once upon a time
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Hardware that works in allowing portability of texts. All about ebooks. Amazon's Kindle is all the rage because of ability to begin reading almost instantly by downloading new publications often at prices much lower than even a paperback. But on the horizon in 2010 is flexible screen hardware from Polymer Vision - the Readius, and from Plastic Logic.TRANSCRIPT
Once upon a time came e-books: they were glass, small, and fragile…
• First product to market:
6″ Sony LIBRIé, Japan, April ‘04
600 pixel × 800 pixel display resolution.
170 dots per inch.
300 grams (10.6 oz) with case and batteries (190 grams / 6.7 oz without).
126 millimeters (5 in) by 190 millimeters (7.5 in) by 13 millimeters (0.5 in).
• 6″ Sony Reader CES‘06 US launch, Q4 ‘06
Distribution deal with Borders and access to published online eBooks through ‗Sony Connect‘ resolves DRM issues
4 levels grayscale; 160 DPI 800 MHz Celeron class processor or better
Initially priced at $399, Now $299.
• 6″ Hanlin eReaderV3
Chinese and Western market versions.
launched in Q1 ‘06. Coming soon V9, EOY ‘07.
10‖ Flexible display. 825×1200, 4 levels grayscale.
Sumsung® Arm 9 200Mhz.
• 8.1″ iRex Technologies iLiad
Available B2B/Web Retail from Q3 ‘06. Includes stylus based, touch panel input.
.768×1024, 16 levels grayscale, 160 DPI. DRM offering Mobipocket Q2 ‘07.
Intel® 400MHz XScale™ processor. 256 MB RAM, 128 MB available for user, expandable via USB, MMC or CF cards.
• 6″ Bookeen CyBook Q4 ‘07
600×800, 4 levels, 160 DPI. First Western market
product to launch with E Ink® Vizplex.
Samsung® S3C2410 ARM920T 200MHz. Mobipocket DRM.
64 MB, expandable via SD card.
Until Now!
Wearable displays using E Ink® flexible display technology are on the horizon.
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Polymer Vision is in agreement with Telecom Italia to offer Readius, a rollout flexible display.
• Visualization of a flexible
electronic reader product Click to enlarge
The British company, Plastic Logic Limited has completed a new production site for a total of 96 million euro near Dresden, Germany. From 2008, a new generation of flexible displays, known as ―electronic paper displays‖ (e-paper displays) will be produced at the factory, a global first.
• Conceptual
first integrated conformal
display system
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flexible display
Half opened
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• A rollout
Unique today and for as far as one can peerinto the horizon, there is only one e-bookwith pen tablet capabilities.
10.2 Inch (diagonal) electronic paper display 1024 x 1280 pixel resolution at 160 pixels per inch 16-level grey scale
Available to purchase today at 699 EUR (or $859 USD)
Lewis D. Gudmundsen, Good E-books, llc Once upon a time came e-books: they were glass, small and fragile… UNTIL NOW!
The 14.1-inch flexible color E-paper uses electronic ink from E-Ink Corp. to produce a maximum of 4,096 colors. It can be viewed from a full 180 degrees, so that images always appear crisp, even when the display is bent.
Plastic Logic reader product, available 1st Quarter 2010.