Electronic-ink researchers had been pursuing color e-paper for years, as had other researchers around the world, in universities, corporate research labs, and startups. So, since the initial development of electronic ink, as the basic technology behind e-paper is known, and even more with the release of the Kindle, a big question hung over e-paper: When would we see this magical display in brilliant, blazing color?It’s not that people hadn’t been trying. In a world that hadn’t seen a monochrome display in a very long time-TVs made the switch in the 1960s, computer monitors in the late ’80s-a monochrome display was definitely quaintly old school. Yet its limitation was obvious-images could appear only in black and white. It could go weeks between charges while mobiles equipped with other displays barely made it through a day (some of them still barely make it through a day). It was easy on the eyes, even outdoors and in bright sunlight, where other portable displays became unreadable. Albert and Barrett Comiskey, who were inspired by their professor Joseph Jacobson.įrom the very beginning, e-paper seemed magical. Its story began a decade earlier, in 1997, at the MIT Media Lab, when it was created by two students, J.D. This is the moment that the concept of electronic paper, or e-paper, went mainstream.īut this black-and-white, reflective display that always appeared to be on was invented well before the Amazon Kindle made it famous. Talk-show host Oprah Winfrey released her highly anticipated Favorite Things list, with the Amazon Kindle topping the gadget category. It was the end of 2008,October, right before the holiday shopping season.
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