Electronic Paper
Continuously flexed screens would be rolled and unrolled repeatedly as a display scroll .
Ron Wilson, EETimes, November 1, 2004
Today, there are two competing technologies for the ink component: one spun off from the Media Lab at MIT, under the control of a company called eInk. The other, spun off from the Palo Alto Research Center (of Ethernet, mouse and windows fame), is being commercialized by a company called Gyricon.
"Right now, the industry is looking for something in between low-cost planar displays and real paper," explained PARC area manager of hardware systems Eric Shroder.
Flexible and printable conductors are a technology already in hand, according to PARC member of research staff Raj Apte
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