E-paper
”Next Gen Optimus Maximus Details: Sub-$800, One-Screen and Raised Keys
Paper e-Ink Scale Design Looks Great on Paper, Might Not Be Practical
E-Paper Slap Bracelets: Like the 80's...Except Different
Napkin PC Concept Utilizes Multi-Touch E-Paper Display and RF Technology
We have all doodled an idea or a bit of important information on a napkin at one point or another, but designer Avery Holleman takes it a step further with the Napkin PC. The device is intended to help creative groups collaborate on designs more effectively. Here's how it works: data is sent to the multi-touch e-paper "napkin" interface via the pen using short range radio frequency (RF). The pen and the napkin also communicate with the base station PC via long-rage RF. More after the break.
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Writeable, Color e-paper ReKindles Our Interest
Fuji Xerox has just demonstrated what may be the Holy Grail of e-paper—probably not the "E-Ink" technology found inside the Amazon Kindle and Sony Reader, but something similar—a prototype display that a user and write on. Three layers of polymer-dispersed liquid crystals are used (red, green and blue), meaning the display has a gel-like base.
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Fujitsu Flepia e-Reader Displays 4,096 Colors
Keep ignoring e-paper and e-readers, but as we see more color displays it will slowly take over the world. And Fujitsu just showed off some of their sweet new color e-reader prototypes. These readers feature 8" or 12" displays, boast 4,096-colors and XGA 768 x 1024 resolution...all on top of touch screen capability. The only downside is that you have to wait 10 seconds for images to draw. The battery is lithium polymer and gets up to 50 hours of runtime (though, to be fair, that spec is from an optional 8-color spec). Content is stored on an SD card and the unit features a USB port.
Oh, and there are speakers, too. With all this functionality and a waistline of just 12mm, we think we're in love. [gizmag via gizwatch]
cellphones
Update: E-Paper Phone from DoCoMo Has Ever-Changing Keys
Remember that "e-ink" phone we showed you yesterday? We just got the details and better pics. It's a DoCoMo prototype hard-keypad phone that actually uses e-paper from SiPix, not e-ink, to change the meaning of the keys. More »
e-paper still coming soon
LG.Philips LCD Teases World With A4 Color Electronic Paper
LG.Philips LCD keeps teasing the world with dream display products that will not reach the mass market until sometime in the next decade. More »
announcements
LG Phillips E-book: Flexible Means Flexibility
LG Phillips just announced their 14.1-inch WXGA flexible E-book at IMID 2006 (International Meeting on Information Display). More »
gadgets
Bridgestone E-Paper
Bridgestone doesn't just make tires that explode. They also make e-paper that looks absolutely killer. It has a Fresnel surface that lets it bend and twist and it's only two colors right now, but it looks to be the thinnest solution yet. More »
portable media
Fold-Up DVD Player Concept
Here's a techno-concept that's more like real origami than those overblown PDAs we've been
laptops
iRex Announces Its First ePaper Device: The Iliad ER 0100
We've known that iRex Technologies, a spinoff of Philips, would be releasing a nice ePaper device sometime in 2006. The company has finally revealed details of its first product, the ER 0100 (codenamed Iliad), a 8.1-inch ePaper reader with 1024 x 768 resolution and 160dpi fidelity. That's just a hair under the Sony Librié's 170dpi, but with greater resolution. More »
gadgets
Big Bendy Clock
Watch company Citizen announced the development of an e-paper-like technology for use as a clock. "Yawn", I hear you say — but wait, Citizen's e-paper is really BIG. Measuring 4.2 feet x 1.7 feet, Citizen's giant, bendable timepiece can reportedly run for a whole year on two regular button batteries. That's all very well, but I'm skeptical about the real-world uses a bendable clock might have. Given the way digits appear on a digital clock like this, asking a friend what the time is when this thing is half bent around a corner would elicit a response such as "well, it's either 1:45, 7:45, 8:45 or 9:45." Which might be a lot less useful than, say, looking at my watch. More »
peripherals
NEC's Flexible Battery
NEC announced an exciting foray into the world of bendy things today, with the revelation of their development of a 0.3mm thick flexible battery technology, that can also (allegedly) recharge in about 30 seconds. More »
portable media
E-Paper Display In Tokyo Station
A new display set up at Tokyo station makes interesting use of e-paper. Six A4 sheets of e-paper are on display for commuters in a snazzy transparent blue housing — allowing them to see how thin the e-paper is. The sheets of e-paper are being fed with the latest news stories via a wireless Internet connection and are updated with new content every five minutes. Rather cool, although to the casual observer (read: soulless, speed-walking salaryman zombie that make up most of Tokyo station's commuters) it will simply look like someone has gone to extraordinary lengths to frame today's weather report. More »
wristwatches
E-Paper Bendie Watch From Seiko
Seiko is going ultra-tech with this awesomely rad new watch made from e-paper. If you want one, though, you'd better show up with a baseball bat, crowbar, or something to wield off
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