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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

LiquavistaVivid epaper/color displays take on Pixel Qi

Chris Davies, May 21st 2010 Discuss [0]

Look out, Pixel Qi, Liquavista are looking to take on your 3qi indoor/outdoor viewable displays with some slick multi-mode panels of their own. The company has been demonstrating their new LiquavistaVivid technology, a dual-mode display which can automatically flip between a paper-like monochrome setting - ideal for ebook reading indoors and out - and an LCD-like full color video-capable setting. Read The Full Story

Fujitsu Laboratories shows off color e-paper display

Shane McGlaun, May 7th 2010 Discuss [1]

Fujitsu Laboratories has announced a new color e-paper display that has what Fujitsu claims to be the world's highest color image quality. Fujitsu was able to develop the color e-paper display by redesigning the panel structure and image rewrite methods used in previous versions of color e-paper from the company. 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

NEC A4-sized UXGA e-paper revealed

Chris Davies, Mar 4th 2010 Discuss [0]

Someone needs to get hold of NEC, shake them liberally, and tell them not to bother putting their excellent A4-sized e-paper panels in rubbish ad campaign boards but into huge ebook readers instead. The company have unveiled their latest e-paper prototype, and the 8.27 x 11.69 inch panel - which has a whopping 1600 x 1200 resolution - is making us drool. Read The Full Story

Wistron folding e-paper device coming 2010

Chris Davies, Nov 12th 2009 Discuss [0]

Now that Polymer Vision's new owner - Wistron - has been confirmed, it's time for some speculation about what they might have up their sleeve with the folding e-paper technology. Wistron's Brian Chong, chief of product planning, has confirmed that the company intends to release a 5- to 6-inch device using Polymer Vision tech in 2010. From the sound of it, it's very much alike the prototype device Polymer Vision themselves were showing round before their sale. Read The Full Story

Wistron confirmed as Polymer Vision buyer: foldable e-paper in development

Chris Davies, Oct 29th 2009 Discuss [0]

The unnamed Asian company which acquired ailing foldable e-paper startup Polymer Vision has been outed as Wistron. Polymer Vision declared bankruptcy back in July, and were acquired in early September; the deal is now known to have been worth €12m ($17.75m). Integration of the two companies actually began taking place last month, but right now it's still unclear whether the Polymer Vision brand will be maintained. Read The Full Story

AUO flexible e-paper and 20-inch E Ink panel announced

Chris Davies, Oct 20th 2009 Discuss [0]

The tech world waits with baited breath for Barnes and Noble's dual-display ebook reader, expected to see an announcement today, but e-paper manufacturers aren't resting on their laurels. AUO have two new milestones today: their first 6-inch flexible e-paper display, and the world's first 20-inch Electrophoretic Display (EPD) panel, the largest ready for mass production. Read The Full Story

AU Optronics planning 10-inch, A4 touchscreen epaper

Chris Davies, Jul 24th 2009 Discuss [0]

The scaling up of business partnerships in the approach to the launch of Plastic Logic's eponymous ebook reader, together with the sell-out success of the Amazon Kindle DX certainly seems to suggest that there's a market out there for large-scale e-paper devices, and that's a segment manufacturer AU Optronics seem keen to capitalize on. According to CEO LJ Chen, the company is ramping up to produce 10-inch and A4 (8 x 11 inch) sized e-paper panels. 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

Kindle e-paper makers PVI buy E Ink for $215m

Chris Davies, Jun 1st 2009 Discuss [0]

E Ink, the e-paper specialists behind the displays used in Amazon's Kindle ebook reader, Sony's Reader, the keyboard of the Samsung Alias 2 cellphone and various other devices, has been acquired by Prime View International (PVI). The deal, which valued E Ink at $215m, sees the e-paper IP and technology specialists now combined with the manufacturers of the panels themselves. Read The Full Story

Color e-paper launch delayed to 2010; large-screen Sony ereader in 2009?

Chris Davies, May 8th 2009 Discuss [0]

Bad news for anybody hoping for PVI's color e-paper before the end of 2009, as the company has pushed back the launch until 2010 having encountered "barriers to achieving satisfactory results". To make up for the disappointment, however, PVI have tipped a larger ebook reader from Sony later in 2009, to compete with the recently-announced Amazon Kindle DX. Read The Full Story