electronic paper
“[T]he world’s first consumer application of an electronic paper display module in Sony’s new e-Book reader, LibriĆ©, [is] scheduled to go on sale in Japan in late April. This ‘first ever’ [...] 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.”
(See also E Ink’s press release and BBC News.)
March 31st, 2004 at 5:42 pm
Digital Paper E-Book
Next month Sony, Philips and E-Ink will be releasing the first digital paper electronic book in Japan, called “LibriĆ©” (see big pic). Its resolution is 170 dpi (newspaper quality), can download up to 500 book-length texts from a PC, has…