http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/16/seiko-epson-shows-off-uxga-e-paper-display/ Engadget Comments for Seiko Epson shows off UXGA e-paper display http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/16/seiko-epson-shows-off-uxga-e-paper-display/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/16/seiko-epson-shows-off-uxga-e-paper-display/Nov 16th 2007 9:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/16/seiko-epson-shows-off-uxga-e-paper-display/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/16/seiko-epson-shows-off-uxga-e-paper-display/Nov 16th 2007 9:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/16/seiko-epson-shows-off-uxga-e-paper-display/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/16/seiko-epson-shows-off-uxga-e-paper-display/Nov 16th 2007 9:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/16/seiko-epson-shows-off-uxga-e-paper-display/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/16/seiko-epson-shows-off-uxga-e-paper-display/Nov 16th 2007 10:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/16/seiko-epson-shows-off-uxga-e-paper-display/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/16/seiko-epson-shows-off-uxga-e-paper-display/
Haha, the second pic does indeed have a man holding the unit, it's not the girl from the first one, just check the ring.

John, you are an imbecile and quite rude. Go back to the nursery, idiot.]]>Nov 17th 2007 12:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/16/seiko-epson-shows-off-uxga-e-paper-display/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/16/seiko-epson-shows-off-uxga-e-paper-display/Do you know how perspective works, or do you only have 1 eye? I suppose you think the e-paper is shaped like a trapezoid as well? ]]>Nov 16th 2007 11:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/16/seiko-epson-shows-off-uxga-e-paper-display/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/16/seiko-epson-shows-off-uxga-e-paper-display/Nov 16th 2007 6:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/16/seiko-epson-shows-off-uxga-e-paper-display/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/16/seiko-epson-shows-off-uxga-e-paper-display/Nov 16th 2007 9:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/16/seiko-epson-shows-off-uxga-e-paper-display/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/16/seiko-epson-shows-off-uxga-e-paper-display/Nov 16th 2007 10:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/16/seiko-epson-shows-off-uxga-e-paper-display/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/16/seiko-epson-shows-off-uxga-e-paper-display/Nov 16th 2007 10:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/16/seiko-epson-shows-off-uxga-e-paper-display/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/16/seiko-epson-shows-off-uxga-e-paper-display/
On the flipside, I wonder when the e-paper itself will be commoditized. Readers are useful for taking one item with you (school, metro). But for the office, having a 'printer' with a stack of standalone e-paper would be very useful. Rather than burning pulp paper while test printing hardcopy documents, just feed a stack of e-paper into the printer. When you're done, pass the e-paper back through the printer to be erased..]]>Nov 16th 2007 12:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/16/seiko-epson-shows-off-uxga-e-paper-display/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/16/seiko-epson-shows-off-uxga-e-paper-display/Nov 16th 2007 10:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/16/seiko-epson-shows-off-uxga-e-paper-display/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/16/seiko-epson-shows-off-uxga-e-paper-display/Nov 16th 2007 10:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/16/seiko-epson-shows-off-uxga-e-paper-display/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/16/seiko-epson-shows-off-uxga-e-paper-display/Nov 16th 2007 10:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/16/seiko-epson-shows-off-uxga-e-paper-display/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/16/seiko-epson-shows-off-uxga-e-paper-display/Nov 16th 2007 12:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/16/seiko-epson-shows-off-uxga-e-paper-display/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/16/seiko-epson-shows-off-uxga-e-paper-display/Nov 16th 2007 2:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/16/seiko-epson-shows-off-uxga-e-paper-display/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/16/seiko-epson-shows-off-uxga-e-paper-display/
The issue is twofold: One, that even rotated into landscape mode where the top and bottom half of pages are displayed separately, the maximum pixel width is only 800px (flaws in the edge-detection algorithm for PDF mean it sucks at removing margins, BTW). The more important issue is that the stupid anti-aliasing algorithm makes non-bold text extremely light. There are four greyscale levels, and so imagine reading text that is approx. 10px tall, rendered in antialiased mode, with the antialiasing reducing virtually every one of those pixels to 50% or lighter. Reading becomes impossible. I wish they could come out with a firmware update to darken the text, or impose minimum pixel-width of lines for the font rendering.

So, if they can go to the trouble of actually testing this with a normal PDF, unlike Sony, I may have to buy it. The extra resolution will make a big difference, and here's hoping that the antialiasing algorithm will be much better, too.]]>Nov 16th 2007 10:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/16/seiko-epson-shows-off-uxga-e-paper-display/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/16/seiko-epson-shows-off-uxga-e-paper-display/
Also, a real, fully functional .chm reader; decompiling chm and using the resulting html sucks.

If an ereader doesn't have those two functionalities, all it's good for is plain novel reading...which my t3 tungsten does just as well.]]>Nov 16th 2007 11:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/16/seiko-epson-shows-off-uxga-e-paper-display/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/16/seiko-epson-shows-off-uxga-e-paper-display/
The Seiko looks nice though. Too bad it's not small enough to fit in a pocket though. ]]>Nov 16th 2007 11:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/16/seiko-epson-shows-off-uxga-e-paper-display/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/16/seiko-epson-shows-off-uxga-e-paper-display/Nov 16th 2007 12:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/16/seiko-epson-shows-off-uxga-e-paper-display/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/16/seiko-epson-shows-off-uxga-e-paper-display/Nov 16th 2007 12:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/16/seiko-epson-shows-off-uxga-e-paper-display/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/16/seiko-epson-shows-off-uxga-e-paper-display/Nov 16th 2007 12:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/16/seiko-epson-shows-off-uxga-e-paper-display/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/16/seiko-epson-shows-off-uxga-e-paper-display/Nov 16th 2007 12:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/16/seiko-epson-shows-off-uxga-e-paper-display/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/16/seiko-epson-shows-off-uxga-e-paper-display/Nov 17th 2007 7:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/16/seiko-epson-shows-off-uxga-e-paper-display/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/16/seiko-epson-shows-off-uxga-e-paper-display/Nov 16th 2007 1:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/16/seiko-epson-shows-off-uxga-e-paper-display/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/16/seiko-epson-shows-off-uxga-e-paper-display/
I guess this display is a rev board style prototype for other companies to take ahd mold into there own ebook systems...

Still Lovly]]>Nov 16th 2007 2:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/16/seiko-epson-shows-off-uxga-e-paper-display/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/16/seiko-epson-shows-off-uxga-e-paper-display/Nov 16th 2007 2:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/16/seiko-epson-shows-off-uxga-e-paper-display/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/16/seiko-epson-shows-off-uxga-e-paper-display/Nov 16th 2007 3:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/16/seiko-epson-shows-off-uxga-e-paper-display/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/16/seiko-epson-shows-off-uxga-e-paper-display/Nov 16th 2007 10:50PM