Remember Yotaphone, the twin-display Android smartphone (color LCD in front, e-ink in back)?
"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.
Meanwhile, E-Ink, based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is attempting to create flexible, paper-like displays using inks that are electronically addressable.
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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It boasts a markedly improved 212 ppi screen (current e-ink Kindles clock in at 160 ppi).
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The iron-and-carbon-based ink used in one of the oldest Hebrew commentaries on the Old Testament is an example of this.
For the first time the old rivalry was important enough to snare front-page ink in USA Today and merit a national broadcast by ABC TV in a slot usually reserved for UCLA versus USC.
The good news is that they're being cut at a much slower rate than before, so it's still entirely reasonable to believe that black ink is in sight -- particularly if they've got a killer 2010 lineup in store.
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As well as being used for in-store signage, E Ink's technology powers Sony's e-book reader, and in April, Seiko, a watchmaker, unveiled a digital watch built around an E Ink display.
One thing all of these readers have in common: E Ink displays -- way better for reading out in the summertime sun than their LCD counterparts.
This screen doesn't use the anti-reflective e-ink that's so familiar in Kindle and Nook e-readers.
At the laboratory of Aurora, a San Diego-based firm specializing in such mass screening, little needles squirt a billionth of a liter of a potential drug into 3, 456 millimeter-wide wells. (The squirters come from another silicon-based business: ink-jet printers.) In the wells are biologically interesting molecules, such as enzymes, or cells that may present targets to new medicines.
The full line of Kindle e-ink readers is now available in over 175 countries around the world.
While researchers worked to perfect the ink, E Ink started creating large programmable in-store billboards, which were blue and white.
Here, the menu is still written out by hand daily and then mimeographed in lilac-colored ink.
In the red-ink-drenched biotechnology sector the success of Amgen takes on a fairy-tale quality.
They then turned the pages upside down and wrote over the ancient text in jet-black ink.
To overcome any queasiness about seas of red ink, analysts take refuge in ten-year discounted cash-flow models.
In the red-ink-drenched biotechnology sector the success of Amgen (nasdaq: AMGN - news - people ) takes on a fairy-tale quality.
Call it proof that there's a global wireless karma equilibrium, if you will, that needs to be maintained: China Unicom has warned that its net profit for 2009 will be down a whopping 50 percent, while one of its doppelgangers across the Sea of Japan -- NTT DoCoMo -- has encountered exactly the opposite fortune on news that it has posted a 48 percent year-over-year improvement in black ink.
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Now vertical dis-integration is the order of the day in autos, handheld computers, pharmaceuticals, ink-jet printers, health foods, cameras, microchips.
Mark Kurlansky is eating a steaming plate of chipirones en su tinta (squid in its own ink) at Marichu, a quaint, brick-walled Basque restaurant near United Nations headquarters in Manhattan.
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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This new version is equipped with an E Ink Pearl display, capacitive touch and built-in Wi-Fi to download books wherever you want in seconds.
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The court has previously heard contact details of top al-Qaeda operatives written in invisible ink were recovered from a police search of Mr Ahmed's home in August 2006.
It's also secured a partnership with E Ink to use the latest in ruggedized e-paper technology and is hoping to raise enough funds to make Popslate a reality.
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Greek police say the raider, or raiders, also made off with Piet Mondrian's "Landscape with a mill, " and a pen-and-ink sketch of San Diego de Alcala in ecstasy by Renaissance artist Guglielmo Caccia.
Sure, we ink-stained wretches come to the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas every year to see the hottest new cutting edge devices, which this year include things like 4K ultra high def televisions and a wide array of tablets and mobile phones.
The mixed reception in the press for the new phone has attracted the attention of Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster, who asserted in a research note this morning that the phone is actually a lot more impressive than some of my ink-stained (and pixel-stained) peers in the media have been suggesting.
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For example, iron-gall ink, commonly used on ancient documents, is transparent to infra-red light and most visible in the ultraviolet region of the spectrum.
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