Researchers have devised ways to make flexible electronics, for such things as electronic paper.
This is several hundred pages of electronic paper bound together, with a computer concealed in the spine.
Plastic Logic's first commercial application is likely to be as backplanes for liquid-crystal displays or electronic paper.
Featuring electronic paper display, absolutely unique battery lifetime (up to 60 hours active) and patented USB hinge design.
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Electronic paper could make these even lighter and changing or recharging batteries could become a thing of the past.
Xerox is experimenting with its own conductive inks for making electronic paper and circuitry for flat screen monitors and billboards.
In any case, it will take at least five years before people will be able to read The Economist on electronic paper.
On the electronic paper screen the notifications are on all the time.
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"In the recent past, we enabled an entire eReader market with our electronic paper, " said Felix Ho, Vice Chairman of E Ink Holdings.
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Although Mr Peruvemba says his firm has started manufacturing displays with flexible backplanes in-house, its many partners are also busy researching ways to make electronic paper as flexible as the real thing.
That is because electronic paper does not need backlighting in the way that liquid-crystal displays do (see article) and making beads or capsules change colour does not take much energy.
The Samsung e-book displays reflect light naturally and deliver an appearance similar to that of printed paper, allowing people to read more naturally than they would with other backlit electronic paper devices.
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The suit alleges that AIG employees prevented some Starr employees from accessing their offices and electronic and paper files and e-mail, and monitored their e-mails.
There is a way to get the best of both electronic and paper worlds, though, which is to use a Livescribe pen and notebook.
Additional carbon footprint savings will come from reduced office energy consumption, roadway repairs, urban heating, office construction, business travel and paper usage (as electronic documents replace paper).
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Foti's exhaustive list of demands for documents include all of UBS' electronic and paper communications files relating to Sedona stock, its trading records, monthly stock inventories, stock loan documentation, information regarding commission payments, customer account records and research done in house related to Sedona.
According to a report by the Washington Post, Chinese authorities instructed Tibetans to turn in their old passports, ostensibly to be replaced by electronic ones during a paper-to-electronic conversion.
As electronic books push paper ones aside, movable type seems fated to be replaced by movable text.
To some extent, this is already happening, as electronic payments replace paper.
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Filing season for both paper and electronic returns begins on January 30, 2013 .
New Jersey is only the most recent battleground in the war between paper and electronic voting machines.
Any letter, publication, form, notice, or instruction whether in paper or electronic form.
Under current law, insurance companies must issue a paper and electronic certificate when agreeing a policy with a vehicle owner.
As president, I will require that all voting machines, including electronic ones, use paper ballots that can be verified by voters.
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But electronic cash, like paper cash, can be anonymous, untraceable and a good deal more convenient for money launderers than lugging a suitcase stuffed with notes around the world.
And the newspaper companies' tribulations do not necessarily presage the demise of the news business, for they stem in part from the tumultuous and expensive transition from paper to electronic distribution.
They would be asked to switch from paper to electronic medical records, to organize with other doctors to reduce medical complications and unnecessary costs, to try to arrive at a package price for a child with asthma or a man with kidney stones.
It's simply intended to preserve the paper and the electronic records of the administration.
The decision to audit all the paper receipts of electronic votes is seen as a major concession to the opposition.
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