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 »