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Flexible Electronic Paper

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the roll-up-your-laptop-and-put-it-in-your-pocket dept.

shri writes "E Ink has just announced a breakthrough in flexible electronic paper displays. The new display which has a 100DPI resolution and is only 300 microns thick has the potential of truely changing the way we read our information."

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  1. Re:Make mine writable.. by KillerDeathRobot · · Score: 4, Insightful

    All you save is eraser rubbings.

    Or you save paint, or ink, or writing materials we couldn't dream of in the physical world. Not to mention that digital ink, paint, etc. can all be easily erased or transformed, unlike their real-world counterparts.

    I think even more important than saving materials is the fact that you could annotate webistes, documents, whatever, making this (what the GP mentioned, not what the article speaks of) much more than really expensive pencil and paper.

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  2. Re:FAX resolution by dsginter · · Score: 5, Insightful

    100dpi = FAX resolution (low-quality)

    Umm... no... Fax machines have crummy quality scanners and lossy compression techniques so they do not represent 100dpi well. Go scan a quality pic at 100dpi on a good scanner and let me know what you think of the quality.

    Here's a sample at 100dpi.

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