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Bridgestone exits e-paper business entirely

Chris Burns, May 15th 2012 Discuss [0]

This week the folks at Bridgestone have made it clear that they and their AeroBee technology will be out of the e-paper business inside the year. This news comes at a time when tablets appear very much to be dominating the market while e-readers in general are moving toward a more colorful future. Bridgestone will instead be focusing on its "core business" to provide "maximum value" to its shareholders as well as its customers for the near future. Read The Full Story

Infiniti Teases Sebastian Vettel-inspired FX50 in pre-Frankfurt motor show video

Chris Burns, Aug 29th 2011 Discuss [1]

Well would you look at that - the wind in our hair isn't even all the way washed and Infiniti, whom we saw reveal several lovely concepts at Pebble Beach, has come correct with a teaser video for what appears very much to be the Sebastian Vettel-inspired FX50. Red Bull Racing has star driver Sebastian Vettel at the helm here, Infiniti working with him and the team to bring forth a masterpiece of F1-racing top gear inspired bit of concept vehicle for the general public. You're certainly welcome to draw your own conclusions on what this video could really be pointing towards, but we've got a guess that you're likely to agree with. Read The Full Story

Bridgestone AeroBee Flexible E-Paper Shown off in Video

Kevin Fubar, Apr 18th 2011 Discuss [5]

Bridgestone is a Japanese company best known for making tires. Last year they developed a QR-LPD, Liquid Powder display. Lately they've been working on blowing up the size of their displays. The largest? An A3 sized display with a resolution of 1920x2560. That's the size of two sheets of standard printer paper side-by-side. That's more than big enough for almost any task I can think of. Since they showed us those babies last year, they've improved the technology greatly and built them into some working tablet prototypes. Read The Full Story

SlashGear Morning Wrap-up: November 17 2010

Chris Burns, Nov 17th 2010 Discuss [0]

Today we talk about, believe it or not, methane powered computers! Better hope you don't get too close to a heat source. Uh oh. Then there's a Berlin showing of some fantastic looking color e-paper, sponsored by Bridgestone, Epson, and Samsung, but made by an unknown producer. Then PALM throws down the gauntlet saying they'll reclaim their smartphone "birthright" soon, and BYD Alice Tegra 2 Froyo tablet wants a chomp of the tablet market too. All this and MORE on todays SlashGear Morning Wrap-up! Read The Full Story

Color e-paper drawing tablet gets Berlin outing

Chris Davies, Nov 17th 2010 Discuss [1]

A mysterious color e-paper drawing tablet has gone on show in Germany this week, apparently part of the ongoing BnF Lab project in Paris. The slate allows for color sketching on an A4-sized e-paper panel; it's unclear exactly who is responsible for producing the panel, though Bridgestone, Epson and Samsung - which have each developed color e-paper products - are listed as sponsors [pdf link]. Read The Full Story

Delta Vivitek 8.2-inch color eReader with China Mobile 3G tipped for Dec 2010

Chris Davies, Sep 30th 2010 Discuss [0]

A color e-paper wireless ereader is apparently on course for release in December, with sources in Delta Electronics' supply chain telling the Taipei Times that the company's 8.2-inch model will offer WiFi and 3G in a partnership with carrier China Mobile. It's not the first time we've heard about a color Delta ereader, either; the company demonstrated a 13.3-inch prototype at Computex 2010 back in June, suggesting it would be commercially available by the end of the year. Read The Full Story

Delta e-Magazine color ereader due December 2010

Chris Davies, Jun 2nd 2010 Discuss [0]

Delta Electronics have been showing a color e-reader at Computex this week, and the big news is that it's expected to reach the market in December 2010. The Delta e-Magazine weighs just half of Apple's iPad, but has a 13-inch display capable of showing colors, albeit relatively muted. The device is based on Bridgestone's e-paper technology, with Delta apparently working with the company to commercialise the technology. Read The Full Story

Bridgestone QR-LPD flexible e-paper gets video demo

Chris Davies, Apr 30th 2010 Discuss [0]

Bridgestone probably aren't the first company you'd associate with e-paper, but it seems they've been thinking about more than just tires of late. They've rolled out a new flexible e-paper screen at Display 2011 in Japan this week, called QR-LPD or Quick Response Liquid Powder Display, which judging from this machine translation uses electrically-charged black and white particles held in a liquid substrate. Read The Full Story

Bridgestone readying e-paper with 0.8s refresh time, color option

Chris Davies, Jul 2nd 2009 Discuss [0]

E Ink may be the best-known (and one of the widest-used) e-paper manufacturers out there, but that doesn't mean there aren't rivals snapping at their heels. Bridgestone have revealed their intention to market large-page e-paper using their own "electron powder and granular material", which allows for screen refreshes in just 0.8 seconds; that's fast enough to work relatively smoothly with pen-input. Read The Full Story

Bridgestone color e-paper display revealed

Brenda Stokes, Apr 17th 2009 Discuss [0]

Bridgestone revealed their brand new color electronic paper display technology earlier this week in Tokyo at a trade show and this display has something all the others don't--support for pen input! Read The Full Story

Porsche Wheel Case Mod is Ama-za-zing

Christina Crouch, Dec 20th 2007 Discuss [0]

I wish I had the time, skill, creativity and parts readily available to make my own casemod. Unfortunately, the best I could come up with would end up looking something like this cardboard one. But for people, like the ones behind the Porsche Wheel, who can make something spectacular I bow before you. Read The Full Story

e-paper brightens up to save power

Chris Davies, May 24th 2007 Discuss [0]

One of the common arguments against e-books is that however low-tech it might be, traditional printed paper never runs out of power. While you could mention all the other things possible with the electronic version - annotation, bookmarks, carrying hundreds of books in the space of just one - it's a far criticism to say that battery life is a key element in the lack of take-up. Although advances in e-paper have increased resolution and readability, the need for strong backlighting often proves a key power drain; Bridgestone, however, claim to have gone some way to curing that. Read The Full Story