Japanese No play over Peking peeking

Your roving reporter spotted a bizarre story in the China Daily about a high-tech fair in Beijing at which four pretty young women paraded in space-age costumes and gestured mysteriously towards transparent empty pockets. It seems that the pockets were to have contained revolutionary new organic electro-luminescent displays that would usher in an age of wearable computers. Only the developer, Pioneer, had refused to send them, the paper said.

The girls, it appears, were there as some kind of consolation prize. The Japanese organisers said the displays had been withheld to 'prevent the leaking of the technological secrets'.

Fang Zhenning, who set up the fashion show, said a display had disappeared from an exhibition in Germany. 'You don't know whether there are spies for your rivals in the crowd at exhibitions,' he told the China Daily.

Meanwhile Toshiba has announced a 8.4in TFT liquid-crystal screen (pictured), which uses an extremely thin glass substrate bonded to a flexible sheet. It will be used for curved displays rather than for something really useful, such as a foldable screen. But that, says Toshiba, is also in the pipeline.

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