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 […]
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A Look at Fujitsu’s New Color ePaper (Video)
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 […]
Review: ZAGGsparq 2.0 Portable Battery and USB Charger
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 […]
Video of Doom 2 Running on PocketBook 360 Plus E Ink eReader
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 […]
Asus Eee Note EA-800 Vs Asus DR-900 eReader (Video)
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.
Video of a Color E Ink eReader – The 9.7″ Onda MyTile 10C Pro
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 […]
Pixel Qi Review – Pixel Qi Vs E Ink and LCD
I’ve been testing the Notion Ink Adam’s Pixel Qi display in various lighting conditions to see how it compares to E Ink and other types of LCD displays. Pixel Qi screens are known for using less power than traditional LCD displays because they have transflective and reflective modes that utilize ambient light to illuminate the […]
Video Playing Smoothly on E Ink Pearl Screen
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.