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HP testing material to replace newsprint

Lightweight plastic could stand in for computer display

Nowadays, many of us read or listen to the news on computers. But there are still some things one simply cannot do with a laptop or a PC — like stuffing it into your bag or spreading it out on the breakfast table.

That may soon change as companies close in on one of technology’s holy grails: a highly flexible computer display that one can roll up the way one would a newspaper or a magazine.

A team of Hewlett-Packard scientists showed off their version of that future one recent morning at HP Labs in Palo Alto, as they stood next to a machine about the size of a large refrigerator. Ironically, it looks very much like a scaled-down version of a typical web press used to print daily newspapers.

Benjamin Pimentel, Chronicle Staff Writer

Full Story: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2005/11/07/BUGP0FIINV1.DTL&type=business

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