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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.
Filed under: Technology | Tags: e ink | 5 Comments »
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.
Filed under: Technology | Tags: e ink, mirasol, pixel qi | 5 Comments »
Posted on September 17th, 2011 by Nathan
Ever since I rooted my Nook Touch I’ve been experimenting with various apps, trying to find new ways to use the Nook and different ways to read.
Here lately I’ve grown fond of using night mode to reverse the usual black text on a white background to white text on a black background.
Filed under: Nook | Tags: e ink, nook touch | 9 Comments »
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.
Filed under: Technology | Tags: e ink | 3 Comments »
Posted on March 11th, 2011 by Nathan
Below is a quick look at a video for a color E Ink ebook reader from an Italian company that was on display at EBook Lab Italia 2011.
The device is called the Onda MyTile 10C Pro. It has a 9.7″ capacitive touchscreen with a 800 × 600 pixel resolution and incorporates E Ink’s new color Triton display technology.
Filed under: New eBook Readers, News, Technology | Tags: color, e ink | 1 Comment »
Posted on February 11th, 2011 by Nathan
Bookeen posted a YouTube video (below) on their blog today showing video playback on an E Ink Pearl display, the same type of screen the Kindle 3 and Sony Readers use.
Back at CES, Freescale demoed their latest ereader processor hooked up to a Pearl panel running at 8 frames per second.
Filed under: Cybook, Technology | Tags: e ink, pearl | No Comments »
Posted on January 8th, 2011 by Nathan
Freescale is showing off the power of their new processors at CES. One to look forward to is the new i.MX508 processor for E Ink ebook readers.
This next generation processor is capable of getting the most out of E Ink’s new Pearl display technology. It allows for faster performance, lower production cost, and increases energy efficiency.
Filed under: News, Technology | Tags: e ink, freescale | No Comments »
Posted on December 16th, 2010 by Nathan
E Ink, the company that makes the screens for the majority of dedicated ebook readers, announced today that their new Pearl displays have won the Best Commercialization Award at the fourth annual IDTechEx Printed Electronics Awards.
This marks the second award this month. On December 1st E Ink announced that their Pearl display were selected to appear in Popular Science’s December issue for their annual Best of What’s New awards for 2010.
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Posted on November 10th, 2010 by Nathan
LG decided to show off two new color epaper displays at the Flat Panel Display International show in Japan on Wednesday alongside E Ink’s new Triton color epaper display technology.
The first LG color epaper prototype has a 9.7-inch display with a pixel resolutions of 800 x 600—seemingly low for the large screen size. The same goes for the E Ink screen used on the new Hanvon color ereader.
Filed under: News, Technology | Tags: color, e ink, epaper | 1 Comment »
Posted on November 9th, 2010 by Nathan
Yesterday it was announced that Hanvon, the leading ereader supplier in China, will be the first company to offer a color ebook reader that uses an E Ink display.
Later in the day E Ink revealed the details of the color epaper by issuing a press release to announce the release of its next generation display technology—E Ink Triton.
Filed under: News, Technology | Tags: color, e ink | 6 Comments »
