It’s amazing just how little progress has been made in the field of electronic paper over the past few years, and unfortunately it doesn’t look like that is going to change anytime soon. The reason for this is the fact that E Ink holds a monopoly over virtually all the epaper displays used for ebook […]
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Video Tour of E Ink’s New Products, From eReaders to Kayaks
The company that makes the epaper screens for the majority of ebook readers, including Kindles and Nooks, is called E Ink. In addition to ereader screens, E Ink’s technology is used in all kinds of different applications. In the video below, E Ink’s CMO Sri Peruvemba shows off a bunch of new products and ideas […]
The Future of E Ink: Video Interview with E Ink at CES 2012
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 […]
Mirasol vs Color E Ink vs Pixel Qi – Which is the eReader of the Future?
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 […]
Inverted E Ink: Reading with White Text and Black Background on Nook Touch
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.
20 Minute Interview with Vice President of E Ink Reveals Interesting Details
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 […]
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 […]
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.