Hanvon made a slew of startling announcements at the Frankfurt Book Fair this year, wowing the book buying public and German Parliament at the same time. In fact, Hanvon made such a great demonstration of its multilingual e-readers that the German Government has decided to buy the devices in bulk for its Members of Parliament. Nobody...

While many electronic paper developers are working to develop a new low-power technology and improve its capability to achieve both color and video, Pixel Qi has taken a unique approach and reversed the process to attain its goal. The company has started with traditional liquid crystal display technology, which already provides...

Designer Gordon Yeh has come up with a concept electronic paper clipboard for coaching on the sidelines. Called the Electronic Paper Coaching Playboard, this clipboard can be used for drawing plays, sketching out strategies, even examining images and criticizing them with electronic writing straight on top. If you’ve ever...

When walking the supermarket aisles, 70-80% of consumer choices are made almost instantaneously because of the shelf appeal of the product package. Consequently, it has become increasingly important to manufacturers to capture consumer attention in the retail store. A store may carry thousands of items; however, the human brain’s...

Recently, it seems that as interest and sales in e-paper applications, most notably e-readers increases, so too has the number of new technologies that seek to offer the best solution to current challenges. Electrophoretic displays, specifically those using the technology developed by E Ink have dominated the market. However,...

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...

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...

Round 2 for Color E-readers Earlier this April Bridgestone showed off its new jaw dropping e-paper display at a Tokyo Tradeshow. Unlike other e-paper devices like the Kindle and Sony’s 505/700, the Bridgestone model does not use E Ink’s display. Instead, it uses another electrophoretic technology built in-house...

Here is another interesting e-paper concept design. Frog Design has come up with a multi use identity card that can display your driver’s license, social security card, and passport. Made of lightweight aluminum and using an e-paper display, it’s durable and flexible, and can last a long time thanks to its bi-stable...

It looks like all of the hype around the second edition of the Kindle has really kick started the e-reader craze. Publishing companies, bookstores, and multibillion dollar news corporations are all announcing their own e-reader, all of them leveraging e-paper technology. Will this create a flood in the market with too many...

Timing is everything, especially with a new technology introduction. No matter how innovative the technology is, if the market is not ready, it does not take hold. E-paper was invented by Nick Sheridon at Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) in the 1970s. However, it is only recently that the technology has found...

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...

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...

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...