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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.

[...]

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.

[...]

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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2009-11-05

Eyeballs Control

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Researchers Turn to Eyeballs to Control Devices

Researchers at NTT DoCoMo have developed a set of prototype in-ear headphones that can detect and measures changes in the body's electrical state that take place when your eyes move, and have harnessed this technology to control the music player on a mobile phone.

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Introducing the gadgets you can control with your eyes

A researcher for NTT DoCoMo demonstrates how to control a digital music player with his eyes in Tokyo

The new technology from Japanese mobile giant NTT DoCoMo may also enable cell phone cameras to read bar codes to get product information, download music and coupons when the user simply looks at the codes.

'We are working on a cell phone of the future,' Masaaki Fukumoto, executive research engineer at NTT said.

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CEATEC: Eyeballs control a cell phone

NTT DoCoMo showed a set of prototype in-ear headphones that can detect and measures changes in the body's electrical state when your eyes move.

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The BeBook e-Book Reader

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BeBook 2 e-reader revealed and in the wild at CeBIT 2009!

Gallery: BeBook 2 e-reader revealed and in the wild at CeBIT 2009!

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BeBook £229

There are at least a half dozen e-Book readers on the market at the moment, all practically indistinguishable in terms of feature set and, in many cases, appearance. The BeBook scores, though, with its neat, intuitive operating system and smooth rapid page turn that quickly lets you forget you have a high-tech gadget in your hands. A huge library of classic books bundled with the reader sweetens the deal considerably.

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Hands on: BeBook's new e-reader

Is the new e-reader on the block a threat to Kindle and Sony's Reader?

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The device itself is very neat. It's far cooler looking than Amazon's unwieldy Kindle, with an impressive battery life that allows around 7,000 page turns (from a 4-hour charge) a 6-inch reflective screen, weighting in at just 220g including the battery.

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BeBook on the Gadget Show

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TESTDRIVE BeBook Online!
Checkout BeBook in our Interactive Bebook Tour >>

Bebook's unique features
- Bebook reads all popular document formats, also free ebooks and any pdf!
- No shopping limitations: buy or download books, news or magazines anywhere (anywhere!) and read them on your Bebook!
- change font types and fontsize while reading
- 512MB internal memory and SD card slot so you can exchange books and documents with friends or collegues
- open software standard (lifetime firmware updates are free!)
- 1 year full warranty
- leather protection case is included with your Bebook

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Product Reviews

BeBook

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BeBook Ebook Reader Hands On Review

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BeBook review

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Shiny Review: BeBook E-Reader

2008-09-13

Plastic Logic’s E-Newspaper Reader

Plastic Logic has developed a new full page e-reader with a thin and flexible plastic display. The device, designed for reading business documents, as well as books and magazines, was demonstrated this week the DEMO technology convention.

Clipped from: TG Daily - VIDEO – A closer look at Plastic Logic’s Kindle killer

VIDEO - A closer look at Plastic Logic’s Kindle killer

San Diego (CA) – Two days ago in San Diego, Plastic Logic wowed DEMO fall 08 attendees with its full-page electronic reader that was as thin as a pad of paper. Available next year, this reader can easily display Microsoft Office, PDF and other documents. It also has a touch-screen that lets users annotate documents by either drawing with their fingers or by tapping on a pop-up keyboard. But how will this reader compete with the Amazon Kindle? We talked to Plastic Logic’s marketing team to find out.

Clipped from: New E-Newspaper Reader Echoes Look of the Paper - NYTimes.com

New E-Newspaper Reader Echoes Look of the Paper

The Plastic Logic reader, left, has a screen the size of a sheet of paper for a copy machine. Center, Sony’s eReader; right, Amazon.com’s Kindle. The Plastic Logic device, which is yet to be named, can be updated wirelessly and store hundreds of pages of documents.

Clipped from: Plastic Logic Company

Technology for plastic electronics on thin and flexible plastic substrates was developed at Cambridge University’s renowned Cavendish Laboratory in the 1990s. In 2000, Plastic Logic was spun out of Cavendish Laboratory to develop a broad range of products using the plastic electronics technology.
The Plastic Logic approach solves the critical issue in manufacturing high resolution transistor arrays on flexible plastic substrates by using a low temperature process without mask alignment. The process, much simpler than conventional amorphous silicon processes, uses an eclectic mix of standard production equipment from display manufacturing and other industries.

Plastic Logic's flexible backplane is combined with a frontplane material (e.g. electronic paper) to make a flexible display.

Clipped from: YouTube - plastic logic epaper electronic newspaper revolution

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2010-04-13

Liquavista

Colour e-readers with video shown off

LiquavistaColor & Texas Instruments eReader demonstrator

ASUS DR750

Get ready for the newsstand in your hand

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

BenQ

BenQ Focuses on E-Readers

Qualcomm

Tablet with butterfly wings – video included

E-Books: Mirasol Display Attempts to Trump E Ink

iRex

PVI E-Ink

Color and Video Coming to Kindle? Partner Shows New Screens

Color and video coming to Kindle? Partner shows new screens

Fujitsu FLEPia

Hands-On With Fujitsu’s FLEPia Color eReader

Notebooks.com First Look at the Fujitsu Color Ebook Reader

2009-11-05

Researchers Turn to Eyeballs to Control Devices

Introducing the gadgets you can control with your eyes

CEATEC: Eyeballs control a cell phone

2009-03-09

Gallery: BeBook 2 e-reader revealed and in the wild at CeBIT 2009!

Hands on: BeBook's new e-reader

Is the new e-reader on the block a threat to Kindle and Sony's Reader?

BeBook on the Gadget Show

Product Reviews

BeBook Ebook Reader Hands On Review

Shiny Review: BeBook E-Reader

2008-09-13

VIDEO - A closer look at Plastic Logic’s Kindle killer

New E-Newspaper Reader Echoes Look of the Paper