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

, 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

Bridgestone color e-paper display revealed

, 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

PETEC printed electronics facility kick-starts UK production

, Mar 17th 2009 Discuss [0]

Printed electronics may soon bear the legend "Made in UK" if PETEC (the Printable Electronics Technology Center) has its way.  Formed from a group of printable and plastic electronics experts, together with manufacturing facilities, PETEC is offering companies a route to quickly bring products to market without first needing to invest in expensive infrastructure.  One company already involved, PolyPhotonix, is looking to commercially produce OLED lighting. Read The Full Story

Brother Industry debuts 9.7-inch E-paper in Japan

, Mar 13th 2009 Discuss [0]

Brother Industries in Japan has today released a 9.7-inch E-paper document viewer with 1200x825 pixel resolution display and viewing area much larger than the size of Amazon’s Kindle 2. But unlike the Kindle sequel, the Brother’s SV-100B E-paper is tailored to business class users with equivalent paper size of A5. Read The Full Story

Flexible e-paper mass production imminent; color version soon after?

, Feb 25th 2009 Discuss [0]

We could soon be seeing broad commercial availability of both flexible e-paper and color e-paper displays, if rumors regarding manufacturer Prime View International (PVI) pan out.  Industry sources are suggesting that PVI are preparing to mass produce flexible electrophoretic displays (EPDs), which use a TFT backplane with an electrophoretic frontplane based on E Ink technology, and will follow that up with color displays using the same processes. Read The Full Story

Huge e-paper screens give Japanese disaster advice

, Jan 27th 2009 Discuss [0]

We're used to seeing e-paper in sub-10-inch squares, slapped onto the front of an Amazon Kindle or Sony Reader, but over in Japan they're experimenting with using the technology to give Tokyo residents large-scale disaster warnings and evacuation advice.  Two installations were fitted, the first measuring 1 x 3.2m in a Post Office window, while the smaller second panel, at 60 x 40cm, was added to a bus-stop.  Read The Full Story

Mozilla Mobile ‘Fennec’ browser on e-ink touchscreen: Video Demo

, Jan 21st 2009 Discuss [0]

Take one E Ink AM300 prototyping kit, combine it with a build of Mozilla's new Fennec mobile browser, and this is what you get: a touchscreen demo of web surfing on an e-ink device.  It's the work of Jaya Kumar, who loaded Fennec into the AM300's Linux-based Gumstix controller and, with only a little modification, has a usable browser. Check out demo videos of the e-ink Fennec setup after the cut Read The Full Story

Samsung shows off new e-paper tech

, Oct 20th 2008 Discuss [0]

It seems like e-paper technology is popping up all over the place these days. In fact, Samsung just showed off their own version of the tech and it certainly is different, that's for sure.   Read The Full Story
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