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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dana_Jorgensen" data-source="post: 1147893" data-attributes="member: 12962">I think that if you want to follow progress in the e-paper industry, you're best off following news on organic LEDs, which can be printed on a wide range of materials, including cloth and paper. Best of all, once the technology becomes mainstream, a 6 x 9 display will cost all of $25, compared to $90 for a B/W VFD display or monochrome LCD display, or $320 for a full color LCD of the same size.Full color OLED displays are not laboratory experiments; Kodak now puts them on their digital cameras and Sony is putting them into certain models of celphones.Now that the manufacturing process for OLEDs is stable, and the first manufacturing equipment for printable electronics is working (<a href="http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/09/24/wow.tech.santa.printer/index.html" target="_blank">http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/09/24/wow.tech.santa.printer/index.html</a>), I suspect that in as little as a year or two, we'll see the very first truly book-styled e-book system, with computer circuitry embedded in what looks and feels like a hardcover, a few dozen flexible full color OLED sheets for pages (no thicker than a normal sheet of heavy paper!), and a battery pack & memory card interface mounted in the spine.</blockquote>