LG Debuts Flexible E-Paper

Hot on the trail of their CES 2010 announcement to do e-paper, LG shows off a prototype of their flexible e-paper display. Their flexible display is the largest (and perhaps most flexible and bendable) on the market, weighing in at a long 19″ and paper thin. It’s about the size of A3 paper, and it uses metal foil layered...

Newspapers and Magazines: E-paper or Bust in 2010

Newspapers and magazines have been dying slowly since the invention of the internet, and each day they struggle to regain their glory days of a few years past. Now it seems they’ve found their saviors in the land of e-paper, with different forms of e-reader technology allowing them to get new subscribers electronically. Can this...

Hearst Launches Magazine/Newspaper Based E-Reader

Magazines and newspapers are slowly dying.  Sure, traditional print is seeing drops in sales all across the board, and there is a recession going on, but magazines and newspapers have been hit the worst.  In a scramble to inject new life into this once thriving market, we’ve heard lots of different proposals from lots of different...

Will E-Readers Solve Newspaper Woes?

In the face of increasing competition from alternative media, newspapers have been struggling for survival for some time as both subscriber and advertising revenues continue to shrink. Newspaper printers have sought multiple solutions to cut costs ranging from switching to lighter weight paper to garnering incremental revenue in the...