Philips to mass-produce e-newspaper displays

Philips Electronics has partnered with E Ink and is preparing to mass-produce a slim, five-inch display panel upon which users can download newspapers and magazines. If connected to a mobile phone, it can also be used to download web pages, a book or e-mail.

Philips said it had created the displays using electronics circuits made of plastics, which power a monochrome display created with technology from E Ink, a privately-held U.S. company from Cambridge, Massachusetts.

"We can produce this in batches. It's no longer a research project. We're going to build a pilot line that should be ready in 2005 to make one million displays a year," a spokesman at Philips Research told Reuters.

A Philips spokesman said the company could produce about 1 million displays by 2005.

Here's a video demonstration Poynter's Larry Larsen spotted.

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