This purchase shows E Ink's strong commitment to electronic paper displays.
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Meanwhile, E-Ink, based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is attempting to create flexible, paper-like displays using inks that are electronically addressable.
Newspapers have been replaced by foldable, paper-thin displays and small robots that mimic insects and other animals (spiders, in the case of the movie) are used by law enforcement agencies to explore hard-to-reach spaces and track down suspects.
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Plastic Logic's first commercial application is likely to be as backplanes for liquid-crystal displays or electronic paper.
The team of Professor Keon Jae Lee from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, KAIST has developed a high performance flexible all-solid-state battery, an essential energy source for flexible displays (see paper in Nano Letters: "Bendable Inorganic Thin-Film Battery for Fully Flexible Electronic Systems").
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Ntera's first product is NanoChromics, an ultra-thin display that looks like regular paper but can change what it displays, just like a computer screen or LCD.
These electronic pages use less power than liquid crystal displays and also look more like printed paper.
Thin films of such nanoparticles could be used to make digital displays with the look and feel of paper.
That is because electronic paper does not need backlighting in the way that liquid-crystal displays do (see article) and making beads or capsules change colour does not take much energy.
Such displays usually take the form of a large, blank sheet of paper on which students are invited to write anything they like.
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The company recently published a research paper on when to consider alternatives to routing orders to the cheapest venue that displays the best price.
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The Samsung e-book displays reflect light naturally and deliver an appearance similar to that of printed paper, allowing people to read more naturally than they would with other backlit electronic paper devices.
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Although Mr Peruvemba says his firm has started manufacturing displays with flexible backplanes in-house, its many partners are also busy researching ways to make electronic paper as flexible as the real thing.
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