The week’s Economist has a couple of interesting articles on display technology. The first one is about electrophoretic displays – the sort of thing that is used in the Kindle and Sony Reader, which helps make them much easier on the eye (and on the battery) than an LCD screen. The exciting news about these displays is that they will soon be available on a flexible film, just like real paper. For now they are still black and white, but we managed with that for long enough with paper, didn’t we?

The other article is a rather sillier subject – 3D television. In most cases that still means wearing silly glasses. However, at CES Philips were demonstrating actual 3D projectors. Goodness only knows how much they’d cost right now, and of course there is very little in the way of programming for them (Blu Ray is another matter). But I guess it is coming.