[icernet] New screen paves way for e-paper

[Arul Selvan]

  A bendable, rollable computer screen the width of three human hairs -- 
which can display high-quality, crisp black text on a whitish-gray 
background -- has been developed by scientists at Cambridge, 
Massachusetts-based E Ink. The flexible screen is the first of its kind, 
say its creators, though many companies are still in the race to take 
the technology to the next level: using it to make single-sheet 
e-newspapers, e-books that can display hundreds of pages of text, or 
even clothing with computer screens sewn in. E Ink's screen, which is 
being heralded as an e-paper precursor, uses "electronic ink," a 1997 
invention that uses positive or negative charges to align tiny black- or 
white-topped capsules into readable text. The screen is the subject of a 
feature in this Thursday's issue of the journal Nature (subscription only).

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