Touchscreens as thin and light as skin have become a reality

Recently, the University of Berkeley in the US has announced their latest research achievement - the e-skin, a bendable screen as light and thin as paper!

Bendable screens like these have been in development for quite some time. For instance, the Xsense technology allows the screen to be bent to a certain degree while still maintaining a good touch-screen experience. However, e-skin is more flexible and promising: since the screen is like a plastic film, it can be bent multiple times and can be wrapped around any shaped surface.

If this material were to be applied, then touch screens could potentially be found on the outer layer of objects of any shape, regardless of its form. Imagine a touch screen blood pressure and heart rate detector that can be wrapped around your arm; or an interactive screen with an irregular geometric shape. More importantly, this material is made using existing chip manufacturing technologies, making it not difficult to produce, and thus easy to commercialize.