1. E Ink's Technicolor Moment: The Road to Color E-Paper Took Two Decades.
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Huitema, Edzer and French, Ian
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KINDLE (Electronic book reader) , *ELECTRONIC paper , *HOLIDAY shopping , *INK , *JACOBIAN matrices - Abstract
It was the end of 2008, October, right before the holiday shopping season. Talk-show host Oprah Winfrey released her highly anticipated Favorite Things list, with the Amazon Kindle topping the gadget category. • This is the moment that the concept of electronic paper, or e-paper, went mainstream. • But this black-and-white, reflective display that always appeared to be on was invented well before the Amazon Kindle made it famous. Its story began a decade earlier, in 1997, at the MIT Media Lab, when it was created by two students, J.D. Albert and Barrett Comiskey, who were inspired by their professor Joseph Jacobson. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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