The Swiss are famous for their chocolate and their watches. And their banking and their impartiality and their mountains and their… you get the picture.

Are they about to get famous for inventing a new kind of display? The Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich invented a new technology that uses tiny artificial “muscles” that “generate different shades by expanding and contracting in response to electricity”. You can define the exact wavelength of the colour you want, which is really cool. Since you can specify the exact colour you want, you have an infinite colour palette - display any colour you want! Sounds like a good match for the new HDMI 1.3 standard.

Not only that, but this new technology can squick pixels a lot closer together. The best monitors can do 75 - 100 DPI. This new system can do 400 DPI.

Time to market? Just a decade. Doh!

Swiss scientists hope to muscle in on video display market