Earlier this month I posted an article about the Trekstor Pyrus Mini ebook reader. Not only is it the world’s smallest dedicated ereader with its 4.3″ screen, it’s also one of just a handful of ebook readers to ever use an epaper screen not produced by the company E Ink. All the Kindles, Nooks, Kobos, […]
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Are Electrowetting Displays the Future of eReaders and Tablets?
Over the past year tablet displays have greatly improved in terms of screen resolution and pixel density, but two areas that still need improving are outdoor readability and energy efficiency. Today’s tablets with LCD screens are very bright and easy to read indoors, but outside and in areas with bright lighting annoying reflections and glare […]
A Closer Look at E Ink Triton 2 Color Displays (Video)
E Ink was at CES last week and as usual they had some demo products to display. E Ink is best known for the screens that they supply for ebook readers. The vast majority of E Ink screens are monochrome, but they also make color screens as well. E Ink calls them Triton displays. Color […]
A Look at the Ridiculously Laughable PaperTab (Video)
Every year at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas companies show off their latest and greatest gadgets. But over the past couple of years the number of cool gadgets at CES has really taken a nosedive, and this year I think things have hit a new low. No revolutionary ereaders or tablets were shown […]
A Look at the YotaPhone, an Android Phone with an E Ink screen
2013 looks like it’s going to be the year of the E Ink smartphone. In earlier posts we’ve seen prototypes of E Ink covers for the iPhone, Android-powered E Ink phones, and dual-screen phones. A Russian company called Yota Devices aims to be one of the first companies to release a dual-screen phone that has […]
PopSlate: An iPhone with a 4″ E Ink Screen, Kind of…
One way or another E Ink is going make its way onto smartphones. A couple of months back Onyx International showed off an Android-powered phone with an E Ink screen, and the company E Ink themselves demonstrated a prototype of a dual-sided Android phone with an LCD screen on one side and an E Ink […]
Japan Display Shows Off New Paper-like Energy Efficient Color LCD Screens (Video)
While we are all waiting on color E Ink to mature enough to become a viable option for color ebook readers, Japan Display is taking a different yet similar approach with low-power LCD displays. Japan Display Inc., a joint venture between Sony, Hitachi, and Toshiba’s liquid crystal display businesses, has two new reflective LCD displays […]
Video of E Ink Android Smartphone
For years E Ink has been marketing their low power electrophoretic displays for all kinds of different applications besides just ebook readers such the Kindle and Nook. There are E Ink watches, signs, traffic lights, and plenty of other things you wouldn’t suspect. Given the number of cell phone users worldwide, phones look to be […]