New device opens next chapter on E-paper

Imagine folding up today’s newspaper only to unroll it tomorrow and find

A battery-powered electronic paper. Lucent / E Ink

tomorrow’s news. Now, researchers have made a plastic electronic material that

could make such fantasies come true.

With the debut of electronic ink a few years ago, researchers took a step toward

meshing the data-handling power of electronics with the flexibility and

convenience of paper.