E Ink Electronic Paper Displays: the end of newspapers?

[mandy]

The newest, cutting-edge displays are more papyrus than plasma screen. Electronic paper, long hyped as the technology that would make newspapers and books obsolete, is finally making its way into consumer products, powered by E Ink. The decade-old Cambridge, Mass., company has grown 200 to 300 percent each year...

While the concept of a digital screen that looks, bends and folds like paper has been around for decades, E Ink has been a leader in bringing the technology to the marketplace. The company holds more than 100 patents on its "electrophoretic" ink technology -- which literally means "the movement of particles by an electrical field."...

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