The next generation of Sony’s flagship e-reader adds a ton of requested features, pushing it light years beyond the PRS-505 model. These new features include touch screen support for a more intuitive interface and a backlight for low-light or nighttime reading. It’s still without wireless support, so you need to connect to...

The breakthroughs in e-paper technology continue to come. First was a flexible device; now a touch screen display has been demonstrated at the Arizona State University Flexible Display Center (FDC). The device has been developed by FDC in collaboration with its military and industry partners and features the first flexible touch screen...

Color is here. Just a few months after completing tests in a Japanese cafe, Fujitsu has announced plans to release the world’s first color e-reader on April 20. The announcement bites into the heels of the Kindle 2 and gobbles some buzz from the Plastic Logic Reader, but FLEPia’s high price tag and lagging page turns might...

Three or four years ago and the e-book was a joke. It was something sought after by hard core nerds or a few fans trying to get the next Harry Potter book for free. Nobody in the publishing industry thought that electronic text was going to make it big, let alone consider it the savior for the dying publishing industry. A lot has changed...

AUO has taken a major stake in the electronic paper display market by becoming a major shareholder (over 30%) in SiPix Imaging. Taiwan’s largest manufacturer of thin film transistor liquid display panels, AUO Optronics Corporation (AUO) also ranks in the top three TFT-LCD manufacturers in the world. The company was formed in September...

The critical state of the declining newspaper industry is well-known and well-documented. The continuing expansion of alternative media has taken both revenue and readership from conventional printed newspapers for some time now. Scrambling to staunch the bleeding, newspaper publishers have explored various means to secure incremental...

Recently, Plextronics announced the opening of its first manufacturing development line (D-line) to begin manufacturing printed solar cells. What does this have to do with e-paper? A lot actually…read on. High-Functionality Inks Headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA, Plextronics has developed Plexcore® polymers and inks, a key ingredient...

E-paper technology, along with the general printed electronics sector, is moving forward at an accelerating pace. More and more products are being commercialized, and more application areas are being penetrated. The question then arises: Where are the printers in printed electronics? It is increasingly obvious that printers do not seem...