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...

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...

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 that could...

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 image....

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 turns might...