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E Ink Corp said on Monday that it has agreed to be acquired by a Taiwanese company for $215 million.
In order to prove that print isn’t dead, Esquire magazine’s editor is unveiling a 75th-anniversary issue with a cover that features electronic ink.
By RICK CALLAHAN Associated Press -- In a step toward electronic newspapers and wearable computer screens, scientists have created an ultra-thin screen that can be bent, twisted and even rolled up and still display crisp text.The material, only as thick as three human hairs, displays black text on a whitish-gray background with a resolution similar to that of a typical laptop computer screen.The screen is so flexible it can be rolled into a cylinder about a half-inch wide without losing its image quality.Although it's not quite the dream of single-sheet, electronic newspapers or books that can display hundreds of pages of text, its creators said it's the first flexible computer screen of its kind.
