Saturday, June 13, 2009

Electronic Paper(e-paper)

You might have heard of E-Paper, which is a coming up technology. Basically E-Paper is a display technology designed to mimic the appearance of ordinary ink on paper. In market there are few implications of E-Paper concept like Sony's e-Paper Book Reader. I feel this device is just the first step, here I am just trying to predict the possibilities. You might have seen the movie named Minority Report that movie shows a E-paper which looks very much like a normal news paper and connected to Wi-Fi or Bluetooth network to update the news. Isn't wonderful, to have a device like that in our hands to read personalized RSS news feeds, mails and books hell what not? we can do everything what we are doing now on our bulky laptops, but the difference is you can just fold it and keep it in pocket just like any other paper. With this technology the bulky books will be replaced with a small flash based memory chip, which can be red by a reader in your pocket and wirelessly transfer the data to the E-paper you are holding in your hands. This may look like crazy and fiction, but with emerging technologies like nanotech. One more good news is you may never have to buy a news paper once this technology comes to existence because I bet all the news paper vendors are ready provide you news feeds for free. On the other hand just imagine how much paper you are saving, which is directly implies to greener earth.

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