LG.Philips Announces 16.7-Million Color Electronic Paper, Teases World Again

Oh LG.Philips, you are a cruel cruel mistress. You teased us with your flexible 4,096 A4 electronic paper last year and now you are at it again with a new bendy model of the same 14.3-inch size, now with 16 million colors, 1.280 x 800 pixels and 7,000 hours between charges using a typical battery. You say that the "penetration of the technology would be fast in Korea," but we know what you mean. You mean we will have to settle with just licking it in Vegas, along with the rest of the other always-coming-never-arriving cool technologies. I just hope it tastes better than it looks in the front photo: More »

PHOSPHOR Ana-Digi Watch Features E-Ink Display

I suppose it was only a matter of time before a company decided to use the same E-Ink technology found in the Amazon Kindle and Sony Reader on a watch. Now that someone has, the result is interesting but slightly underwhelming. At the push of a button, users can change the watch face design —unfortunately, these changes are confined to a black and white face and various digital and analog configurations. It is a decent first try, but the technology probably won't be truly useful in this capacity until color E-ink displays become available. Available for $250. [Product Page via Wrist Dreams via OhGizmo]

Epson Creates Flexible Electronic Paper

It looks like Epson is on a roll, where the company recently introduced the first PC with the Vista-capable badge, and now it's saying it has developed a groundbreaking roll-up digital ink display. This design concept is different from Sony's upcoming Reader, where the Epson A6 QXGA Electronic Paper display is flexible, using a manufacturing process called "surface free technology by laser annealing" (SUFTLA). The company says the operation of the drivers it's written to display an image on a flexible screen is a world first. More »

DIY E-Paper Kit - It's Real!

Over the last few months, e-paper has been inching out of the sci-fi realm and into reality. And now... it's here. E-Ink is selling prototype developer kits for creating your own 6-inch e-paper display. This is the same "microencapsulated electrophoretic" TFT active matrix display used in the Sony LIBRI reader. The kit comes with a Gumstix single-board CPU running an Intel XScale PXA255 processor pre-installed with Linux. The board offers multiple input-output options including Bluetooth, USB and serial. An MMC Card reader and a 256 MB card is included, along with a rechargeable Li-Ion battery and power adapter. Dev software, source code and documentation are in there too, of course. More »

Philips Shows Rollable Display

We're getting close to electronic paper here, people. Get your panties in a bunch. Come on. We're waiting. OK. Good. More »