One to watch: e-paper

By Richard Addis
January 8th, 2008 at 07:44pm
Newspapers

For some time I have thought that my children will eventually read newspapers on e-paper. Now I wonder whether I might too.

Last week LG. Philips announced a demo of the world’s highest resolution flexible colour e-paper. Fewer people noticed that later this year they will also launch mono e-paper, which I guess is the format for reading text rather than primarily looking at colour pictures.

LG.Philips LCD will also unveil the highest resolution mono flexible E-paper which is similar in size to a B5 size paper and it plans to launch this mono flexible E-paper in 2008.

B5 is around the size of a hardback book.

If we knew how much a sheet would cost and how easy it would be to upload text (it needs to be automatic surely) then we could work out how long it will be before it is cheaper for a newspaper to buy each of its readers a leaf of e-paper than print thousands of copies on mashed wood.

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1 Comment Add your own

  • 1. aaron  |  January 27th, 2008 at 3:40 am

    I really like your website and blog.
    Very cool and easy to read on an iPhone.
    I hope you are both well

    Best Wishes

    Aaron

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