The lonely dark windows of shuttered shops could soon glow with the frenetic energy of advertising, thanks to new ViVid projection screens. LinkEarth Corp has developed a flexible, cuttable window film full of LCD crystals that turns opaque when a current is applied. Project some video on the film and voila, your dormant storefront comes alive to advertise the latest neuro-implant upgrade or holographic porn.

To achieve this miraculous feat, LinkEarth Corp houses the LCD layer in a spongy polymer acrylic. The acrylic-laced layer can be bent, folded, punctured, or chopped into odd shapes without losing its ability to go opaque. The film is going on sale soon: Expect a 40-inch “screen” to cost about $1500. Projector sold separately, of course.

Link to Gizmodo article

Researchers in the EU-funded research consortium CONTACT have built a printer that can lay down LCD displays on virtually any substrate, from plastic to paper to fabric. The new printer can spit out displays in any shape, freeing gadget designers to create more organic forms.

Their new printer, dubbed Labratester 2, will be able to print a tiny TFT matrix on any material, then follow up with an LCD matrix. The process should allow cheap digital displays that could be printed on eyeglasses, clothing or anything else.

Link to ScienceDaily article.