The Nook may have been the to-buy gift for book fanatics this holiday season, but it looks like it may have had far more buzz than bite. The once touted Kindle-killer has gotten some lukewarm reviews, and it turns out it’s much-touted dual LCD screen is more of a hindrance than a boon. It turns out that even though the Nook has...

IBM is bringing e-paper to the retail shelves as part of their Smarter Planet strategy. This strategy is meant to create a more earth friendly and green way of operating in our current world, without decreasing any of the current luxuries we have. E Ink is being used as part of their greener retail strategy, and they are using it...

CES 2010 has come with a slew of surprises for the e-paper fans out there, and one of the biggest is Notion Ink’s brand spanking new tablet. It’s to be the first to use Pixel Qi’s revolutionary hybrid display, that can switch between e-paper viewing (without glare and in full sunlight), low-watt hi-def display and...

The e-reader marketplace is becoming overly saturated as manufacturers rush to produce a gadget that not everyone’s got yet. Some potential purchasers are said to be put off from making the leap from hardback to e-reader due to the electronic version not offering such a tactile experience. This new concept design, designed by Nadeem...

Philips has been working on a new, full color e-paper technology that uses only ambient light, and gives the effect of paints on paper. This new technology will not be used as you might think–it won’t be found in the next Kindle, Nook or e-reader.  It won’t be used to create newspapers or e-readers or magazines, not...

Three major Taiwanese manufacturers plan on entering the color e-paper market in 2010. Prime View International, Delta Electronics, and AU Optronics made this joint announcement during the symposium on Flexible Display and Electronics Technology in Taiwan earlier this week. The announcement came as no surprise to anyone–...

Magazines and newspapers are slowly dying.  Sure, traditional print is seeing drops in sales all across the board, and there is a recession going on, but magazines and newspapers have been hit the worst.  In a scramble to inject new life into this once thriving market, we’ve heard lots of different proposals from lots of different...

Earlier this year we gave a broad prediction that 2009 would end up being the year of the e-book, and that this year would be the year when e-readers took their hold and found mass market appeal. We made some broad speculations, based on the trends still booming from the new release of the Kindle 2 and it’s endorsement by Oprah. Now...