Fujitsu shows off color e-ink tablet concept
By Paul Miller 
posted Oct 5th 2006 12:59PM
posted Oct 5th 2006 12:59PM
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a must buy for manga readers
Indeed. And they picked an excellent manga to show off the new technology!
Fist of the North Star is awesome.
But VGA means that this device is only ~102 DPI. One of the big advantages of E-ink is the high dot density; the Sony reader has 170 dots per inch.
It's only ~100DPI, but it's color. Since I'm much more likely to read comic books on an eBook reader than traditional books, color would suit me well. On the other hand, 100DPI isn't enough to really read some of that small text.
I'll be first in line when a high-res color eInk device comes out that supports jpgs (or CBR, or PDF with images). I like that a lot of the current readers support non-DRM files, I hope it continues.
32MB of internal memory?
why do they bother with any at all?
I want to hit that so hard that the tent in my pants is about to explode (I am a manga reader XD).
I wouldn't pay extra for color... The mangas I read are all in black and white except for the covers. I would just need one with good battery life and ability to read pdf files.
Actually, although there is a Magen David (Star of David, Jewish symbol), obviously the rest of the language on there is Japanese. Close, but no cigar.
We'll return to "Torah Torah Torah" after this...
So..black and white E-ink works with the little balls being 1/2 black and 1/2 white, with positive or negative charges. How are they doing color?
Probably the same way TV's and Print does color, combinations of very small red, blue, and green pixels.
Since it's more like ink than light, I'd imagine that they'd have to use subtractive color (CMYK) rather than additive (RGB).
Hold the carbon fiber please.
About that carbon fiber; I haven't seen a single application that is attrative
That's not a jewish ryu, that's the Fist of the North Star
Fist of the North Star for the win!
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I can't wait till we see full blown tablet computers using advanced forms of these kinds of e-ink displays.
I know this is e-ink and not LCD/TFT/etc, but what's so special about VGA resolution on this thing? That's not very dense on a screen this large. We've got plenty of PDAs and other devices running around with VGA and above (think Nokia Internet Tablet) on much smaller screen sizes.
I know this is e-ink and not LCD/TFT/etc, but what's so special about VGA resolution on this thing? That's not very dense on a screen this large. We've got plenty of PDAs and other devices running around with VGA and above (think Nokia Internet Tablet) on much smaller screen sizes.
Excuse the double/triple post. Satellite internet is flaky in the rain :-).
Low resolution... However this is the thinest and nicest looking device i've seen so far. Sweet carbon-fiber finish. Almost anythings better then the plain old plastic in some old monochorme shade somewhere between black and white that almost every portable device comes in. Though I would prefer a nice stainless steel and mohogany finish with real metal and real wood....
I'd like to get excited by this, but it's a toatl prototpye.
Might be vapourwear for all we know.
Just because it's a e-Ink,the technology said "practical" so long.
by the way,why don't we think about using this as a digital notebook for students?We can save bag spaces for so many notebooks,I think.
Fujitsu's color e-book display uses bi-stable cholesteric LCD technology licensed from Kent Displays, Inc. Three layers of LC material are stacked (RGB), to achieve the brightest full-color reflective display possible today. Electrophoretic technology cannot do this. The only way to achieve color displays with e-ink is to use color filters which results in a display thats 1/3 the brightness of a monochrome display.
That's not a jewish ryu, that's the Fist of the North Star
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