Back in 2005, ePaper demos began to emerge as a novel way of providing access to digital content in a flexible, portable format. Plastic Logic demonstrated its new technology which (according to GizMag) "enables radical new product concepts in a wide range of applications including flexible displays and sensors. Independent experts from IDTechEx forecast plastic electronics will be a $30 billion industry by 2015, and could reach as much as $250 billion by 2025."
This technology of course raises a number of questions, not the least of which relates to technical support requirements for users of epaper products. I have a flashback to a video that has made its way around the internet of the support implications in the middle ages of switching from scrolls to books. Something tells me this is what we are in for....
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