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Philips and E Ink demo e-paper prototype
News Start-up E Ink and Dutch firm Philips will showcase a working prototype of electronic paper at a trade show in the US this week The engineering samples have been developed using components likely to be in the shipping model, said the statement from...
[May 14, 2003, 8:52]
Intel invests in electronic ink firm
News E Ink announced on Tuesday that Intel has invested an undisclosed amount into the display company. E Ink develops and markets an electronic paper screen technology that uses less power and offers a better picture than current flat-display...
[March 23, 2005, 11:25]
Digital paper turns a new page
News Start-up E Ink Corp.announced on Tuesday a partnership with Lucent Technologies to combine E Ink's digital paper technology with Lucent's research into printable organic transistors. Together, Lucent and E Ink "have all the components to build a...
[October 13, 1999, 8:10]
Sony e-book to use electronic ink
News Consumer electronics giant Sony is using electronic ink in its new e-book, marking one of the first consumer applications of the next-generation display technology. Royal Philips Electronics, Sony and display start-up E Ink announced on Wednesday...
[March 25, 2004, 9:15]
Images: A look at Amazon's Kindle DX
News The e-ink display boasts a 1,200x824-pixel resolution (150 pixels per inch). As with the Kindle 2, the DX's e-ink screen delivers shades of grey, which means sharper images than the first-gen The Kindle DX is the third iteration of Amazon's e-reader.
[May 7, 2009, 13:21]
Flexible LCD unveiled by Samsung
News Philips and start-up E Ink are promoting a display in which black-and-white microcapsules embedded in a screen flip to create words. Unlike an LCD, E Ink's displays do not require a backlight and are therefore more energy-efficient.
[November 29, 2005, 8:50]
US Report: Would you curl up with an e-book?
News Yet, standards are not what is holding up adoption, said Russ Wilcox, vice president and general manager of E Ink Corp.of Cambridge, Mass. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology start-up believes it has the answer: Electronic ink.
[October 26, 1998, 10:43]
Bookeen Cybook Gen3 review
Reviews Amazon's Kindle, which is not yet available in the UK, is also an E-ink device. E-ink is a highly power-efficient display technology as it only draws power when the screen is refreshed. The Cybook Gen3 uses an E-ink display, as does the last e-book...
[February 28, 2008, 7:31]
Plastic transistors get rubber stamp
News Made of plastic, electronic paper can change what is "written" on it by having data downloaded to it -- an idea dreamed up at the Media Lab at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and which is now being developed by E Ink Corp.
[March 25, 1999, 5:59]
Can Amazon's Kindle become a bestseller?
News Instead of staring into a flashlight, which is what reading most backlit computer screens is like, E Ink's technology makes the experience more like reading paper and ink than any screen technology developed so far, according to E Ink's chief...
[November 21, 2007, 14:50]
Photos: Technology Showcase at IDF review
Reviews No answer as yet to the elemental question: why are e-ink e-books always demonstrated with a selection from Sherlock Holmes? Unlike your average serpent, though, this detachable wrap contains an electronic ink screen and ancillary electronics, so...
[April 17, 2007, 12:50]
Sony Reader PRS-505 review
Reviews Another advantage of E Ink is that it only draws power when a page refreshes; when an image is being displayed, there's no power consumption. Like the other eBook readers we've reviewed, the Reader PRS-505 has an E Ink screen.
[October 2, 2008, 15:47]
Epson Stylus Photo 2100 review
Reviews The extra resolution unites with the light-black ink to perceptibly enhance detail in small highlight areas, such as the dimples on a golf ball. For printing on non-glossy papers, Epson offers an optional, hot-swappable matte-black ink cartridge to...
[September 11, 2002, 7:50]
E-Books: Getting there, slowly
News But some experts say e-books need to do more than move ink onto digital displays to go mainstream. Five years ago, in addition to the lack of titles, some customers complained about restrictions in e-book readers on printing, copying, exporting to...
[April 7, 2006, 12:50]
iRex iLiad review
Reviews The display is from E-ink, whose technology is entirely different to anything currently used in notebook or desktop computers. The E-ink display technology at the heart of the iLiad is superb. The iLiad is a slim, slate-style tablet measuring...
[September 10, 2007, 14:44]
Electronic ink slims down screens
News Start-up E Ink is demonstrating a prototype of a flexible computer screen that's half as thick as a credit card. E Ink plans to license its technology to manufacturers and expects consumers to have the displays in hand by 2005.
[June 7, 2002, 11:52]
E-reader maker Polymer Vision goes under
Blog Polymer Vision, the makers of the Readius folding e-ink reader, have gone under due to funding issues. The Readius has been shown off in working prototype form since 2007. Much more portable than devices such as Amazon's Kindle, the pocketable, 3G...
[July 20, 2009, 15:05]
How come e-book software/hardware is so poorly executed ?
Blog Ok it's displayed in e-ink but I for one still love the first gen ipod software and wonder why ebook and (linux) based readers cannot sharpen up there act. May be its me but given the new interface of the iphone and palmpre I am really taken back...
[January 27, 2009, 16:37]
COOL-ER: a home-grown e-book reader
Blog The basic specs are these: a 6in.dpi, 8-greyscale e-ink screen; a sub-A5 footprint (189mm by 117.7mm) and 178g weight; a 400MHz Samsung S3C2440 processor with 128MB of RAM and 1GB of solid-state storage (with an SD card slot for expansion); 1...
[May 29, 2009, 16:47]
Amazon introduces its Kindle e-reader
News The Kindle features a six-inch display based on technology from E Ink. Amazon.com chief executive Jeff Bezos on Monday unveiled the company's e-book reader, the Kindle — the latest entry into the long unspectacular market for electronic handheld...
[November 21, 2007, 12:01]
