Fujitsu flaunts color e-ink, future tech concept horn o' plenty
By Jeannie Choe 
posted Mar 20th 2007 4:00PM
posted Mar 20th 2007 4:00PM
We're feelin' what Fujitsu's done so far this year, but now we've got an idea of what it might bust out with in the near future. Last week's Fujitsu North American Technology Forum 2007 was an opportunity to flaunt not-yet-real (at least not in the US) concepts like color e-paper and FPcodes, among a few others. We've seen Fujitsu's elusive e-paper prototype before, and it's still not ready, but at least now we know that the 8-inch, 640 x 480 color display is about 0.03-inches thick, with a 12-inch version in the works and an ambitious goal to reach 2.5-meters. It requires virtually no power and can operate with a teeny boost of focused energy like radio waves from a cellphone. In addition to this e-paper flight of fancy, Fujitsu was showing off a waterproof RFID tag, along with those QR-killin' FPcodes and their vein pattern identification system we've seen before.
Eh.. concepts usually = never come to market, and if they do, it's years from now.
I'm not getting too hyped up. e-ink is great, but it has a long way to go.
Man I hope they get this to consumers soon. I have thousands of digital comics that I'd love to liberate from my HDD so I can read on the shi...I mean...bus.
I'm not getting a digital photo frame until it's made from color e-ink.