ink' display board)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)

Innovative Massachussets-based display company E Ink has developed a working prototype of its 'electronic ink' display technology. Attached to a flexible, silicon-based thin-film transistor backplane (the sheet of electronics that controls display pixels) the display can be twisted, bent or thrown against a wall without disturbing a single electron.

The company says that it will soon be possible to mass-produce reams of self-erasing electronic paper …