Tag Archive for 'e-ink'
Chinese firm Hanvon have announced a 5-inch ebook reader, the N510, using the E Ink Vizplex display and Hanvon’s own pen-input technology. The N510 is 11mm thick, in part because it has no backlighting, and has a 167ppi, SVGA 800 x 600 display. It’s a well-travelled design, too; astronauts used the N510 in space during the [...]
Things are looking up in the world of e-ink. In fact, NEC LCD Technologies have come up with a new larger-sized electronic paper, which will make the way for full displays that use the microcapsule electrophoresis system.
The iRex Digital Reader 1000-series may not have been the revolution in ebooks that the company’s teaser campaign initially suggested, but that doesn’t mean the devices themselves aren’t impressive. MobileRead have just received the mid-range DR1000S, which has touchscreen input for document annotation but no WiFi or Bluetooth capabilities, and have put up some unboxing [...]
iRex’s promised eBook announcement is here, and they haven’t let being scooped by Forbes spoil their fun. The Digital Reader 1000-series is, with a 10.2-inch display, the largest e-ink based digital document viewer on the market, and as was leaked there will be three versions culminating in the 1000SW with WiFi and Bluetooth (though no mention of [...]
A teaser campaign just isn’t sacred any more. iRex had no sooner started light ripples of rumor with their “Seeing is Believing” tease, when Forbes steps in to scoop the new device. According to Andy Greenberg, it will be the iRex Reader 1000 complete with a 10.2-inch e-ink display, complete with optional stylus for handwritten [...]
Plastic Logic’s recently announced e-newspaper probably suffered, ironically, for looking simply too much like a slick concept rendering. We’re so used to seeing realistic mock-ups that it’s hard to believe something like the 7mm flexible display could actually exist. However TG Daily have some more information and a video of the device in action at DEMO [...]
Electronic versions of newspapers aren’t new, and neither are e-books, but Plastic Logic’s so-far unnamed entrance to the market certainly brings a fresh dose of style. Larger than e-book-du-jour the Amazon Kindle, the Plastic Logic device has an 8.5 x 11-inch display and uses gestures for control rather than a flood of unintuitive buttons.
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
