E-paper modern industry

What we do in the e-paper course is an introduction in a couple of weeks of low tech, do it yourself, paper interfaces to computers.

The fun is that you can do everything you want with the material "paper".

This post gives a couple of links to indicate what is done, and what will be done in the future, by more experienced and commercially driven companies and more profound research.

E-paper as an idea is for a lot of people equivalent to e-readers, so there is a lot of research to get better reading surfaces, a bit recreating the magnificent properties of paper, adding one: erasing.
The e-paper.blogspot.com site is a blog follwing these developments.

We search for interfaces which are DIY, cheap, disposable, pliable...

Then we have MIT, always looking for interesting corners of research attack:
http://www.media.mit.edu/research/groups/high-low-tech

make your own radio, could be connected through buttons to a computer:
http://fab.cba.mit.edu/classes/MIT/863.09/people/mellis/final/index.html

living wall:
http://hlt.media.mit.edu/?p=27

a paper on some experiments to get rapid interfaces with cardboard:
http://icie.cs.byu.edu/cs656/Papers/HudsonRapidPhysical.pdf

a 10 dollar paper mobile phone:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/01/19/10_paper_mobile_phone/
another one: "we printed a phone"
http://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aa022801a.htm

The Chinese version looks nice, this must be design:
http://www.handcellphone.com/archives/chineses-paper-says-disposable-concept-cellular-phone-design

Which brings us to paper laptops (why not?)
http://www.yankodesign.com/2009/11/03/disposable-paper-laptops/

more modest: paper circuitry on business cards
http://www.core77.com/blog/technology/this_just_inbox_paper_circuit_business_cards_from_sparkle_labs_14005.asp

printed circuitry is also big business:
http://www.zazzle.com/wordsunwords/gifts?cg=196388290104329435