Innovations in the electronic paper arena seem to be coming fast and furious these days. The latest news concerns researchers at the Novel Devices Lab at the University of Cincinnati, who have recently demonstrated a new display technology, termed “electrofluidic,”  that claims higher brightness than other technologies...

While the increased activity in the e-reader arena has captured recent headlines, that may soon change. Art Technology has just introduced a line of Phosphor watches featuring an electronic paper display face. Founded by Donald Brewer (previously VP of Technology at Fossil) and Danny So (founder/managing director of Fair Legend Electronics,...

Although electronic paper was first developed by Xerox at its Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), it is another company, E Ink Corp, that immediately comes to mind in any current discussion of electronic paper. In fact, E Ink has almost become synonymous with e-paper. Since its founding in 1997 introducing electrophoretic technology,...

All this week the internet was buzzing with the incoming announcement of a new Kindle. It didn’t take long for photos and details to leak out, and let us know that this Kindle would be larger in size and address some concerns with the Kindle 2. A lot of people called this an elegant power play by Amazon, letting them hit the large...

Thinner, lighter and faster than the first generation Kindle, the Kindle 2 debuted with a ton of new features. Broadband Wireless support is built in for browsing the internet or buying books within seconds from Amazon’s bookstore, and is available for free wherever Sprint’s 3G network has coverage. It has support for listening to...