Sony e-paper makes for a flexible computer

Sony displayed its latest electronic paper prototype at an exhibition of its latest gadgets at a dealer convention in Tokyo yesterday. Shown to be eminently curlable (and perhaps even able to handle some dog-ears or two), the e-paper has a film base and is shown to be thin, light and flexible with a low power consumption. 

Earlier this year Sony showed off its prototype flexible OLED video display, and this latest e-paper suggests commercialization of the technology is edging ever closer to reality.

Thanks to their innovation Sony was revealed earlier this year to be the second-most desirable company for Japanese salarymen to work for, second only to Google. 

... and then it's a map.

Plans to lead the 3D TV field

At the latest convention the company also displayed their latest Sony Reader Pocket Edition, digital cameras, a new range of Sony Walkman personal media players and prototype model of the Vaio notebook computer, which can show 3D images on its LCD display.

A new high-definition digital camcorder Handycam NEX-VG10 was also shown off, which is the world's first consumer interexchangeable lens HD camcorder with 14.2 mega-pixel Exmor CMOS sensor.

As well as leading the field with e-paper, Sony also aims to take a 50 percent share of the market for 3D televisions in Japan in 2011, Nobuki Kurita, president of Sony's marketing division, said in a briefing.