May 21, 2009
Read all about it … on bendable e-paper
by Dennis Johnson
No doubt you have been asking yourself, “What’s up with the development of e-paper — the stuff of Kindle, the Sony Reader, and the future of my eyeballs?” Funny you ask. Thanks to a tip from das Bookslut, Moby has become aware of an article by Paul Marks and Michael Fitzpatrick at New Scientist delineating how electronic readers are going to become more and more viable reading experiences, moving from the black-and-white limitations of Kindle, for example, to full-color displays: “The aim is to have a reflective display that uses very little power and is as easy on the eye as the printed word. Like E Ink‘s monochrome e-paper, used in Sony and Amazon readers, the colour version will be based on technology called an electrophoretic display.”
Dennis Johnson is the founder of MobyLives, and the co-founder and co-publisher of Melville House.