Electronic paper rewrites the rulebook for displays
Following years of development, electronic paper is now entering ebooks, mobile phones and signs, and, as Duncan Graham-Rowe reports in the current issue of Nature Photonics (1, 248 - 251; 2007), is starting to gain the market acceptance that it has long strived for. Will it be good enough for your research notes or next scientific paper? Various of the new display technologies now coming onto the market are checked out in this useful Nature Photonics round-up. Duncan Graham-Rowe concludes: "Ultimately, however, putting aside the novelty of having a flexible display, the real innovation with electronic paper will be the viewing quality in these screens. For many consumers the simple ability to read the electronic screen in bright sunlight without frowning will be more than enough to convince them."
