Upstart style magazine Nylon has gotten ink for making supermodel Helena Christensen its creative director.

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Ever since Johannes Gutenberg developed movable type around 1439, making machines for putting ink on paper has been a growth industry.

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An Epson ink-jet printer's connector fit, but 3Com's marketers don't mention that Bluetooth behaves like a serial port rather than a parallel one, making installation difficult and keeping many printers from reporting things like the status of ink cartridges or paper jams.

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It also means that the ink can be easily removed from a garment before it is recycled, making the sorting of fabrics by color during the recycling process much easier.

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The quarter-inch thick device, built by the publisher Hearst, features electronic ink mounted on a flexible microfoil and an 11.5-inch screen, making it the biggest, thinnest e-reader yet.

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E-Ink (an MIT spinoff) and Gyricon (a Xerox Palo Alto Research Center spinoff) are making similar products but with a less efficient process.

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