Imagine folding up today’s newspaper only to unroll it tomorrow and find
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tomorrow’s news. Now, researchers have made a plastic electronic material that
could make such fantasies come true.
With the debut of electronic ink a few years ago, researchers took a step toward
meshing the data-handling power of electronics with the flexibility and
convenience of paper. Such inks, developed independently by teams at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge and Xerox’s Palo Alto