Fujitsu FLEPia Lite – A Color eReader (Video)
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Fujitsu was the first company to build and sell an ereader with a color epaper display, called with the FLEPia. It was introduced back in 2007 and started selling in Japan in 2009.
Now Fujitsu has a new updated prototype of the FLEPia called the FLEPia Lite, which uses a cholesteric LCD display that Fujitsu Laboratories have been working on for the past ten years.
According to Fujitsu, cholesteric LCD displays only reflected certain wavelengths of light and have 32% reflectivity. They also claim that this technology is said to be the brightest type of display for color.
Like traditional monochrome epaper, this display technology only consumes energy when redrawing a page. No power is required when the image in on the screen. And since it uses ambient light to reflect the wavelengths of color, there isn’t any back-light, so battery life is much longer than traditional LCD displays.
The FLEPia Lite has an 8-inch display with XGA resolution and a 7:1 contrast ratio, which is 3 times higher than the previous FLEPia model. The refresh rate has improved significantly too at .7 seconds, about 2 times faster.
Fujitsu is expected to start selling the new FLEPia Lite in Japan in 2011.
FLEPia Lite Demo
Via: Softpedia
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[…] 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. […]