Japanese electronics company Sharp has been offering a line of “electronic notebooks” for the past few years, with each model featuring a black and white display, a digital pen for writing or drawing, and a promise of battery life measured in days not hours. The latest version is called the WG-PN1, and it’s set to […]
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Onyx Boox Viking is a modular eReader concept device
A growing number of eReaders feature touchscreen displays, allowing you to tap the left or right side of the screen to flip through pages in an eBook. But most lack a feature that used to be common: physical buttons that you can press instead. So the folks behind the Onyx Boox line of eReaders designed […]
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Shady Pebble smartwatch clone hits Indiegogo (Updated)
Before the Apple, Samsung, and Google got into the smartwatch game, there was Pebble. The startup made affordable watches with electronic paper displays, the ability to display smartphone notifications, and an app store that was filled with third-party apps. Activity tracker company Fitbit acquired Pebble a few years ago and used some of the company’s […]
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Nemeio is a customizable keyboard with ePaper keys
Electronic paper is common in eReaders, and it occasionally shows up in digital signage. But every now and then we see them show up in other product categories, like watches or keyboard. French company LDLC is showing off a new ePaper keyboard called Nemeio at the Consumer Electronics Show this week. Since there’s a display […]
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E Ink unveils JustWrite tech for writing on digital paper
E Ink is probably best known for making the black and white screens found in eReaders like the Amazon Kindle. But the company also makes color screens for digital signage (and some tablets/eBook devices), and its black and white screens sometimes show up in surprising places. So what’s next from E Ink? A new technology that […]
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Onyx makes a color eReader for Chinese schools
The Amazon Kindle and most other eReaders use black and white E Ink displays. A while back Amazon acquired a company called Liquavista that was working on color electronic paper display technology, but it looks like the company recently pulled the plug on Liquavista. But that doesn’t mean device makers have given up on color […]
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Kyocera KY-O1L is a phone with a 2.8 inch ePaper display (for Japan)
A handful of phone makers have released dual-screen devices with color screens on one side and monochrome E Ink displays on the other. Kyocera’s latest phone goes all in on the black and white screen. The KY-O1L is a tiny phone with a 2.8 inch, 480 x 600 pixel electronic paper display. The whole phone measures […]
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Pervasive Displays launches 12.2 inch color ePaper display… but probably not for eReaders or tablets
3 Comments on Pervasive Displays launches 12.2 inch color ePaper display… but probably not for eReaders or tabletsA small, but vocal, group of folks have been clamoring for color eReaders for years, but it doesn’t look like it’s going to happen anytime soon. Sure, Amazon and a few other companies continue to crank out both entry-level eReaders and high-end models with premium specs, but they all tend to have grayscale displays. But […]
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Onyx Boox Max 2 and Boox Note: Hands on with big screen E Ink slates
Onyx is one of only a handful of companies making devices with E Ink screens larger than 7 inches, and the company is bringing two new models to market next month. The Onyx Boox Note Pro features a 10.3 inch E Ink display, a quad-core processor, and a pressure-sensitive digital pen, while the Onyx Boox […]
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E Ink architecture: San Diego airport installs 2,000 Prism screens outdoors
E Ink’s display technology is often found in eReaders and sometimes used in digital signage and other items, like smartphones and laptops. But a few years ago the company introduced a new large format solution called Prism that was designed for architecture and design projects. Now E Ink has announced that the San Diego International […]