According to SearchMobileComputing.com, E-paper or Electronic paper, is a portable, reusable storage and display medium that mimics paper and ink (E-paper). This technology is as flexible as real paper and it can be refreshed countless times. Small Times, an internet website that specializes in new technology, states that many semiconductors manufacturers and other electronics companies have created an e-paper that has a “100-micron layer of water with a droplet of colored oil, a 1-micron-thick hydrophobic (water repellent) Teflon layer, a 15-nanometer transparent indium tin oxide (ITO) patterned electrode layer and a white polymer background” (Philips finds an e-paper..). Hence, thanks to these materials, e-paper not only mimics paper it makes its materials more resistant and with more vivid than conventional paper colors. The following video shows a prototype of e-paper manufactured by Phillips:
According to Nicholas K. Sheridon, inventor of Gyricon, companies such as IBM and HP want also a share of this pie by creating their own e-paper technologies with features that will eclipse any other type of display technologies already in use. These features go from “flexibility and even bendability; thinness, at approximately 0.8 millimeters; lightness; a bi-stable nature, requiring no power to maintain an image and very little power to change it; good brightness, contrast, and resolution; as well as vivid color and a decent refresh rate capable of displaying animation and possibly even video" (Sheridon). Hence, e-paper will display information in a very reliable, effective, vivid and resistant way. Therefore, E-paper features will revolutionize display technologies in a scale never seen before.
References:
E-paper; http://searchmobilecomputing.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid40_gci535038,00.html
Philips finds an e-paper technology that's quicker on the draw,January 6,2004
http://www.smalltimes.com/articles/article_display.cfm?Section=ARCHI&C=Consu&ARTICLE_ID=269182&p=109
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