'New' Electronic Paper announced for the 400th time

[Taro Toporific]

First-Generation Electronic Paper Display to Be Used in New Electronic Reading Device
azom.com/ / March 24
Royal Philips Electronics, Sony Corporation and E Ink Corporation announced today the world's first consumer application of an electronic paper display module in Sony's new e-Book reader, LIBRIé, scheduled to go on sale in Japan in late April. This "first ever" Philips' display utilizes E Ink's revolutionary electronic ink technology which offers a truly paper-like reading experience with contrast that is the same as newsprint....resolution in excess of most portable devices at approximately 170 pixels per inch (PPI)...a user can read more than 10,000 pages before the four AAA Alkaline batteries need to be replaced.

[devicenull]

where's my flying car?

[NeoNecroNomiCron]

When will them make an electronic paper shredder? Or will it go through my old one.

[Taro Toporific]

where's my flying car?

In my Japanese 3-car garage next to my lawn tractor.

[Big Booger]

Why can't they make the thing Lithium Ion and rechargable, like a ketai???

I don't get whey they use AAA batteries??? How wasteful and expensive.

[AssKissinger]

Why can't they make the thing Lithium Ion and rechargable, like a ketai???

I don't get whey they use AAA batteries??? How wasteful and expensive.

Those lithium bats are great for keitai's but they suck for walkmans. They won't get me through a day. I just buy the triple a bats bulk. I listen to a walkman around three hours a day everyday and I've tried it all so don't even argue anyone. Nobody knows walkmans more than I do. Do you really care about being wasteful?

[Kanchou]

NiMh batteries would fine, imo...

[GomiGirl]

When will them make an electronic paper shredder? Or will it go through my old one.

I think you should try with your old one.. just make sure you are sitting in the bath when you do it..

[bejiita]

where's my flying car?

Down at the Milk Farm.

[Frost]

where's my flying car?

http://www.viewaskew.com/tv/leno/flyingcar.html

[Taro Toporific]

When will them make an electronic paper shredder? Or will it go through my old one.

No shredder need: "The message will self-destruct in 15 seconds...."

Sony Librie: $5 e-books vanish after 60 days
From: TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home
I love what I've heard about the sharp-as-print screen of the Sony Librie . But Japanese readers will have to pay as much as $5 per book for Librie-format files that vanish after 60 days. This is a most consumer-hostile business model.

[nullpointer]

This is a most consumer-hostile business model.

So the Japanese companies are learning something from American corporations after all.

[Big Booger]

When will them make an electronic paper shredder? Or will it go through my old one.

No shredder need: "The message will self-destruct in 15 seconds...."

Sony Librie: $5 e-books vanish after 60 days
From: TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home
I love what I've heard about the sharp-as-print screen of the Sony Librie . But Japanese readers will have to pay as much as $5 per book for Librie-format files that vanish after 60 days. This is a most consumer-hostile business model.

How long until a fix for the disappearing files LOL

[Taro Toporific]

Finally there's an English review by a journalist who <gasp> actually </gasp> used the product. It's looks like those mega-brains at Sony screwed-the-pooch again.


Ink still beats digital pagesBy Phred Dvorak / Tuesday, July 20, 2004
The Wall Street Journal
TOKYO -
...Now the world's two biggest consumer-electronics companies - Sony and Matsushita Electric Industrial, the maker of Panasonic devices - are giving the digital book a whirl in Japan, though not yet anywhere else.
....I took the Librie with me on a coffee run....with only four levels of gray shading, the images often looked rough. The Librie's relatively small screen was also a problem. Rather than shrinking the original page to fit the display, the publishers of "Cyborg 009" decided to put one frame on each page. The resulting story pace was so slow I got bored, even in the middle of a pitched battle between cyborgs and evil robots.
Part of the problem is that the Librie display's response is excruciatingly slow. "Turning" a page takes a full second, and using the jog wheel to move the cursor through menus is frustrating.
....Where the Librie really fails is in its handling of digital content. It can only view content that comes from a site run by Publishing Link, a Sony-affiliated company.... content expires after 60 days. The only English-language books I saw being offered were textbooks.


....Though it costs the same hefty $370, Panasonic's SigmaBook reader gets right a lot of what Sony gets wrong..... SigmaBook is also better suited to reading comics because it has two screens. At 7.2 inches, they are bigger than the Librie's and capable of more tonal gradations. But the device is also twice as thick and almost twice as heavy as the Librie.....
In general, though, the SigmaBook services are complex and confusing to use.

[amdg]

How long until a fix for the disappearing files LOL

The manufacturers are estimating about 1 month until a 'fix' is out. Open source software, and all that ....

[Taro Toporific]

Have e-books turned a page?
August 27, 2004, 4:00 AM PDT / CNET News.com
After more than a decade of false starts and empty promises, publishers may finally be starting to understand what consumers want from electronic books....
The Open eBook Forum trade group tallied e-book sales of $3.23 million for the first calendar quarter of 2004--a mere rounding error compared to the multibillion-dollar market for paper books. But that figure marks a 28 percent jump from a year ago, suggesting that e-books are on track to meet optimistic forecasts for the year. ...
...Bottom line: Sales are growing steadily, but digital rights management and other issues are likely to prevent any mass-market breakthrough.

[Taro Toporific]

[Big Booger]

[Taro Toporific]

When and where can we buy these?

I can get one "in 2006" along with my new flying car. Wo0T!


Caption:
TOKYO, JAPAN: Japanese electronics giant Hitachi unveils a prototype model of an electronic paper display which has a 7-inch size 64-color VGA LCDA panel, driven by ultra low electric power from a small solar battery... Hitachi is expecting to put it on the market in 2006. AFP PHOTO / 25 November 2004.

[Taro Toporific]

Where can I buy these?

Epson developing e-paper, giant flexible screens
(PC World) Dec 08
...The e-paper sheets will be displays mounted on flexible plastic backings and will be 0.2mm thick. The company wants to develop the technology to the point where an A4-sized sheet (297mm x 210mm), for example, would last a month to several months before wear and tear made it inoperable.
Such a sheet would cost well under $US100, Shimoda said. ....
The company also claims it can make giant TV panels that are light and flexible enough to be peeled off and on walls. These panels could combine active matrix Organic Light Emitting Diode (OLED) technology with thin film transistor technology and would also be seated on plastic, Shimoda said.
Such screens could cover whole walls and be used as scenery, he said.
The company is still vague on when peelable TV panels might become a reality but Shimoda has a date in mind.
"I am 50, so I would like to develop the technology before I retire," he said.

[Taro Toporific]

Where can I buy these?

gettyimages.com, TOKOROZAWA, JAPAN:Japan's Citizen Watch researcher Yasushi Kaneko displays the world's first curved clock display, utilized with an electronic paper display....more....]

[cliffy]

So they finaly have an electronic paper, how affordable is it? and how robust is it? What I am asking is it a true paper replacement yet? or is it just a 'curiosity' still?

[Taro Toporific]

So they finaly have an electronic paper, how affordable is it? and how robust is it? What I am asking is it a true paper replacement yet? or is it just a 'curiosity' still?

From what I have heard on Japanese TV, electronic paper is only sold for advertising purposes like promotional posters made of electronic paper. As of yet have have not seen one in action but the TV news showed electronic-paper posters being used in Akihabara.
Has anyone seen on these electronic-paper posters?

[Taro Toporific]

Well, I might have my flying car before this is a done-deal. Meh. :wink:


Sony, research body develop high-resolution, roll-up display panel - report
07.07.2005, 09:36 PM, TOKYO (AFX) -A research team from Sony Corp and the Institute of Physical and Chemical Research has developed a new type of display panel that is extremely thin and flexible enough to be rolled up like a piece of paper, with an industry-high resolution of 79 dots per inch (dpi), The Nihon Keizai Shimbum reported, without citing sources....more....

[Taro Toporific]

Where can I buy these?

Electronic paper debuts in Tokyo
pcpro.co.uk / Thursday 14th July 2005, 5:39PM
Forever just on the horizon, but year after year never getting closer. As well as holographic displays and integrated speech processing and pervasive computing, you could add electronic paper to the set of key technologies that seem to be always just out of reach.
But maybe electronic paper is about to roll up and plug in to an office near you.... Fujitsu Labs have announced a research breakthrough.
Describing it as the world's first 'film substrate-based bendable colour electronic paper with an image memory function', the electronic paper is thin, flexible...blah, blah, blah....Commercial applications are expected before March 2007.

[Taro Toporific]

Where can I buy these?

APRIL!

Bendable and colourful: Japan makers pursue e-paper
PC PRO, Thursday 28th July 2005 12:19PM
Various Japan-based display companies have been developing electronic paper (e-paper) technology, claiming that the technology offers an alternative to TFT LCD displays, as the technology features high brightness and contrast ratios, has strong colour reproduction and consumes less power.
At a private show at the Tokyo International Forum (July 20-21), Hitachi presented a 13.1-inch monochrome e-paper display that also featured WLAN support and a secondary battery pack. The company is planning to bring it to market at a price lower than LCD panels next April, with the focus being on applications such as signboards at public buildings, according to Nikkei Electronics....more...

[Taro Toporific]

"prototype" "next year"

AFP PHOTO, 6 August 2005
EBINA, JAPAN: Employee for Japanese electronics giant Fuji Xerox, Naoko Okada, displays a prototype model of electronic paper called "E-Paper".....The E-Paper is expected to be commercialized next year.

[Mulboyne]

Taro Todai's braille display

A group in Todai has developed a prototype Braille display technology which could be the foundation of Braille e-paper. Story (Japanese).

[Taro Toporific]

Taro Todai's braille display
A group in Todai has developed a prototype Braille display technology which could be the foundation of Braille e-paper. Story (Japanese).

This is new application from the same Tokyo University group lead by Prof Takao Someya which was covered in the thread, "Version up" the Men's SOM(tm)"

Human-like skin developed for robots
UPI, Aug 15, 2005, TOKYO----A flexible, electronic skin developed by University of Tokyo researchers may provide robots with a nearly human sense of touch...Someya and colleagues embedded organic transistor-based electronic circuits in a thin plastic film. The circuits, along with organic semiconductors, are capable of sensing pressure, as well as temperature. Someya said the net-like matrix is flexible enough to conform to the surface of an egg and can detect pressure and temperature simultaneously.....

Just think of the marriage of applications....the Men's SOM(tm)

[Mulboyne]

The new Seiko Spectrum (SVRD001) "e-paper" and "e-ink" watch due to go on sale on January 27th. A limited edition of 500 will retail at 262,500 yen each.