Enough speculation - how about some facts? (Score 2)

There is already a lot out there on the web about this subject. The
electronic paper they're talking about (described, by the way, at
comdex, http://daily.zdevents.com/comdex/fall98/thurs/ts2. html) is
based on Xerox's 'Gyricon' electronic ink system, which they've been
researching for quite a while now. There's an article about it in
Wired (http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/160 28.html).
There are descriptions of Gyricon on the web, including the 98
Scientific American article
(http://www.sciam.com/1998/0998issue/0998techbus 1.html ) and also a
set of slides with illustrations for the talk 'Observations on Reading
and Publishing in the Electronic Age'
(http://www.gr.osf.org/i-commerce/) that describe Gyricon. Gyricon is
not the technology (The Last Book -
http://www.research.ibm.com/journal/sj/363/jacob son.html) developed by
the MIT Media lab. The Media lab technology was spun off into a
private company, E Ink Corporation (http://www.eink.com/) that has all
kinds of press releases describing what they've been up to lately.
They seem to be mostly focusing on signage right now, and have even
done some big public demos
(http://www.wired.com/news/news/technology/story /19457.html) recently.