Physicists at Philips Research in the Netherlands have developed a new way to make “electronic paper” that could display moving images. Robert Hayes and Johan Feenstra say that their electrowetting technique could be used to make a reflective display that is four times brighter than reflective liquid-crystal displays (LCDs). Their approach relies on using low voltages to move a coloured film of oil (R A Hayes and B J Feenstra 2003 Nature 425 383).
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