But why are most e-ink displays hidden behind a rigid glass screen and not made bendy?
Among them is South Korean firm LG Displays, which has just begun mass-producing fully flexible e-ink screens.
Remember Yotaphone, the twin-display Android smartphone (color LCD in front, e-ink in back)?
With non-glare, no backlit e-Ink display, it delivers a paper-like reading experience, even under bright sunlight.
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This screen doesn't use the anti-reflective e-ink that's so familiar in Kindle and Nook e-readers.
It boasts a markedly improved 212 ppi screen (current e-ink Kindles clock in at 160 ppi).
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The full line of Kindle e-ink readers is now available in over 175 countries around the world.
He boldly and perhaps a bit wishfully predicts that e-reader devices using E-Ink will outsell the iPad this year.
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He argues that the two readers signal E-ink's transition to larger-format digital media that include magazines and newspapers.
Meanwhile, E-Ink, based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is attempting to create flexible, paper-like displays using inks that are electronically addressable.
When I came up in college, e-ink had nine pixels on a device the size of a piece of paper.
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The Pebble has an e-ink display similar to those found on e-readers, and last seven days on one battery charge.
Like many of the e-book readers that followed, it used e-ink - an innovation developed by a US company of the same name.
The e-ink screen shows battery and signal status, the number of connected devices and a smiley icon to confirm public mode.
E-ink felt significantly more like printed text than a sometimes glare-prone tablet screen, which was difficult to read in bright sunlight.
Familiar sentences rendered on lucid e-ink screens are read quickly and effortlessly.
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Evernote's Web Clipper allows saving content with a click, and pages saved with Evernote Clearly are optimized for Reader's crisp E-Ink display.
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"There are about 30 million flexible e-ink displays in the field today - the oldest working ones are from 2006, " says Sri Peruvemba of E-Ink.
There will always be a place for books that are mostly just words and are well-rendered on paper or an e-ink device.
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In its former incarnation as a division of Phillips, iRex developed the original E-Ink display that was eventually licensed to Amazon and Sony.
The device seen above and in the first gallery below is one of just five prototypes of the E-ink reference phone in existence.
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E-Ink (an MIT spinoff) and Gyricon (a Xerox Palo Alto Research Center spinoff) are making similar products but with a less efficient process.
Sony's no stranger to the odd e-ink device, but its latest prototype creation isn't targeted at the bookworm, it's intended to educate.
We can look forward to e-ink monitors that render text more pleasingly than current screens and hand-held devices that recognize even the most scrawled handwriting.
Another company working with E-Ink is UK firm Plastic Logic.
Today at CTIA in Las Vagas, Yota devices, the company behind the innovative handset, introduced Ruby, a sleek LTE hotspot with a small e-ink screen.
Amazon's new e-reader uses the same innovative e-Ink screen and wireless connection that made the first Kindle a modest hit in the world of digital bibliophiles.
With technology from Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey, E-Ink recently demonstrated a prototype of a flexible page display that was driven by plastic transistors.
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