The Kindle Paperwhite and Kobo Glo are among the first ebook readers to come with built - in frontlights in order to
make the E Ink screens readable in the dark and in areas with low lighting.
It might even be enough to
make E Ink tablets more of a viable possibility.
Sony's additional screen layers
make the E Ink less sharp.
I think B&N should
make an e Ink version of their Android App Store and optimize it so only great apps are available.
But I don't know what Hisense was thinking when
they made the E Ink side of the screen so glossy.
It's a great hack that
makes E Ink page turns finally completely tolerable.
Digitimes reports that PVI, who
makes the E Ink displays used in the Amazon Kindle and Sony's reader says that they are delaying the launch of a color E Ink display - till 2010 at least.
Boyue (previously known as Boeye)
makes E Ink readers, here showing their latest Rockchip based E Ink Android e-readers, also showing off a non-functioning mockup of their 10.3» Mobius flexible E Ink ultra light reader that might come next year if E Ink starts the mass production of the 10.3» Mobius display by that time.
With so much time and attention committed to
making the E Ink display useful, Yota's customizations to the regular Android experience are pretty much nonexistent.
Not exact matches
For example when we started
E Ink, the company that makes the electronic paper displays for Kindles and Nooks, the «ink» barely work
Ink, the company that
makes the electronic paper displays for Kindles and Nooks, the «
ink» barely work
ink» barely worked.
CB hasn't yet played with one of the new - generation Kobo eReaders, but they're the first device to market with the fast Freescale i.MX508 processor, and use Neonode's zForce infrared technology to
make their Pearl
E Ink screens touch - sensitive.
Plastic Logic developed a new OTFT - based flexible 42»
e-paper (
E Ink) display,
made from 16 10.7» flexible panels tiled together.
The big news about the Kindle Paperwhite is suggested by its name: It has a built - in light that, when adjusted to maximum brightness,
makes the Kindle's display look closer to white than to the tinted, newspaper gray typical of
E Ink's electrophoretic ink screens (including this one, when the light is of
Ink's electrophoretic
ink screens (including this one, when the light is of
ink screens (including this one, when the light is off).
Young says one company, Plastic Logic Ltd., is
making large flexible displays using
E Ink materials: «They can
make a 10 - to -12-in.
If you have a dedicated
e-reader, such as a Kindle or a Nook, you're using a technology called electrophoretic
ink, made by E Ink, to read your favorite boo
ink,
made by
E Ink, to read your favorite boo
Ink, to read your favorite books.
The
E Ink screen can be used for reading ebooks,
making calls, checking messages and social network feeds, displaying images and maps, weather updates, and even videos and games.
Note: For Kindle subscribers, I
made this handy URL that you can enter on the browser of a computer or other device faster than your
e Ink Kindle: bit.ly / eBookPoll.
«With
E Ink's battery - free, thin, lightweight and durable technology, brands could enhance their packaging without having to alter the shape and design of their packaging, truly
making this solution a first for the industry.»
The fact that it has higher reflectance (twice as much) than the ones on
E Ink makes me excited about it.
First, is CLEARink really going to
make a noticeable difference for reading over
E Ink?
E Ink, conscious that they'll have to
make serious advances in order to keep their position as head bistable display honcho, is
making screens that can be crumpled or attached to cloth.
Onyx is expected to release some 10 - inch models with plastic screens later this year, but hopefully
E Ink starts
making them for smaller screens as well.
The screen itself, built with
E Ink's Mobius display tech, has been upped from 1200 × 1600 to 1650 × 2200, which should
make text considerably clearer (206 DPI — pretty good).
E Ink Holdings, the company that
makes the screens for Amazon.com's Kindle, said it is dedicated to increasing capacity to meet the requirements of the market, after Amazon revealed that its US$ 189 Kindle had sold out.
Kobo has
made some quality devices Excellent front - light display Expandable storage Lightweight The 6 - inch
E Ink Pearl screen sports a higher - than - normal 1024 - by -768-pixel resolution, with 16 shades of gray The design is very fantastic!!
That being said, Nathan is totally right about the slow progress that
E Ink is
making.
Although we've seen anecdotes about paper books
making a comeback, we can imagine that
E Ink may survive as an alternative to shine - in - your - face LCD devices such as tablets and phones, which are said to disrupt circadian rhythms at bedtime.
Bezos also revealed that Amazon sold «millions» of third - generation Kindle
e-reader devices, which have the paper - like
E Ink Pearl display,
making it the best - selling product in Amazon's history.
There's also scores of shifty little companies in Asia and Eastern Europe that
make slabs with
E Ink displays which run Android — you can read almost anything on them.
And they're set to get even better if
E Ink's latest screens
make it into a few products, as I hope they do.
E Ink of Boston announced this week that it has succeeded in
making electronic paper work in full colour.
The Aura H2O's 6.8 - inch Carta
E Ink display is nearly an inch bigger than any Kindle, and it does
make for a much roomier reading experience.
Combined with a new Pearl display from
E Ink, it
made for a major jump in contrast.
E Ink Holdings hasn't specified why the new Prism material isn't being used on mobile devices just yet, but it might have something to do with extra hardware needed to facilitate the color - changing trick that could
make it difficult to integrate into smaller devices.
This is a unique hybrid device that is no longer being
made with an
E Ink screen on one side and an LCD screen on the other.
While Internet companies are scanning libraries of books and
making them available online,
E Ink Corp., which -LSB-...]
The
E Ink Kindles have 4:3 ratio screens and the Fire HD 6 is 16:10, which
makes it taller and narrower.
Having dual touch screens and
e -
Ink / LCD
make a better experience in reading university textbooks, and having the option to few video, audio and see colored pictures.
E Ink Prism's paint - like appearance, color palette, wide - ranging compatibility with materials (
e.g., decorative panels, glass, marker boards and laminates) and shapes
make it highly suitable for many architectural applications.
I think business sector require special needs like reading documents using a pen to add handwritten comments send by email or share via cloud... and
making it reasonable price will get
e ink back to head as a leading standard and technology... just imagine one of the giant software companies acquired
e ink what they should do to business... books and stories readers are a very small part of the stake
E Ink has slowly been refining Prism and have
made a breakthrough, there are now 7 new colors.
They also had a bike with
e-
ink gauges and a big clock
made of
e Ink.
Exceptional image clarity will provide a special comfort of reading and the ability of
E Ink screens to use only reflected light will
make reading perfectly safe for eyes.
I
made it clear to
e Ink and Sony that this device is the most asked for on this website, ever.
For people who love to read,
E Ink's paper - like readability, no - glare screen and long battery life have
made it a favorite and nearly perfect device choice, with one exception: reading in bed or other low - light environments.
e Ink continues to
make most of their money from royalties, based on the sales performance of mainstream
e-readers.
If they do it right, I think Google should get involved, this could
make it a really big new market for the
E Ink based devices with touch for productive collaboration in education and enterprise.
E Ink has Triton 1 and Triton 2, and Ectaco
made a few products called the Jetbook Color, Pocketbook did a color
e-reader too.
Something in the area of 8 inches with a colour
e ink screen, with the humble specs of a classic kindle (even non-touch like the one I have) would suffice to be honest, but for christ sake if the option to show the full colour spectrum is / has been available for a long time now,
make use of it!
Designed to be loved by the public and easy to install for cities and developers, the Soofa Sign is
made up of a color 32 - inch
E Ink electronic paper display and is powered by Visionect's advanced signage technology, which allows the
e-paper screen to use up as little energy as possible and seamlessly update the sign with real - time content.