So I'm here at the ID Tech X show with Simon Jones from Flex Enable. It's Flex Enable that have created this conformal LCD display. Tell us about it Simon. Yeah, so we've been working on organic transistors on plastic substrates for a long time now and the latest application that we've focused on is actually taking the glass out of a conventional LCD display. So many things are totally conventional about this display, except that it's thin and plastic and it can be wrapped around the surfaces of a product. So is the LCD front plane itself just the same as what we find on a glass-based LCD display? Very much so, very close to that. Yes, and for some applications like for example automotive where the qualification challenges for a display technology like LCD are very severe, if you can reuse those materials that are already qualified, that's a huge advantage. So LCD companies who currently process on glass, are they able to use this technology and how easy is it for them to migrate their existing platform to this platform? We have designed the process exactly for that so an existing and more for silicon LCD line can be converted using almost all of the same equipment. So if we're talking about something like a Gen 4.5 line that could be half a billion dollars worth of equipment, the vast majority of which we've reused for this glass-free version of LCD. Because it's based on organic transistors on a low-cost plastic substrate, we do introduce some solution coating where previously there would have been PVD-type processors and so there would be some coating machines and some lamination but substantially you're talking about the same equipment. And is your technology to process this on a higher temperature substrate and then remove it to the final plastic substrate or do you process it all straight onto the flexible plastic substrate initially? One of the great unique things about our process is it's all at low temperature so we can do everything on the final substrate. Right. In fact we do mount that substrate to glass so that it can be easily handled through the process but we have a very high yielding, low complexity way of then demounting the complete display. That's in contrast to some of the other flexible display technologies where you have to heat it up a lot with lasers and also release it and actually you can destroy the carrier glass where you reuse the carrier glass. And so what's next for you? How are you progressing it from this demonstrator to a vehicle? What are the steps involved? Yeah, there's two parallel things there. One is to actually build prototypes and install this in actual vehicles and drive it around and enable people to develop system solutions of software and other components needed to make a really compelling user interface from it so that's one thing. And then secondly we're working with the manufacturers who own these existing and more for silicon TFT fabs which we will convert to this technology. So bringing all the elements of the supply chain together to deliver this as a product as soon as possible. And does this need customized driving electronics versus conventional displays? No it uses totally standard LCD drive. In fact for the electronics as far as electronics is concerned it's a conventional LCD display. And Flexnable is a company, what is your model? Is it a licensed technology to those in the LCD business or are you looking to make these yourself? Yeah, so that is our business model and we've got this now very high performing transistor technology. The transistor is a higher performance than the morpher silicon which is a dominant encumbering technology for silicon back planes. So our business model is to take this new high performing transistor and enable many manufacturing scenarios in different applications with different customers in different spaces. It's far more you can do with this than any one single factory possibly do. It's so broadly applicable now. And yeah, these are commercially available and flexible displays from, commercially available from Plastic Logic which uses the FlexEnable transistor platform. FlexEnable is actually the R&D team from Plastic Logic now spun out with this licensing business model. So this proves that what we have here is a genuine industrial process. We're the first team to have ever successfully taken organic transistors up to an industrial scale. And so we've already been through the process of making this actually work in a factory environment. Great. Simon, thanks very much. It's a pleasure to be here. Thank you.


The presidential and national assembly election have been held, though some final decorations are still being awaited. It is noteworthy that the impacts of the presidential and legislative election on the political terrain in Nikita's state may also linger. It's a sweeping and overwhelming victory for the all-progressors, Congress, APC, and the National Assembly election in the state. Our correspondent, Ola Tsukomi Ogumako, complete this report. The APC cleared the sixth House of Representatives seat, and three Senators will sit in the states. A former member of the House of Representatives, Okwemi Bamidili, of APC defeated Aji Lola Latif of the People's Democratic Party to emerge Senators representing Aikiti Central and the National Assembly in Aikiti South, Yemi Adara Modu, of the APC defeated Senators Biodu Lujimi of the PDP, and also, in Aikiti North, Cyril Fasoie of the APC defeated Fonshuayeni of the PDP. Some of the winners have this to say. What I have done on the streets of Aikiti today, I am not able to immediately do across Aikiti Central, Centuria District, you know, with 39 different towns, but the significance of this is just to be able to say that we appreciate God and we appreciate the people. For me, it's a further clarion call to service, and from whom, to whom much has been given, much is also expected. We have always been saying that it's a process. Democracy, you don't just arrive at a destination just like that at once, then it's a process. And the process where we are today, especially through the electoral act as an accent by the National Assembly, is quite commendable. And yesterday, anybody in Nigeria would say and would know, even observers, either foreign or local, that yes, our electoral system is becoming flawless, and maybe in the next election, it's going to be better, and even though we had yesterday, it was very good. I was a very young politician, and I was really very impressed with the situations of the less cash, because there was no vote buying. I moved, I checked around, and there was more or less no vote buying. And it's something that we encourage a lot of young people to also engage in politics, because that has been one of the major factors that has been affecting young people in politics. Electoral rates in the States are also impressed with the reduction in cases of vote buying, which may have aided by the controversial narrowly designed policy. The CBN policy is actually a good policy, which President Muhammad Bari has actually endorsed, but as we can see over here, there is nothing like vote buying anywhere in the whole of Iqtis Southwest and even in the whole of Iqtis States. I only hope that this kind of system can be sustained, this situation. It has been the best that I personally have witnessed. It's just like the lecture of June 12, 1993, which was very peaceful. The governor of Iqtis States, Biyadru Uyebanji, also personally visited some of the winners to identify with some of them. The credits is a collective credit to all of us, members of the party, and all other stakeholders in Iqtis States that work towards this victory. I'm just a captain of his ship and all of us are involved and I thank God for this victory and the testament to the acceptability of the party in the States. As electorates in the States wait with beating breath for the announcement of the winner of the presidential election by the Independence National Electoral Commission. They are hopeful the poll will provide a president who will find a lasting solution to the problems peddling the country.