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Electronic Paper's Next Chapter.

The article focuses on electronic paper technology for use in consumer electronic devices, such as electronic books. The author mentions that the biggest technological challenge is the electronic paper color displays. He suggests that new technology is necessary to render better-quality color inexpe...

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Published in:Communications of the ACM Vol. 52; no. 11; pp. 15 - 18
Main Author: Kroeker, Kirk L.
Format: Article
Published: Association for Computing Machinery Nov2009
Subjects:
Color display systems
Electronic paper
Information display systems
Electronic book readers
Electronic books software
Information display systems industry
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost
Summary:The article focuses on electronic paper technology for use in consumer electronic devices, such as electronic books. The author mentions that the biggest technological challenge is the electronic paper color displays. He suggests that new technology is necessary to render better-quality color inexpensively as well as to show moving images and other displays. The author discusses research into electronic paper technology including that by Prime View International, the company that manufactures the Amazon Kindle; Plastic Logic; and Philips Research.