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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Sony's no stranger to the odd e-ink device, but its latest prototype creation isn't targeted at the bookworm, it's intended to educate.
There are few things in this world quite as frustrating as a web browser on an E Ink device, and the PRS-T2 does little to change that.
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Given that this is an extremely early prototype, the E Ink device had a lot of bugs when we played with it: force closes, reboots and slow response are among the things we noticed.
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When I came up in college, e-ink had nine pixels on a device the size of a piece of paper.
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The cap of this pen doubles as a stylus tip, giving users the option to write with ink on paper in the iNotebook device and then quickly switch over to writing with a stylus in the app.
BioMedicines of Emeryville, Calif. is testing its Omega interferon with a Duros pump, a titanium device that looks like the ink tube of a Bic pen.
Kobo boasts that the Aura HD's screen is the highest-resolution e-ink display on the market, adding that the device's Freescale processor also makes it the fastest at turning pages.
The only confirmed Pixel Qi device at the show is the impressive Notion Ink Adam tablet.
And Entourage Systems features a two-screen device, one with color LCD and one with electronic ink.
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.
Once a device was installed, the manufacturer reaped the rewards for years as customers kept buying pricy ink and toner.
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Look, the new Sony Reader PRS-505 isn't perfect -- it's only the first device among the second generation (ok, technically third generation) of e-ink based eBook readers.
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The device seen above and in the first gallery below is one of just five prototypes of the E-ink reference phone in existence.
ENGADGET: E Ink reference phone and flexible display hands-ons (video)
This 6-inch e-reader touts a bodacious 1024 x 768 resolution, which contributes to an even better contrast ratio than on Amazon's E Ink slate, while software optimizations between now and release are expected to make the Story HD the fastest-refreshing device of its kind.
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