The Future of Paper is Now
In Cambridge, Massachusetts a company called E-ink is close to perfecting a great dream of the computer world — electronic ink. The firm has developed an incredibly thin portable digital display that really looks like ink on paper. The letters on E-ink’s displays change as easily as those on a computer screen. Michael McCreary, the company’s head of Research and Development, stopped by the studio with a prototype.
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