Tuesday, 19 November 2013

Packaging future?

http://www.designcognition.com/2010/11/exciting-breakthrough-high-performance-paper-based-display-technology-suitable-for-packaging/



Exciting breakthrough – high-performance, paper-based display technology suitable for packaging 

Professor Streckl & Duk Young Kim's from the University of Cincinnati engineering lab, research takes them nearer to moving pictures on packaging.

There research is into an affordable, yet high-performance, paper-based display technology which has demonstrated that paper could be used as a flexible host material for an ‘electrowetting’ device. Electrowetting (EW) involves applying an electric field to coloured droplets within a display in order to reveal content such as type, photographs and video. 


Thoughts
- this will change the way design is approached
- if there is more than one idea for the future, will progress be delayed or a more attractive option, will we become distracted 
- is this a sustainable idea - it sounds to me to be a step to far, creating a extra process in the creation of a product.  


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