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Polyera is hailing its new Wove Band as the world’s first flexible display that can wrap around your wrist like a bracelet.

A decade in the making, the Wove Band is a flexible, low-power touch display made possible by combining Polyera’s digital fabric technology with flexible and reflective electronic ink film from E Ink, which is already used in millions of displays. The combination enables the band to have a large, always-on display that's said to consume less power than smartwatches with far smaller displays.

From Polyera’s press announcement:

Polyera Digital Fabric Technology is a unique set of materials, tools, and know-how designed to enable the production of flexible electronic products at scale...Most attempts at making flexible displays have relied on traditional electronics materials, such as silicon, being deposited on plastic substrates. This approach allows the creation of products with fixed curved screens, but the brittleness of these electronics layers makes them unsuitable for products which are dynamically flexible such as the Wove Band.

Polyera Digital Fabric Technology, by contrast, uses proprietary electronic materials to enable displays that are flexible, robust, and can be manufactured in traditional display fabrication plants with minimal capital investment. The Polyera Digital Fabric Technology platform also addresses the integration of these displays into end products, by incorporating proprietary engineering and design solutions.

The band will be available for free to developers next month and ship to a “select group of artists and developers” in December with a commercial launch planned for mid-2016.

Polyera says it’s also working on a variety of flexible electronics components, including flexible OLED displays. More information is available at polyera.com.