Imagine opening the newspaper and seeing a full-color, video clip of a battle or sports match. That’s the sort of vision that drives developers of electronic paper. Even though a black-and-white version that can display static images remains in development, two new approaches offer the prospects of video and bright color.
Electronic paper is a display technology akin to conventional paper but in which the words and images can be changed at will (SN: 6/20/98, p.