http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/22/bridgestone-shows-off-ultrathin-full-color-e-paper/ Engadget Comments for Bridgestone shows off ultrathin, full-color e-paper http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2008 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/22/bridgestone-shows-off-ultrathin-full-color-e-paper/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/22/bridgestone-shows-off-ultrathin-full-color-e-paper/]]>Oct 22nd 2007 5:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/22/bridgestone-shows-off-ultrathin-full-color-e-paper/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/22/bridgestone-shows-off-ultrathin-full-color-e-paper/Oct 22nd 2007 5:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/22/bridgestone-shows-off-ultrathin-full-color-e-paper/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/22/bridgestone-shows-off-ultrathin-full-color-e-paper/Nov 22nd 2007 10:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/22/bridgestone-shows-off-ultrathin-full-color-e-paper/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/22/bridgestone-shows-off-ultrathin-full-color-e-paper/Oct 23rd 2007 10:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/22/bridgestone-shows-off-ultrathin-full-color-e-paper/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/22/bridgestone-shows-off-ultrathin-full-color-e-paper/Oct 22nd 2007 5:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/22/bridgestone-shows-off-ultrathin-full-color-e-paper/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/22/bridgestone-shows-off-ultrathin-full-color-e-paper/
It would be cool if these support FMV. ]]>Oct 22nd 2007 5:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/22/bridgestone-shows-off-ultrathin-full-color-e-paper/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/22/bridgestone-shows-off-ultrathin-full-color-e-paper/Oct 23rd 2007 10:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/22/bridgestone-shows-off-ultrathin-full-color-e-paper/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/22/bridgestone-shows-off-ultrathin-full-color-e-paper/
In all seriousness, I've read alot about e-paper and I'm looking forward to it becoming mainstream tech.

This is one of the first articles I read about it a couple of years ago: http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2003/05/58765]]>Oct 23rd 2007 10:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/22/bridgestone-shows-off-ultrathin-full-color-e-paper/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/22/bridgestone-shows-off-ultrathin-full-color-e-paper/Oct 23rd 2007 10:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/22/bridgestone-shows-off-ultrathin-full-color-e-paper/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/22/bridgestone-shows-off-ultrathin-full-color-e-paper/I am still dreaming of the day when journal publications are available in full letter size with original colors in their vivacious glory.]]>Oct 22nd 2007 5:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/22/bridgestone-shows-off-ultrathin-full-color-e-paper/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/22/bridgestone-shows-off-ultrathin-full-color-e-paper/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_paper ) is too difficult, so I have conveniently done this for you.

Used the intertubes much lately?]]>Oct 22nd 2007 6:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/22/bridgestone-shows-off-ultrathin-full-color-e-paper/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/22/bridgestone-shows-off-ultrathin-full-color-e-paper/Oct 22nd 2007 6:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/22/bridgestone-shows-off-ultrathin-full-color-e-paper/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/22/bridgestone-shows-off-ultrathin-full-color-e-paper/
It is very power effecient, because the images stored on it dont require power to maintain them, only to change them. Try hitting the wiki link, its better at explaining it than I am.

I would love to see a e-paper rolling display on IBM Thinkpads, a small canister (like for film) is a lot smaller and more durable than the current flat board. make the keyboard rollable/foldable, and you could actually fold your laptop in half (provided you dont mind snapping it back together when you want to use it, and that could get a little dust (think SNES cart, but having a full size X60 that can fit in my pocket instead of under my arm. Brilliant.
I can't wait until e-paper hits the commercial sector.]]>Oct 22nd 2007 7:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/22/bridgestone-shows-off-ultrathin-full-color-e-paper/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/22/bridgestone-shows-off-ultrathin-full-color-e-paper/
Sorry to do this but: epaper is ENTRIELY DISSIMMILAR to LCD. It works using little globes with different charges on different coloured sides, so running a certain charge through the planes enclosing the globes attracts/repulses a different coloured side of the globes. This takesa while though (to get the different coloured sides of teh globes all lined up), so refresh rates are slow compared to any other display tech.
Whilst it can be rolled (up to a certain point), as yet it CANNOT be crmpled (not without breaking it, at least).

It's most commonly refered to as E-ink, one of the most oftused implementations of epaper technology.

What surprises me is that reading the blurb here it still seems the most advanced implementation here (full colour) is still first used in advertising; I would have expected that by now the latest greatest would be sold for use in phones/pda's. I know I want that.]]>Oct 23rd 2007 5:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/22/bridgestone-shows-off-ultrathin-full-color-e-paper/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/22/bridgestone-shows-off-ultrathin-full-color-e-paper/
"It's most commonly refered to as E-ink" -- Isn't E-Ink a company name?]]>Oct 23rd 2007 9:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/22/bridgestone-shows-off-ultrathin-full-color-e-paper/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/22/bridgestone-shows-off-ultrathin-full-color-e-paper/
Yeah, I'm not a noob.]]>Oct 23rd 2007 10:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/22/bridgestone-shows-off-ultrathin-full-color-e-paper/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/22/bridgestone-shows-off-ultrathin-full-color-e-paper/
But that face!]]>Oct 22nd 2007 7:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/22/bridgestone-shows-off-ultrathin-full-color-e-paper/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/22/bridgestone-shows-off-ultrathin-full-color-e-paper/Oct 22nd 2007 7:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/22/bridgestone-shows-off-ultrathin-full-color-e-paper/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/22/bridgestone-shows-off-ultrathin-full-color-e-paper/Oct 22nd 2007 7:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/22/bridgestone-shows-off-ultrathin-full-color-e-paper/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/22/bridgestone-shows-off-ultrathin-full-color-e-paper/Oct 22nd 2007 10:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/22/bridgestone-shows-off-ultrathin-full-color-e-paper/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/22/bridgestone-shows-off-ultrathin-full-color-e-paper/]]>Oct 22nd 2007 8:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/22/bridgestone-shows-off-ultrathin-full-color-e-paper/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/22/bridgestone-shows-off-ultrathin-full-color-e-paper/
The current downside of epaper is that the refresh rate on current devices is somthing like 1 frame per second or less, and has very visible refresh artifacts, so no video for you.

The advantage is that it reads like paper, based on reflected light, so it can be read in full sun just like a book. Still it would be handy to carry thousands of pages of books in a unit which is about the size of a single book.]]>Oct 22nd 2007 8:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/22/bridgestone-shows-off-ultrathin-full-color-e-paper/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/22/bridgestone-shows-off-ultrathin-full-color-e-paper/
E paper is a generic term for many types of display that are "paper-like"...

E Ink, SiPix, Gyricon (now no longer in business), Bridgestone, LiquidVista (Electrowetting technology) are all examples that work in different ways.

All e-paper is not the same!!
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