Once upon a time came e-books: they were glass, small, and fragile… •
First product to market: 6″ Sony
LIBRIé,
Japan, April ‘04
600 pixel × 800 pixel display resolution. 170 dots per inch. 300 grams (10.6 oz) with case and batteries (190 grams / 6.7 oz without). 126 millimeters (5 in) by 190 millimeters (7.5 in) by 13 millimeters (0.5 in).
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6″ Sony
Reader
CES‘06 US launch, Q4 ‘06 Distribution deal with Borders and access to published online eBooks through ‗Sony Connect‘ resolves DRM issues 4 levels grayscale; 160 DPI 800 MHz Celeron class processor or better Initially priced at $399, Now $299.
• 6″ Hanlin eReaderV3
• 8.1″ iRex Technologies iLiad
• 6″ Bookeen CyBook Q4 ‘07
Chinese and Western market versions. launched in Q1 ‘06. Coming soon V9, EOY ‘07.
Available B2B/Web Retail from Q3 ‘06. Includes stylus based, touch panel input. 768×1024, 16 levels grayscale, 160 DPI. DRM offering Mobipocket Q2 ‘07.
600×800, 4 levels, 160 DPI. First Western market product to launch with E Ink® Vizplex.
10‖ Flexible display.
825×1200, 4 levels grayscale. Sumsung® Arm 9 200Mhz.
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Intel® 400MHz XScale™ processor. 256 MB RAM, 128 MB available for user, expandable via USB, MMC or CF cards.
Samsung® S3C2410 ARM920T 200MHz. Mobipocket DRM. 64 MB, expandable via SD card.
Until Now! • Conceptual first integrated conformal display system
Wearable displays using E Ink® flexible display technology are on the horizon.
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Polymer Vision is in agreement with Telecom Italia to offer Readius, a rollout flexible display.
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• A rollout
flexible display
• Visualization of a flexible electronic reader product Click to enlarge
The British company, Plastic Logic Limited has completed a new production site for a total of 96 million euro near Dresden, Germany. From 2008, a new generation of flexible displays, known as ―electronic paper displays‖ (e-paper displays) will be produced at the factory, a global first.
Unique today and for as far as one can peer into the horizon, there is only one e-book with pen tablet capabilities.
10.2 Inch (diagonal) electronic paper display 1024 x 1280 pixel resolution at 160 pixels per inch 16-level grey scale
Available to purchase today at 699 EUR (or $859 USD)
Lewis D. Gudmundsen, Good E-books, llc Once upon a time came e-books: they were glass, small and fragile‌ UNTIL NOW!
Plastic Logic reader product, available 1st Quarter 2010.
The 14.1-inch flexible color E-paper uses electronic ink from E-Ink Corp. to produce a maximum of 4,096 colors. It can be viewed from a full 180 degrees, so that images always appear crisp, even when the display is bent.