Blogs can be used to get feedback on an organization’s product and or invention. Using blogs in organizations could be a very good thing given they can get their consumers opinions on products and thus work on improving what is not liked. Although there are many advantages, a main disadvantage would be that if these blogs are accessible to anyone, which often is the case, some people can either steal ideas and/or bash the organization publicly. You learn about things and this could always be a good thing to expand as an organization but it could also lead to destroying it.

• Click here to watch a video of what is predicted to be the "future" of Electronic Paper.

Disadvantages

Although, E-paper is a great invention with many advantages, there are, like most other form of technology, disadvantages. Firstly, E-book readers are expensive. They start at $359. Moreover, e-Paper tends to have a very low refresh rate compared to LCDs. For example, because of this limitation, a document cannot be zoomed properly without it being blurred. This could disadvantage advertisers in a way which consumers will not be satisfied with the slowness of what they can access. Furthermore, E-paper displays are presently only availavle in black and white. Also, redrawing an image on an electronic paper takes more time than it does on an LCD screen which makes this technology impractical for animation.



Sources:

1. http://www.howstuffworks.com/search.php?terms=electronic+paper

2.http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/320085/The_Future_of_E_paper

Advantages

The main advantage of Electronic paper over regular paper is that it well help every one become more environmentally friendly because, unlike regular paper, E-paper can be re-used and written over thousands of times compared to paper that is used once then thrown away or stored. Furthermore, the ink is bi-stable which means that it requires electrical power only to change its state, making it very energy efficient.



E-Paper also uses low energy and its cost is cheap to manufacture. It is light, robust and portable, thus easy to carry around without having to worry about breaking it. It could be used to the advantage of many organizations in such ways that they could use it to simplify advertising and target the right consumers. E-paper is used in applications such as e-books, credit and security cards and watches and cell phones.

Sources:

1. http://www.brighthub.com/environment/green-computing/articles/13174.aspx

2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bouqin_%C3%A9lectronique_ilad_sur_une_pile_de_

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The future of E-paper

" The average person in the United States uses 749lbs of paper a year. That’s 187 billion pounds of paper for the US, which one third of the worldwide consumption of 300 million tons."

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E-paper will eventually have the potential to replace anything presently used by paper; whether it is newspapers or advertising, such as billboards and commercial ads in magazines, or also books and notes in schools it will save us a lot of the paper wasting the world is presently doing. E-paper could be used for applications such e-books, cellphones, rollable displays, information boards and portable signs.

Sources:
1. http://www.eink.com/technology/

2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ptr3T59UU0

What is Electronic Paper?

Electronic Paper, which was first invented in the 1970s by Nick Sheridon at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center, is a thin, reusable, portable device in which you can display information. It is ideal because it is light, has an ultra-low power consumption and possesses the same appearance of a paper.

E-Paper consists of two different parts: the first is called frontplane and is an electronic ink and the second is the backplane which consists of the electronics needed to produce the pattern of text and images on the e-ink page.

Sources:

1. http://thefutureofthings.com/articles/1000/the-future-of-electronic-paper.html

2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_paper