Ebook Readers: Directions in Enabling

Technology

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Where we are…

LCD Display

Lithium-Ion Battery

Rigid Circuit board

Resolution and contrast

Viewing conditions

Weight

Cost

Power consumption

Flexibility

Display Readability

Display type - reflective preferred

Resolution

Luminance and contrast

Kerning

Electronic Ink

Reflective

Using advanced print technology

Bistable

High-resolution

E Ink

Power consumption Ease of manufacture

Hybrid 2003

Flexible 2004-2005

RadioPaper & large format 2005

Bound volumes 2010

Colour E Ink

80 PPI

4096 colours

Commercially available 2004

Colour filter technology

Gyricon

Power consumption

Material Cost

Flexible now

Bound volumes 2005

Wireless 2004

Flexible Transistors

Manufacture

Circuits and memory 2003-2005

Display drivers by 2003

Print the whole device by 2006!

Printable Batteries

Available now, rechargeable by 2002

0.5mm thick

An A4 sized sheet produces 1.5V

Environmentally friendly

Advanced screen printing technique

True eBooks?

Understanding readers and all forms of reading will be the basis

of good design

Bound volumes commercially feasible in 3-7 years

What other forms might reading devices take?

Ebook Readers: Directions in Enabling

Technology

Coburn, Burrows, Loi & Wilkins @ Interactive Information

Institute