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Why would a robot with a brain the size of a small planet need an external internetting device?
Taylor is an impostor!!
V.A.V. the rigidity argument,
If I could have a legal pad sized sheet of e-paper that rolled up around a central scroll spine, with a nifty spot for a stylus and a few rudimentary buttons, that would be nice, the best of both worlds.
However, I think Utah has it a bit skewed. Doubt very much that electro-phoretic displays will ever be as flimsy as a newspaper. The basic structure of the product requires some thickness, and I think also there is the need for rigid portions, like the power source and some circuitry.
Not having ever seen a native, unenclosed display, I imagine it would be like a sheet of laminate, or maybe a thin, shiny magazine that bent only when you wanted it to.
In terms of durability, a rigid sheet of the stuff capped by glass does not seem like it would survive many falls, or drops into the watercloset for that matter.
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