Electronic Paper, Ink Continues Its Relentless March Toward World Domination

The days of holding a cumbersome, inky newspaper (or book) may soon be over. Well, that’s what a company called Plastic Logic wants us to think.
The company will be showing off a next-generation electronic ink device at a trade show (Demo, if you’re so inclined) today. The device, which doesn’t have a name or price, has the backing of some publishing industry bigwigs, including Hearst.

It’s sorta like the Amazon Kindle, in that it’s an electronic device that can be used to read books, newspapers, magazines, etc. Except this unnamed device has a screen that’s 2.5 times bigger than the Kindle’s. That’s not insignificant.
The device still isn’t the end-all, be-all for this technology‐just a flexible piece of plastic without the hard “back” or whatever — which, apparently, is still a few years off. And it’ll be a few years thereafter before you can convince people to stop carrying their disposable newspapers. Who cares if you lose your copy of the Post on the way to work? Losing your fancy electronic ink piece of plastic is a whole ‘nother story.
New E-Newspaper Reader Echoes Look of the Paper [New York Times]