Tag Archive for 'e-ink'


Thursday, May 22nd 2008 by Chris Davies

You could be forgiven for thinking E Ink have cornered the e-paper market; after all, their Vizplex displays are currently used by Amazon’s Kindle, Sony’s Reader and eBook ranges from multiple other dedicated manufacturers.  Seiko Epson might give you cause to think again, however, having just unveiled a 13.4-inch, A4-sized screen at SID 2008.  That’s almost [...]

Tuesday, May 20th 2008 by Chris Davies

Art Lebedev Studios, the team behind the Optimus Maximus keyboard, have released some fresh (if scant) detail on their next project.  Named Optimus Popularis, as the name suggests it’s another keyboard but one aimed more at general consumers.  Estimating a sub-$1,000 final pricetag, it apparently won’t use OLEDs for the keys but ”will be based on [...]

Tuesday, May 20th 2008 by Chris Davies

Digitizer specialists Wacom and e-paper manufacturers E Ink have announced a deal that will see the former’s digital ink technology incorporated into the latter’s low-power, paper-like electronic displays.  It will open up the market for eBooks and newspapers that can be annotated and those notes stored and exchanged.  The pair are describing the development as “the [...]

Monday, May 12th 2008 by Chris Davies

Car manufacturer Delphi will be one of the first to use a new “segmented display cell” (SDC) from Manufacturer E Ink, which promises simple, clear displays that are both paper-thin and require minimal battery power. E Ink currently supplies the e-paper displays for Sony’s Reader and Amazon’s Kindle eBooks; however these new SDC panels [...]

Wednesday, Mar 12th 2008 by James Allan Brady

These two new eBook readers coming out of Taiwan should start offering up some better prices and more competition to the Kindle and other players like it thus driving down the price. Personally I’m not much of a reader, which is kind of funny all things considered, so this whole market is lost on me, [...]


Tuesday, Dec 11th 2007 by James Allan Brady

So this watch has the analog arms (second, minute, and hour), but the face can change. It can be an analog time-telling face, a digital time face, or any number of other pre-programmed faces using the E-Ink display that makes up the face.

Tuesday, Nov 6th 2007 by James Allan Brady

It uses E-Ink so you only get whatever you are reading in black and white, but it will save you a lot of battery, in fact you can view up to 8k pages on a single charge. There is an SD card slot to store your library on too.

You can also use this E-Book reader [...]

Friday, Oct 26th 2007 by James Allan Brady

There is a front-lit e-paper model that was made by Alps Electric which is a step in the right direction for those concerned with reading at night. There was also a rather large e-paper display that was somewhat flexible.

The larger e-paper model was measured at 9.7-inches and has a flexible TFT substrate. Furthermore, it had [...]

Thursday, Oct 18th 2007 by Chris Davies

News freshly drizzled onto the pages of Ricavision suggest that their wireless e-ink Home E-Reader is set to launch next month.  Ricavision, who have already made a name for themselves leveraging Windows Sideshow into cordless devices such as remote controls or fridge magnets, saves money on the device by offsetting the processing and rendering duties [...]





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