The 'Holy Grail' of e-paper nears
Electronic-paper products are beginning to hit the market. An e-paper newspaper was exhibited in March at the Expo 2005 electronics trade show in Tokyo. Toppan Printing Co. and NEC used E Ink's technology to create an eight-foot by eight-foot wall-sized newspaper, which displayed updated feeds of Japan's Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper. According to Toppan, this is the world's largest electronic newspaper (surprise surprise!) and is built from 272 individual electronic paper "tiles," which is a combination of an E Ink Imaging Film laminated onto a printed circuit board with pixel electrodes.
More on the subject from TechWeb:
Notepad and newspaper-sized units are the Holy Grail of electronic paper, seen as the real-world implementations which could spur mass-market adoption. "It's portable devices that make reading easier," explained Wilcox. "It's 'radio paper,' the concept that you should have something the size and weight of a pad of paper that let's you look down and see a newspaper or a manual. You want to make it wireless, to be able to access today's news."
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