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The World's First Electronic Newspaper Display

Maybe there is a future after all for newspaper front pages, and mammoth articles that stretch across six columns. Japan's Bridgestone recently unveiled an e-ink display which can display a broadsheet page in actual size. There's only one hitch: the text and graphics take 15 painful seconds to appear. So 100-word charticlets it is then.

3:56 PM on Fri May 9 2008
By Nick Denton
272 views, 10 comments

Latest by dwt: Hi Nick -- dunno why you embedded a YouTube video crudely ripped off from my original. It ain't exactly top quality footage, but that's not the point. The real deal is here: [dwt.blip.tv] Thanks... more »