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Having a production base in China is a requirement for makers of high-tech gadgets like the Amazon Kindle, says the inventor of the device’s ‘electronic paper’ technology
In 1997, Barrett Comiskey, along with some fellow undergraduates and a professor at the MIT Media Lab, developed a new type of paper that could change the letters “printed” on it by running an electrical current through it. The idea was to have a digital newspaper that could update itself with new articles each morning. Eleven years later, that vision has reached the consumer market with devices like the Sony Reader and the newly released Amazon Kindle, on which books and newspapers ...
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