Digital Newspapers

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/tech/2008/10/24/pleitgen.digital.paper.cnn
Digital paper is among us and will be the wave of the future. In a current article at CNN.com a futuristic company called Plastic Logic, that specializes in plastic items, has began to develop a digital but plastic newspaper. The item is made of plastic but has a digital cover that with the waving of a thumb will change the pages on the cover. The new item is designed to replicate newspapers across the world. The paperless news periodical will be run through either wireless connections or blue tooth capability, and downloads the most current articles for the intended reader. Plastic Logic is naming this device as the E Reader and the main objective for going plastic or “going green” with this device is to cut back on the use of trees for paper materials. Four billion trees are cut down every year for paper goods and Plastic Logic is attempting to minimize that number as much as possible.
The future of our world is digital and this only makes sense to convert the newspapers over digitally as well. The environment takes a beating more and more every year from many different sources of man made instruments, so the option to cut back on the destruction of trees is always a plus. Although, most people do not even read the paper anymore, instead they just go online and research the news on the Internet. Also, on the other hand there is always the type of old school individuals that love to sit back with a cup of coffee and read the daily paper. Can we convert these types into buying an E Reader to save paper? Well Plastic Logic plans on dropping this item into the market next year so we will find out soon enough.