Apple’s iPad is No Match for E-Paper

It was touted as the Kindle Killer (of course, what isn’t these days?), the death of publishing, the savior of publishing, and the latest and greatest in technogadgetry. The iPad. People have been gossiping and letting the rumors fly as to what this could possibly be, and how it could be used as an e-reader. Turns out, the iPad...

Can E Ink Hold Up to Other Upcoming E-Paper Technologies?

The best known e-paper devices are without a doubt those based on E Ink’s display technology. Devices such as the Sony, Amazon and iRex readers all use this technology to great affect, and have sold tons of devices with it. But, just because they’ve made a lot of money doesn’t necessarily mean it will stand the test...

LG Debuts Flexible E-Paper

Hot on the trail of their CES 2010 announcement to do e-paper, LG shows off a prototype of their flexible e-paper display. Their flexible display is the largest (and perhaps most flexible and bendable) on the market, weighing in at a long 19″ and paper thin. It’s about the size of A3 paper, and it uses metal foil layered...

Spotlight on Mirasol: Qualcomm’s Full Color E-Paper

The future for e-paper is away from e-readers. It’s more for multi-purpose devices, for outdoor advertisement, for netbooks and all sorts of new and interesting technology. Right now e-readers are the hot item, but in the future, once books have finally moved on from analogue to digital, e-paper will need to expand and adapt to...

AUO Notes Flexibility/Manufacturing Process is Key for E-paper

When AUO introduced its flexible e-paper, EpaperCentral had the opportunity to discuss the introduction with C.T. (Chun-Ting) Liu, Corporate Senior Vice President and the General Manger of Consumer Product Display Business Group of AUO. Taiwan’s largest manufacturer of thin film transistor liquid display panels, AUO Optronics Corporation...

CES 2010: The Year of E-paper based E-Readers

CES 2010 was a huge splash this year, with the a ton of new e-paper devices being announced. The only devices to gain more hype than those powered by e-paper were tablet computers, which also seemed to be just about as abundant. We’re going to take a moment here, and talk about some of the bigger e-paper products shown off. A...

Newspapers and Magazines: E-paper or Bust in 2010

Newspapers and magazines have been dying slowly since the invention of the internet, and each day they struggle to regain their glory days of a few years past. Now it seems they’ve found their saviors in the land of e-paper, with different forms of e-reader technology allowing them to get new subscribers electronically. Can this...

Touchco to Revolutionize E-paper Interfaces

E-paper devices have been plagued with bad usability since the start. The Kindle, while serviceable, feels very retro in its use of clunky buttons. Other manufacturers have tried to modernize usability to mixed results, each one implementing touch-screen interfaces in their own ways, and each one fundamentally flawed. The Sont PRS-707...