The e-paper slate is quite a lot bigger than most tablets, let alone e-readers, sporting a 13.3-inch screen (1, 200 x 1, 600) to match the standard A4 size of normal, boring paper.
While it struggled, rival companies--and some bigger players--started dabbling with e-paper and display technology.
But Plastic Logic's and iRex's devices push e-paper development beyond simply reading letter-sized PDFs, says Wilcox.
It looks brilliant in direct sunlight and reads like an e-paper display, but refreshes much faster.
The Pebble team calls its watch's display an e-paper display, in order to highlight its readability in direct sunlight.
The secret to Pebble's weeklong battery life and daylight readability is a technology similar to what's penetrated the lives of bookworms young and old: an e-paper display.
It's also secured a partnership with E Ink to use the latest in ruggedized e-paper technology and is hoping to raise enough funds to make Popslate a reality.
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"For example, we don't intend to compete with Korea on graphene screens, " he said, a reference to Samsung's determined effort to lead the market in flexible electronic screens and e-paper.
Still, that is cold comfort for the backers of products such as the iCache Geode, a strange and ambitious iPhone contraption combining NFC and e-paper with a reprogrammable credit card that was floated last April.
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Positioned to the right of the e-paper panel: a top button scrolls up, a smaller center button makes selections and the control on the bottom scrolls down -- through messages, menus or tracks while controlling music playback.
How frustrating it must be to know of important breakthroughs the long history of e-paper is an excellent example that cannot find their way into our everyday lives because our collective imagination is lacking or slow.
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The Korean manufacturer describes OLED screens as one of its "new growth engines, " alongside e-paper and solar cells, so even if we may consider development slow, it's looking increasingly likely that OLED TVs will eventually make their way into the mainstream.
It appears that the Texas Instruments controller chosen for the e-paper watch does not support the wireless protocol's low energy profile, something Pebble lists as one of the specs on its site (we've reached out to the company for clarification on this matter).
Besides Pixel Qi, Qualcomm, Fujitsu, and Philips are trotting out their Mirasol (with a rumored Kindle destination), FLEPia, and Liquavista display demos, respectively, while LG Display is demonstrating its Metal-Foil e-Paper display for the first time on the Skiff Reader.
The Skiff Reader, on the other hand, is being pitched as a consumer device with a compelling value proposition for publishers ( by publishers) and content owners that will ultimately deliver multimedia on a wide range of devices and display types hooked into the Skiff Store -- just not the flagship Skiff Reader with traditional e-paper display.
One company is already offering to help its corporate customers move from e-tickets to paper tickets.
We did this by offering a new comfort and demonstrating how the competition between e-readers and paper books is changing our lives.
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Although he uses a computer, he usually reads his e-mail on paper.
Still, contractors look far nimbler at solving myriad problems than civil servants, who are still hampered, for example, by rules ordering that all official communication be done on paper (e-mails will not do).
The paper-like E Ink display features crisp, clear text that's great for reading anywhere, even in bright sunlight.
And the savings in late-payment penalties could be valuable, too, for those better at dealing with e-mail than with paper bills.
There will always be a place for books that are mostly just words and are well-rendered on paper or an e-ink device.
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The suit alleges that AIG employees prevented some Starr employees from accessing their offices and electronic and paper files and e-mail, and monitored their e-mails.
If you hold an e-ticket and your flight is delayed or canceled, you must redeem the e-ticket for a paper ticket to switch to another carrier.
Of course, Gates used the keynote to announce plans of a new technological breakthrough - a font enhancement called ClearType that makes text on an LCD look like text on paper to improve e-books.
The same goes for Plastic Logic, which has developed a high-end e-reader meant to replace paper.
On the DR1000's 10.2-inch diagonal screen, with slightly brighter whites and darker blacks than the last generation of E-Ink devices, PDFs not only scale to the right dimensions, but their text and graphics appear crisper and more paper-like than E-Ink has ever looked before.
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