Reflections of the future [Point of View]

R2R animated bidirectional information device (RABID) technology, on the surface may appear to be more of a honing of current technology than a look into the future, but as the underlying components - TFT, flexible circuits, optical busses, R2R manufacturing, light-field photography, and massively parallel distributed image processingVcome of age and converge, new applications and directions will abound.