Monday, April 5, 2010

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."

Click here for more information about paper usage.

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



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