Most Advanced Electronic Ink Display: Kindle's high-contrast electronic ink display delivers clear, crisp text and images.
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However, it would be a waist of electronic ink to discuss what the Supercommittee might recommend.
And Entourage Systems features a two-screen device, one with color LCD and one with electronic ink.
One thing's for sure -- monochrome electronic ink displays are not the future of e-readers.
If electronic ink is your thing then CES 2010 is the place to be.
The DX, by contrast, has black-and-white electronic ink display built for easy readability.
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When Amazon's Kindle arrived last November, some techie bookworms marveled at its innovative electronic ink screen and speedy wireless book downloads.
Electrophoretic displays work in a different way, using a form of electronic ink that has been under development since the 1970s.
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Kindle and Kindle Touch offer the most advanced electronic ink display which reads like real paper with no glare, even in bright sunlight.
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Technologies such as electronic ink, 3D controllers, flexible displays, voice recognition and solid-state mass storage are rapidly approaching mass market commercialization price points.
The quarter-inch thick device, built by the publisher Hearst, features electronic ink mounted on a flexible microfoil and an 11.5-inch screen, making it the biggest, thinnest e-reader yet.
Kindle is the revolutionary portable reader that wirelessly downloads books, magazines, newspapers and personal documents to a crisp, high-resolution 6-inch electronic ink display that looks and reads like real paper.
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Otherwise, the CES show floor is absolutely littered with electronic ink also-rans, hybrids, and new screen technologies looking to knock-off the incumbent Kindle, underlying E Ink technology, and Amazon juggernaut.
The new latest generation Kindle is the lightest, most compact Kindle ever and features the same 6-inch, most advanced electronic ink display that reads like real paper even in bright sunlight.
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The biggest (literally) and most impressive electronic ink devices at the show are easily the 8.5 x 11-inch 10.5-inch Plastic Logic Que proReader and 11.5-inch (displays measured diagonally) Skiff Reader.
Bookeen's Cybook Opus is now definitely the best eBook Reader of its kind: thanks to the very latest E-Ink electronic ink technology, its screen offers the most comfortable reading experience, comparable to paper.
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Weighing just 5.98 ounces, Kindle is small and light enough to fit easily in a pocket and take everywhere, and still features the same 6-inch electronic ink display that reads like real paper.
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Weighing just 170 grams, Kindle is small and light enough to fit easily in a pocket and take everywhere, and still features the same 6-inch electronic ink display that reads like real paper.
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And because the company uses capsules rather than beads, it can mix them with a binding agent and print its electronic ink on to almost any surface, just as though it were real ink.
That device will use the color LCD touch screen that made the iPhone a success, chewing far more energy than electronic ink but giving users a more versatile experience than mere reading, including Web browsing and video.
Kindle, Kindle 3G, Kindle with Special Offers, Kindle 3G with Special Offers and Kindle DX are the revolutionary portable readers that wirelessly download books, magazines, newspapers, blogs and personal documents to a crisp, high-resolution electronic ink display that looks and reads like real paper.
We kept everything readers love about Kindle-the electronic ink display that reads like real paper, with no glare, even in bright daylight, the convenience of downloading books in less than 60 seconds and Kindle's ability to disappear in your hands so you can get lost in the author's words-and made it lighter, smaller, faster, and more affordable than ever.
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It took so long for electronic ink screens to finally hit the market we feel a bit silly getting impatient for the next-generation, but the Kindle has been on the market for a year and a half now, Sony Reader models for twice that long, and still we're dealing with the same crummy 7:1 contrast ratio, 16 shade grayscale, and .74 second refresh rate.
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Sony was interested in using E Ink screens in an electronic reader.
This purchase shows E Ink's strong commitment to electronic paper displays.
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Its electronic readers, which rely on e-ink, not so much.
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The road to electronic publishing is littered with abandoned attempts to avoid paper and ink.
"In the recent past, we enabled an entire eReader market with our electronic paper, " said Felix Ho, Vice Chairman of E Ink Holdings.
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In April 2004 E Ink's technology was approved for mass production of Sony's electronic books.
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