At first glance it’s hard to tell the Bookeen Cybook Odyssey apart from any other eBook reader with a touchscreen E Ink display. But the Odyssey has a faster processor than most eReaders and that lets the device refresh the screen much more quickly. The slo sceen refresh rate we usually associate with E Ink is at least partially due…

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The Ectacto JetBook is one of the first eBook readers with a color E Ink display. Basically it has a standard E Ink display with a filter on top which adds color without using much more energy than a grayscale E Ink screen. In other words, battery life is measured in weeks rather than hours. Colors aren’t all that vivid…

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The Sony PRS-T1 is an eBook reader with a 6 inch E Ink touchscreen display. It’s designed to run Sony’s Reader software for reading digital books — but the device’s firmware is based on Google Android and it turns out that the PRS-T1 can be hacked to run additional Android apps. One hacker has managed to add an app launcher,…

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At first glance the Ricoh eQill looks like just another eReader with an E Ink display. But it’s actually an enterprise tablet designed to fit into a paperless (or at least paper-less) office. The idea is that the eQuill connects to your server over WiFi or 3G and lets you read and sign documents without wasting any paper. It’s not a…

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Companies have been showing off prototype eBook readers with color E Ink displays for a couple of years, but so far no devices with color E Ink displays have actually gone on sale. Now it looks like we should see the first in December. That’s when Ectaco plans to launch the Jetbook Color eReader in the US. The device will…

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The new Barnes & Noble Simple Touch Reader isn’t the only 6 inch E Ink eBook reader with a built-in web browser. It turns out the recently released $129 Kobo Touch also has an unadvertised web browser. The web browsing experience on an E Ink display is never very good since you’re stuck looking at black and white pages with…

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High contrast, low power E Ink displays are great if you want to read eBooks. But the top E Ink devices with 6 inch displays from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, and other companies all have one thing in common: They won’t fit comfortably into a tight pocket. That could change if a company called Polymer Vision has its way….

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Barnes & Noble’s NOOK Color is one of the best selling tablets and eBook Readers around, but the company isn’t giving up on E Ink just yet. Today the company introduced a new NOOK eReader with a 6 inch E Ink touchscreen display. While the new NOOK has the same screen size as the latest Amazon Kindle, the device is substantially smaller,…

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Next month Kobo will begin selling the Kobo eReader Touch for $129.99. It’s a new eBook reader with an E Ink display, much like Kobo’s existing offering. The difference is the new model will have a touchscreen, letting you navigate through eBooks with touch navigation rather than a directional pad. At just under $130, the Kobo eReader Touch will be…

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Mirosol has been showing off its low power reflective sunlight readable color display technology for a couple of years, but so far no actual products using the screens have shipped. Now Engadget has the story on why that is. In a nutshell, Mirosol’s displays don’t require a backlight and don’t draw much more power than an E Ink screen, but…

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E Ink produces the black and white digital paper screens found in the Amazon Kindle and most other eBook readers. The company has also been developing color ePaper displays and other technologies for a while. But that’s not the only thing the company is working on. The Digital Reader has posted a series of videos showing flexible E Ink displays….

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Freescale Semiconductors recently announced plans to bring dual and quad-core ARM-based chips to market, but we won’t actually start seeing devices built around those chips until much later this year. In the meantime, the company is showing off a number of tablets and other computing devices that have been developed recently using the company’s low power, single core ARM Cortex-A8…

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