When thinking about ways to reduce the usage of traditional paper beyond simply changing usage patterns, some of the technologies that can contribute to that goal include electronic paper, erasable paper, erasable ink, and alternative resource (besides tree) paper. There have been exciting developments in each of these technologies, but want to focus on two technologies: electronic paper and erasable paper.
Electronic Paper
Electronic paper (e-paper) is a display technology that is designed to have an appearance of ordinary ink on paper. Electronic paper reflects light like ordinary paper and is capable of holding text and images indefinitely without drawing electricity, while allowing the image to be changed later. (more…)
Reading, Writing, and Reflecting 