Monday, April 5, 2010

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

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