Dr McCreary says he has monochrome displays in the laboratory that can show video at 20 frames per second, and later this year the firm plans to demonstrate a colour display for the first time.

ECONOMIST: REPORTS

But the combination of organic electronic backplanes and electrophoretic frontplanes could produce truly rollable, albeit monochrome, displays in the not-too-distant future.

ECONOMIST: REPORTS

One thing's for sure -- monochrome electronic ink displays are not the future of e-readers.

ENGADGET: The e-Reader story of CES 2010

The tablet also boasts a secondary screen, albeit a small one: a monochrome ticker that displays Android notifications on the Adam's book-like spine.

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