Sony PRS-700 E-reader Review

Last October Sony released the next generation of its e-reader to the world: the brand spanking new Sony PRS-700. This e-reader comes jam packed with some great technology that makes it leaps and bounds above the PRS-505, the Kindle and almost every other mid priced e-reader on the market. Even though there are improvements...

The Kindle is Burning Brightly

It looks like the Kindle really might be the iPod for the book industry. Last October Oprah gave the e-reader a huge push from her book club, ensuring that it would be almost completely sold out during the Holiday Season.  In the wake of the Oprah aftermath we’re still finding it hard to get a Kindle, with six to eight...

NEC Demonstrates Greyscale E-paper

Recently, NEC LCD, one of the world’s leading providers of high-quality, innovative, active-matrix liquid crystal displays, demonstrated new electronic paper (e-paper) displays at the Flat Panel Display (FPD) International exhibition in Japan. The screens were developed by its NEC LCD Technologies subsidiary and are the...

Concept Design: E-ink Tattoo

As controversial as this sounds, the future of technology will be biological, and body modification will play a huge part in how we use our computers, cell phones and even PDA’s in the next ten to twenty years.  Organic technology is considered the brave new world for the next generation, drastically changing our relationship...

E Ink’s New AM 300 Developer’s Kit. HOT!

The newly released AM 300 Developer’s Kit from E Ink Corporation boasts some amazing new features! It has the ability to show much faster animations as well as 16 bit grayscale image rendering and pen input. It’s really exciting to see E Ink corporation demonstrate the animation abilities. E-book readers will now have the...

Lexar JumpDrive Secure II Plus

For the most part USB memory keys are a dime a dozen. Fortunately, Lexar has differentiated itself by implementing E Ink technology onto its latest USB drive. E Ink is used for its capacity meter, which  allows you to know roughly how much space is available on the drive without actually plugging it into a computer. The meter...

Seiko Spectrum Bracelet

Seiko unveiled these incredible watch bracelets to show off the power of what E Ink will provide to watches in the near future. A female and male version was produced. The watches are just 6.9mm thick, and weigh just shy of 3 ounces. The demand for the watch resulted in a limited production of about 1000 priced at a incredible...

E-paper Advertising: A New Era has Begun

Esquire magazine’s digital E Ink cover heralded a new era in the field of print advertising. Pepped up with moving images, high contrast, and easy readability, the technology certainly is an eye-catcher. E-paper will play a very important role in the future of print media. The latest Esquire experiment is a step in the right...

Concept Design: E-paper Phone by Anthony Reed

This is a beautiful e-paper concept phone design by industrial designer Anthony Reed. This guy is the same designer behind Microsoft’s Zune player and wireless keyboards. I love how the designer has taken the simplistic black&white characteristic of typical e-paper technology and implemented the theme throughout the...