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  • Welcome to Electronic Paper. This is a new weblog by Edward Vielmetti to explore some of the ideas behind a stream of news and creativity that come from the collision between the world of computers and the world of paper.

    More and more of our lives - our reading, our writing, our newspapers, our electronic medical records, our voting, our grocery lists and holiday cards and indie zines and baby photos - are starting out electronic and staying electronic. As we rush headlong to digitize I wonder what we are losing in the process. How many people struggle with keeping up with their email when a simple paper postcard once in a while would make more of an impact?

    This blog will be explore the collision of the paper and electronic worlds, where they intersect happily and where they fight madly. I'm turning on a blog search for "electronic and paper" and will comment on what flies past, just to build a baseline. The other thing which I'll try for is a stream of scans of interesting paper artifacts, showing things that were done better (or at least differently) in another era.

    Welcome for the ride! Do you have a paper ticket or an electronic ticket?
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Siemens next with electronic paper - in 2007?

From the Guardian: "Paper view technology"

Cheap, paper-thin TV screens that can be used in newspapers and magazines have been unveiled by German electronics giant Siemens.

The firm says the low production costs could see the magazine shelves in newsagents come alive with moving images vying for the customers' attention as they move along the aisle.

The new technology caused a sensation when it was first made public this week at the Plastics Electronics trade fair in Frankfurt.

but as usual, the devil is in the details - this is vaporware so far:

The Siemens spokesman said that one square metre of the material costs around £30, and scientists working on the screens said they should be available by 2007.

If it were product managers predicting the future, that's one thing, but this as with all e-paper schemes is still in the labs.

A slightly longer bit of news here (warning, lots of ads) from physorg: "Wafer-Thin Color Displays for Packaging".

UPDATE: more commentary from David Rothman at TeleRead: "So how long until this miracle display is fit for e-books?"

October 14, 2005 in Online newspapers and journals, Thin flexible display technology |

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