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MEDIA frenzy over the launch of Amazon’s magazine-sized Kindle e-book reader last week overlooked the fact that, like its predecessors and competitors, it remains resolutely monochrome. Not for long, though. A full-colour version of electronic paper, which forms the display of these devices, is to be demonstrated later this month.

E Ink Corporation of Cambridge, Massachusetts, says it will be demonstrating a colour version of its e-paper at the Society for Information Display conference in San Antonio, Texas, on 31 May, and that products based on its colour e-paper will be on the market by the end of 2010.

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