Electronic Paper Reaches Video Speed

Nature.com today has an article about Electronic Paper which is capable of adjusting the print on the page as you watch. Just think, in the future, your computer game guides, books, comics, maps, newspapers, or anything written may only come on a single sheet of paper from now on!!

Read all about it at nature.com:

Paper capable of playing videos has been invented at the Philips Research laboratory in Eindhoven, the Netherlands1.

A single sheet looks pretty much like ordinary paper. But the ink can be rearranged electronically fast enough to show video movies.

Its devisers, Robert Hayes and Johan Feenstra, have also figured out how to create full-colour displays. Their colour screens would be four times brighter than the flat devices currently made from liquid crystals, they reckon.
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High-resolution monochrome electronic paper is already on the verge of commercialization, produced by Massachusetts-based company, E-Ink, in collaboration with Philips. Here the 'ink' consists of countless tiny, transparent capsules of black and white powdered pigments, which are drawn by electric fields to the front face.

by Philip Ball, nature.com