Electronic Paper Technology: paper tomorrow
According to Judy Rodrigrues Greenpeace International:
“Our goal is a society-wide understanding of the need to reduce paper waste and contribute to consumers large and small to intervene in order to generate a real decline.”
On 09 June 2008, some fifty non-European non-governmental organizations, environmental organizations launched a project to excess consumption of paper-mail. Invited users of the paper all natural and legal commitment to maintain the consumption of paper on the site they created for this purpose of reducing shrinkpaper. org.
About 42 percent of wood product around the world is in ruins and paper production.
If we need paper, in future, should be eliminated, we can significantly reduce the rate of deforestation. Development of technologies for electronic paper, such as electronic ink from E Ink Corporation is introduced, bringing us closer to a greener future. Let’s, in this article a look at the electronic paper technology and its progress.
What is electronic paper?
In contrast to attempts by LCD, LED or CRT display system, the electronic paper technology to achieve the clarity, contrast and easy viewing of paper to an electronic display.
The technology behind the electronic card is thirty years, was developed at Xerox PARC (Palo Alto Research Center). Nicholas K. Sheridon at Xerox PARC, a new display technology known as Gyricon (greek for “Rotate Image”), which form the basis of modern e-paper technology was.
The modern ideal is high contrast electronic paper such as plain paper and have a low power consumption, must be thin and lightweight. The electronic paper display (EPD) is so light that can be folded or rolled, while maintaining the image too. In addition, the DAP should not lose power, even if the image is not available. These concepts have been damaged in the manufacture of products such as tissue-PC from Fujitsu, which uses an electronic display notebook paper is used, it is very easy and not so easy.
Electronic ink technology
Forefront of the electronic ink display technology will be incorporated both companies E Ink Corporation in Cambridge, Massachusetts (recently by Prime View International, Taiwan) and Xerox (has, through its subsidiary, Gyricon Media) in Palo Alto, California.
E Ink display technology is already widely used in devices like Amazon Kindle, Sony Reader, iRex iLiad, and many other e-book reader.
E Ink electronic ink using a transparent liquid plastic with millions of microcapsules, the small (almost the diameter of one of our hair) spherical objects. The microcapsules containing white and black color chips. The chips are positively charged white and negatively charged black-and-chips. This electronic ink on an ultrathin plastic film coated with a small circuit. This circuit can be sent in a selective way the positive and negative charges at the inserted E-Ink, so that the chips to move, then change the view.
Electronic paper: The Future
BusinessWire has recently announced that electronic reading devices have increased production by 1. 1 million units in 2008 to 20 million units in 2012. The cumulative rate of annual growth, the iSuppli analyst Vinita Jakhanwal, is about 105 percent.
The development of electronic paper technology accelerates the public was the new e-book reading gadgets fond. The Oprah Winfrey Show Oprah endorsed Amazon Kindle and named her favorite gadget, “which is very popular with book reader Kindle. E Ink Corporation and Prime View International cooperation in support of about 20 manufacturers of devices such as Amazon and e-book Sony. Because in our article on the environment and the emerging market for e-book reader, the introduction of e-Ink technology in use in the home, school programs, libraries and companies was used, provides a win-win scenario to have benefits for all angles.
The main disadvantage of the computer screen is that it is remotely readable as paper, is too bright and can strain the eyes. This is why people continue to prefer print. On the other hand, sees e-paper just like paper. The technology will change how people read books. Can small portable players with hundreds and thousands of books to read as accurately as a printed book.
The books of tomorrow will never be damaged. Once the general reader will be traditional printing methods will be history. You can use the books you purchase for download directly to your readers, and that you can get a huge savings of time and money. The delivery of newspapers and magazines is also a new electronically.
The electronic ink is not just printing on plastic dishes, but can be printed on the walls normal, your T-shirts, tablecloths, and virtually any surface. Thus, in future, you can change your background image by clicking a button.
Conclusion
The main advantage of the technology of electronic paper is that the card is no longer necessary, and the trees must be cut with the paper. Thus, the electronic paper will bring us closer to a better and cleaner.
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