FujiXerox shows off color e-ink display with writing capabilities
By Nilay Patel 
posted Dec 7th 2007 1:42AM
posted Dec 7th 2007 1:42AM
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The more I look to that warning, the more tempting I want to touch it.
what a desparate pleading message, for god sake please don't touch it
I want to touch that screen too!
I can't wait to get a color e-book reader. Very cool.
I can imagine the stories of failed technology 50 years from now:
"The ultimate downfall of Xerox's E-Paper was that it couldn't be touched, and this didn't make it nearly as cool as Hammer."
dude! awesome! i cant wait till you can buy e-paper by the reem! but whats with that stupid picture of the basket of fruit? couldn't they get some doom screneshots or something more interesting?
At least this way you can see it can't display colors very realistically, because we've all seen fruit.
Exceptionally cool. This tech is going to have a great impact. Art, banners, reader screens. Anything that makes use of a static display is going to be using e-ink in a few years. And I bet they'll get the refresh rates up high enough to show animation before long too.
yeah indeed, that's the point of presenting a writable display when you cant even touch it
FujiXerox? LG.Philips? Fujitsu-Siemens? Sounds more and more like William Gibson book...
I know some people who worked for them in Japan... they said that Fujifilm was the partner Xerox picked when they got into the Japanese market years ago... used to be 50-50 but then Fujifilm bought out half of Xerox's shares for 75% ownership.
I believe Fujixerox also bought Xerox China a few years back when Xerox was bleeding cash, so for roughly half the world they ARE Xerox.
I don't really need a color display but I hope it'll make the grayscale ones cheaper soon.
For a color ebook reader - just get a Tablet PC and be done with it for now. Then you get a touchable writeable display that runs any ebook format.
yes, because we all know there's absolutely no difference between a tablet pc and a dedicated ebook reader with an e-ink display...
Was I suggesting they were identical?
However the price premium for a dedicated reader with limited format/ink availability is rather OTT. On the other hand a general purpose Tablet PC lets me read any format eBook, and annotate with electronic ink, or even sketch or paint with it. Plus all the other things a laptop can do.
.. other things a laptop can do for 1.5 hours until the battery is dead and your eyes are sore from reading on it.
Obviously never used one then. I can only speak with 6 years' worth.
i was gonna mention that there is an e-ink display for tide at my superwalmart here in town. It's not much but it's still pretty cool!
Why do we need color e-ink? okay sure, it would be nice to have a color e-ink display for picture books and other photographs, but for e-book reading its pointless. (just like the gameboy color)
Well, you can use it for magazines. Textbooks where concepts that are better explained in color, like medical textbooks. Carrying around a lot of photographs to show off to people. There are many more uses for a color ebook. Personally, I would rather have a color ebook than a black and white ebook.
I am looking forward to the day when we not only have color e-book readers, but textbooks in e-book form as well. For me at least, the size of my textbooks make it a chore to read them. Sadly, by the time color e-book/e-textbook readers become available, i will be out of school.