Arizona State University have designed the worlds first flexible touchscreen. Developed in the University’s Flexible Display Centre, the bendy screen has been created in conjunction with the US Military.

Limits of current touch screens is the rigid and brittle material used to make up the screen. The new screens use ‘E-Ink’, a new plastic substitute manufactured by DuPont Teijin Films that is more durable than glass. Formulation of the screen uses an active matrix display.

“Now that our whole device can be made flexible, it should also enable larger-sized touch-screens for electronic newspapers, textbooks and other larger format applications, ” says Sri Peruvemba, vice-president of marketing for E-Ink. Initially the technology will be used within flexible touchscreen wrist phones for the Military. Peruvemba sees infiltration of the commercial market within 18 months.

[via Mobile News Direct]