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Posted on January 17th, 2012 by Nathan
Charbax has come through with another insightful interview with E Ink’s Sriram Peruvemba at this year’s CES. The video is seventeen minutes long and goes into detail about the future of E Ink and shows some new uses for electrophoretic displays.
Among the highlights is a new high-resolution monochrome screen with 300 dpi. E Ink is working with Epson to design a driver capable of running it. They also show the new color E Ink ereader, the jetBook Color, which is already available in Russia and is expected to start shipping in the US at anytime now.
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Posted on January 16th, 2012 by Nathan
The next obvious step for ebook readers is color. And there are currently three different types of screen technologies trying to bring color to ereaders, Mirasol, color E Ink (Triton), and Pixel Qi.
All three screens differ quite a lot, but there are similarities. Each is meant to be readable outdoors in bright light, each offers color, and all aim to be more energy-efficient than traditional displays.
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Posted on December 13th, 2011 by Nathan
Last month I posted an article about how a company called Flex Lighting is working to bring light to ebook readers by incorporating a thin LED light film on top of ereader displays.
Today I’m happy to say I can give you an exclusive first look at Flex Lighting in action on an E Ink screen. The folks at Flex Lighting sent over a video demonstration and were nice enough to give permission for me to upload the video to YouTube so that I can show you too. Take a look…
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Posted on November 1st, 2011 by Nathan
A reader tipped me a few weeks back about this Flex Lighting website that advertises a new type of lighting technology designed for ebook readers with reflective displays such as E Ink.
One of the shortfalls of E Ink ebook readers like the Kindle and Nook is that they can’t be used at night or in low-lighting conditions without an external source of light because they emit no light themselves. They require a lamp or reading light just like paper books.
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Posted on September 6th, 2011 by Nathan
Last week Charbax posted this twenty minute interview with the vice president of E Ink, Sriram Peruvemba. E Ink is the company that makes the displays for all the leading ebook readers worldwide.
I hadn’t gotten around to watching the video until this morning because I thought it would be boring blah blah blahing, but it’s actually not at all, it is very informative and interesting.
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Posted on August 24th, 2011 by Nathan
Below is a video of a Kindle, dubbed the Frankenkindle, that an electrical engineer modified to make it easier for his sister with cerebral palsy to use.
The Kindle 3 is mounted to a wooden stand with a substitute keypad mapped to the Kindle’s 5-way nav controller and Home button. A control board is attached to the back and is powered by a 5V power adapter.
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Posted on July 12th, 2011 by Nathan
Earlier this week at the International Digital Publishing Expo, Fujitsu demonstrated their latest cholesteric LCD color epaper.
Fujitsu has been one of the pioneers in color epaper technology and has been developing it for several years. Over the past four years they have released two different ereaders that use their color epaper technology, the FLEPia and the FLEPia Lite.
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Posted on April 29th, 2011 by Nathan
Zagg is most known for their invisibleSHIELD screen protectors and skins for portable gadgets like cell phones, ereaders, and tablets. They also sell accessories such as the ZAGGsparq, a portable battery pack and USB charger. Zagg was nice enough to send a sample to review.
The ZAGGsparq is essentially a 6000mAh Lithium Polymer battery with two USB ports attached. It has folding prongs on the corner for charging the device using a standard outlet, along with a European adapter. Along one edge there are four LEDs that indicate charge capacity and a button to turn them on.
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Posted on April 7th, 2011 by Nathan
Here’s something interesting. The developers over at PocketBook ported a version of the video game Doom 2 to run on an updated version of the PocketBook 360, called the PocketBook 360 Plus.
Information about the PocketBook 360 Plus is scarce at this point, but the video below shows some of its potential. It is presumably equipped with an E Ink Pearl screen and a new Freescale processor to achieve frame rates for video games.
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Posted on March 12th, 2011 by Nathan
The last week of February, Asus announced that the EEE Note EA-800, a blend between an ereader and digital notepad, is coming to the US for less than $200.
Asus’s other ereader, the DR-900, is selling in Europe and Taiwan, but has yet to make an appearance in the US.
Filed under: News, Technology | Tags: asus, asus dr-900, eee note | 3 Comments »
