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2010-04-13

Colour E-Readers

Liquavista

Clipped from: BBC News - Colour e-readers with video shown off

Colour e-readers with video shown off

A colour e-reader that supports video and potentially web browsing has been shown off by Dutch researchers.

The prototype uses screen technology - based on century-old science - that its makers say is up to four times more energy efficient than LCD screens.

Once established in the e-reader market, Dutch firm Liquavista hope to see its displays integrated into other devices in the future.

But analysts question whether consumers will be enticed by the greener gadgets.

Liquavista said it expects the first e-readers using the "electrowetting" technology to be available by the middle of 2011 and the technology to then become more widespread.

Clipped from: YouTube - LiquavistaColor & Texas Instruments eReader demonstrator

LiquavistaColor & Texas Instruments eReader demonstrator

ASUS DR750

Clipped from: Get ready for the newsstand in your hand - Times Online

Get ready for the newsstand in your hand

The next generation of ebook readers will deliver colourful, interactive papers and magazines wirelessly

Asus, the Taiwanese manufacturer that pioneered the netbook concept, has given InGear exclusive details of its DR-570 reader, to be released by the end of the year. Asus says it has developed a 6in, high-brightness, OLED colour screen that should run for a whopping 122 hours on one battery charge — and that’s not just when displaying text but under real-world conditions, such as running Flash video over its built-in wi-fi or 3G. If that claim stands up, it would make this game-changing device nearly as energy-efficient as today’s monochrome readers.

Clipped from: Asus DR-570 e-reader: fresh details! | Electricpig

Asus DR-570 e-reader: fresh details!

The Asus DR-570 packs a 5.7-inch OLED display with a sharp 768×1024 resolution with a 0.03 second refresh rate, 4GB of flash storage, 412MB of RAM, a 1530mAh battery and an SD/SDHC card slot, and it weighs just 200g.

Format wise, the Asus DR-570 will support ePub, PDF, TXT, MP3, MP4 and AVI files and play back Flash videos too so it’ll be a real multimedia juggler. We can confirm it’ll pack Wi-Fi and 3G, but there’s no mention of WiMax as with the larger, monochrome Asus DR-950.

BenQ

Clipped from: BenQ Focuses on E-Readers | Top Tech Reviews

BenQ Focuses on E-Readers

BenQ, Taiwanese electronics manufacturer, is going to draw its attention towards e-readers. The company does not have any plans to develop a tablet device which can
resemble the Apple’s iPad. Moreover, the producer
hopes that its color version of nReader will be available in the market this year and will become one of the keys to win the market.

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The company intends to provide a color screen version of the e-reader, which will be available later this year. The original nReader was launched in January and has a price tag of US$280. The device is equipped with a 6-inch touchscreen and apart from displaying e-books, it can play music. The e-reader is available in Asian markets.

Qualcomm

Clipped from: InAVate - Tablet with butterfly wings – video included

Tablet with butterfly wings – video included

As the current set of eReaders such as Kindle and its peers settle in, developers are looking to improve with a further generation of products. The next generation will certainly include larger, colour screens and semi-conductor firm Qualcomm is tackling this with a Biomimetic display technology it calls Mirasol. Biomimetics is a branch of technology that mimics naturally occurring phenomena to solve problems.

Clipped from: YouTube - E-Books: Mirasol Display Attempts to Trump E Ink

E-Books: Mirasol Display Attempts to Trump E Ink

iRex

Clipped from: iRex promise color ebook reader in 2011: 3x brighter than rivals - SlashGear

iRex promise color ebook reader in 2011: 3x brighter than rivals

E-reader manufacturer iRex have announced [pdf link] that they intend to have a color, writable ebook reader on the market by 2011. The device, which is currently unnamed, will use a system of subtractive color mixing which, according to iRex, results in three times the brightness of existing additive color electrophoretic displays.

PVI E-Ink

Clipped from: Color and Video Coming to Kindle? Partner Shows New Screens - PCWorld

Color and Video Coming to Kindle? Partner Shows New Screens

Taiwan-based Prime View International, which last year acquired E-Ink, a top vendor of electronic paper displays, displayed 6-inch and 9.7-inch color e-reader screens at a trade show in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen.

PVI has shown its color-screen technology to buyers of its displays including Amazon and Barnes & Noble, which sells the Nook e-reader, the PVI spokeswoman said. But she declined to comment on whether Amazon planned to use the screens in the Kindle.

Clipped from: YouTube - Color and video coming to Kindle? Partner shows new screens

Color and video coming to Kindle? Partner shows new screens

Fujitsu FLEPia

Clipped from: Hands-On With Fujitsu’s FLEPia Color eReader

Hands-On With Fujitsu’s FLEPia Color eReader

Fujitsu’s FLEPia seeks to address the issue of color depth with an eReader that can display up to 260,000 colors when in high-def mode while still rendering black and white text fairly fast in Quick Mode. To get to this depth the reader takes three passes at rendering a page.

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The FLEPia isn’t available in the US currently and may never be. The technology is impressive but still expensive, and tablets are elbowing in on the eReader market.

Clipped from: YouTube - Notebooks.com First Look at the Fujitsu Color Ebook Reader

Notebooks.com First Look at the Fujitsu Color Ebook Reader

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2009-11-02

Liquavista's Color, Video E-Paper

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Liquavista's E-Paper Plays Full-Color Movies

E-readers such as Amazon's Kindle DX, Sony's Daily Edition, and Barnes & Noble's multi-touch hybrid might want to start trembling. A new e-paper from Liquivista promises to allow video-playing and digital note-taking on a multi-touch, color screen.

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Liquavista October 2009

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Liquavista participates in £12 million project to create next generation flexible, full colour, video displays enabled by UK Technology Strategy Board grant

In the future, electronic readers using Liquavista technology will support full color and video on devices that are as readable and portable as paper.

clipped from www.liquavista.com

Electrowetting Benefits

Liquavista’s technology is unique in offering significant improvement over LCD in all the important areas while exploiting the existing infrastructure. The strong process compatibility to LCD offers a compelling route to manufacturing to existing LCD makers, with a very low investment barrier.

Key Areas

All modes of operation: transmissive,
reflective and transflective

Indoor/Outdoor Usability

Video and Color

Power Savings

Manufacturing compatibility

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Bridgestone Color E-Paper

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Bridgestone Corp announced an electronic paper (e-paper) device based on its "Quick-response Liquid Powder" Oct 26, 2009.

The company expects that the device will be used for browsing electronic books and electronic data. It will be tested with the assistance system for liaison officers at Kansai Urban Banking Corp from the spring of 2010.

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Bridgestone's new e-paper device

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Full-colour, flexible e-Paper is finally here

According to ePaperCentral, “unlike other e-paper devices like the Kindle and Sony’s 505/700, the Bridgestone model does not use E Ink based technologies. Instead, it uses a powerful technology built in house that could completely revolutionize e-paper called QR-LPD.”

Bridgestone QR-LPD Color E-Paper Demonstration

Bridgestone Color E-Paper Featured on a Japanese Show

clipped from www.epapercentral.com

The Technology

The technology behind the screen itself is based on Bridgestone’s own QR-LPD electronic powder, which provides the quick rendering of black and white images that are as clear and paper-like as E Ink’s technology, and uses about the same battery life. Color is provided by a series of filters that go over each individual pixel that create the impression of a high definition, true color display.

The touch screen surface is provided by a WACOM tablet, much like the touch screen surface used in Sony’s PRS 700 and the IRex Iliad. As you can see in the example videos, the touch screen updates really quickly, but the actual full display refresh can be very slow. Depending on the model and the image displayed, the full screen refresh can be anywhere from .8 seconds to a full 15 seconds.

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Philips Color E-Paper for iRex Readers

Clipped from: Technology Review: Color E-Paper That Rivals the Real Thing

Color E-Paper That Rivals the Real Thing

Turning pixels on their side may finally mean high-quality color electronic paper.

Despite Amazon's promise to reinvent the newspaper and magazine industry with its new, large-screen Kindle DX electronic reader, some people may be reluctant to embrace the technology until full-color displays are possible. A new approach developed by Philips now offers fresh hope for color e-paper displays that are so bright and clear that even traditional liquid crystal displays (LCDs) will pale in comparison.

According to Kars-Michiel Lenssen, who headed the work at Philips Research, based in Eindhoven, in the Netherlands, the new approach has the potential to create color images that are three times brighter than displays that use color filters, including LCDs. "This is the closest an electronic-paper technology ever got to printed paper," he says.

Clipped from: Bringing the newspaper medium into the digital age - Philips Applied Technologies

Bringing the newspaper medium into the digital age

Although all modern newspapers are available on-line, the paper copy that can be tucked under the arm and read virtually anywhere still holds a lot of attractions. Recognizing this fact, Philips Applied Technologies took a completely new look at the newspaper medium and how we use it. This led to the development of the E-reader for iRex Technologies. The E-reader is a true digital replacement for the paper newspaper offering all the convenience of this classical news medium and a lot else besides.

Clipped from: iRex Technologies

iRex Developing High Quality Full Color Digital Readers

Eindhoven, 2 June 2009 ‐ The world’s leading provider of e‐reading solutions, Netherlands-based iRex Technologies announced new progress on development of a next generation of color, writable, ultra-thin digital readers expected to launch mid 2011. This news reaffirms and substantiates iRex’s position as a leading innovator in the digital reading market following their 2008 launch of the iRex DR1000. Leading the way for others, the DR1000 was the first commercially available ‘writable’ digital reader with a 10.2 inch screen.

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Technology Review: Color E-Paper That Rivals the Real Thing
Bringing the newspaper medium into the digital age - Philips Applied Technologies
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iRex Technologies
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