People familiar with Amazon’s Kindle electronic book reader will see something familiar when Esquire rolls off the presses with its October issue.

Through a deal with E Ink, and the participation of Ford Motors, Esquire’s 75th Anniversary stands to arrive with a paper cover, powered by a battery, featuring the kind of technology once imagined only in Jetsons cartoons. E Ink’s technology is used in Amazon’s Kindle and other e-book readers.

E Ink said Esquire and its publisher, Hearst, approached the company in the summer of 2007 to work on an electronic paper concept that would be suitable for a print magazine. The new opportunity needed to overcome several challenges, but is now on schedule for debut.

Ford will be the big beneficiary of the buzz behind Esquire’s printing and E Ink’s technology. The auto maker plans to debut its Flex Crossover inside the whiz-bang electronic paper cover of Esquire, in a double-page advertisement.

Esquire plans to take a forward look at the 21st Century from the platform of their electronic paper magazine. Among the ideas we wonder if they will consider, beyond yet another Angelina Jolie cover: making e-paper capable of receiving and displaying Internet content delivered wirelessly.