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Electronic paper is getting closer

By Andrew Grant-Adamson • Feb 7th, 2007 • Category: Technology

Shane Richmond at the Telegraph has a detailed explanation of the technology behind a new flexible screen which rolls up into a mobile phone size device, and asks if it is “the newspaper of tomorrow”. The point is this device should be available later this year.

From the first digital audio player to the iPod took six years and every new technology seems to be adopted even faster than the one before. After years of talk about plastic paper it looks as if we will be getting it soon.

Andrew Grant-Adamson is Andrew Grant-Adamson is a journalist who now teaches a new generation of writers, subs and editors at the University of Westminster.
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