Notes from the Electronic Cottage 5/08/08

Producer/Host: Jim Campbell

Topic: Thirty-five years ago, Nicholas Sheridan at Xerox PARC came up with Gyricon, a process that presaged the effort to create electronic paper. Ever since, electronic paper has been, according to its promoters, “just around the corner.” Many false starts later, that claim may finally be true today . Here’s a look at some e-paper technologies that could leap out of the lab in the next few years – or sooner.