This is interesting, but durability and cost will be a huge factor in investment or adoltion. Reading about the illumination control electronics also sounds like describing it as a "display" in the common usage is not accurate. Without a lot of new electronics it's just an illuminated pattern controlled by the loom.<p>That's still potentially valuable, but you won't see arbitrary moving images any time soon. It might be possible to use many of the passive matrix methods to allow changes at low resolutions, like segmented displays.