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Printed: 26.04.2024.
PrintEstonian Visitret Displays develops mighty e-paper
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The e-paper does not use electricity, is weather and breaking proof, flexible and can be used to play high quality video picture, among other things.
Production of e-paper is cheap and can become one of the display materials in the world in the coming years. It can replace in the future metal traffic signs, books and newspapers or even paper price tags in shops.
Visitret Displays technology manager Jüri Liiv added that a realistic usage sphere of e-paper is household appliances that wish to display information – for example date, time or temperature or what is in the fridge.
The most important quality of e-paper is that it does not emit light but reflects back exterior light like ordinary paper.
An A4 piece of Visitret’s e-paper will according to forecasts cost around 10 EUR meaning that the price of e-readers might fall drastically. The first e-book readers and displays using the e-paper of Estonians are likely to arrive at the market in 2-3 years.