http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/nec-tiling-e-ink-displays-for-massive-coverage/ Engadget Comments for NEC tiling e-ink displays for massive coverage 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/2008/10/28/nec-tiling-e-ink-displays-for-massive-coverage/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/nec-tiling-e-ink-displays-for-massive-coverage/Oct 28th 2008 8:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/nec-tiling-e-ink-displays-for-massive-coverage/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/nec-tiling-e-ink-displays-for-massive-coverage/]]>Oct 28th 2008 9:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/nec-tiling-e-ink-displays-for-massive-coverage/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/nec-tiling-e-ink-displays-for-massive-coverage/
So, what that's like, dove, gunmetal, stone, hearth, uh...stone...]]>Oct 28th 2008 8:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/nec-tiling-e-ink-displays-for-massive-coverage/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/nec-tiling-e-ink-displays-for-massive-coverage/Oct 28th 2008 9:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/nec-tiling-e-ink-displays-for-massive-coverage/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/nec-tiling-e-ink-displays-for-massive-coverage/
This is a great step forward for those of us that do get it. Can't wait to see what applications become available with this new achievement; textbooks, (school kids will have it soo much better than we did carrying around 50#'s of books between classes...) 500 different cookbooks on a thin screen that can be clipped to a cabinet to clear up workspace... Researchers that can carry hundreds of reference books at any given time...

Can't wait!]]>Oct 28th 2008 9:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/nec-tiling-e-ink-displays-for-massive-coverage/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/nec-tiling-e-ink-displays-for-massive-coverage/
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Someone should have told NEC before they wasted their time on this.]]>Oct 28th 2008 9:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/nec-tiling-e-ink-displays-for-massive-coverage/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/nec-tiling-e-ink-displays-for-massive-coverage/Oct 28th 2008 9:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/nec-tiling-e-ink-displays-for-massive-coverage/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/nec-tiling-e-ink-displays-for-massive-coverage/Oct 28th 2008 9:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/nec-tiling-e-ink-displays-for-massive-coverage/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/nec-tiling-e-ink-displays-for-massive-coverage/
We're not knocking the technology, we're just saying it's completely pointless - the colour one as well. Why bother with this when you can just get a screen out of an iPod touch and be done with it?

@ign,

That's a number sign. He was using it to indicate the number of books. It's the same as writing "...carrying around 50 numbers of books...". At least, i'm sure that's what he meant. You should consider de options before blasting someone's grammar.]]>Oct 28th 2008 10:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/nec-tiling-e-ink-displays-for-massive-coverage/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/nec-tiling-e-ink-displays-for-massive-coverage/
@puff,

just as likely that he was using it to stand for lbs, since it is the pound sign...?]]>Oct 28th 2008 10:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/nec-tiling-e-ink-displays-for-massive-coverage/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/nec-tiling-e-ink-displays-for-massive-coverage/
Wha? Lb-sign? It's a hash, and well you know it. It wouldn't make any sense otherwise.]]>Oct 28th 2008 10:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/nec-tiling-e-ink-displays-for-massive-coverage/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/nec-tiling-e-ink-displays-for-massive-coverage/
Uhh, this symbol:
#
is commonly referred to as "pound sign" on every phone menu you've ever called. They call it this because, in the "old days" it was short hand for "pound" or "pounds".

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Because the iPod touch screen is backlit. Reading from a backlit screen for a long time hurts your eyes. However, reading from e-ink does not. This is why it is a better replacement for real paper.]]>Oct 28th 2008 12:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/nec-tiling-e-ink-displays-for-massive-coverage/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/nec-tiling-e-ink-displays-for-massive-coverage/Oct 28th 2008 12:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/nec-tiling-e-ink-displays-for-massive-coverage/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/nec-tiling-e-ink-displays-for-massive-coverage/
The Symbol # has several names, some confusing. The most common is probably 'hash'.

In the US it is sometimes called the 'pound sign' and used as a symbol for pounds weight, but this confuses the British, for whom a pound sign is £. In music, of course, it is a 'sharp'. The picturesque name 'octothorpe' has also been introduced: it is said to have been invented by an employee of Bell Laboratories in the 1960s, in honour of the American athlete Jim Thorpe. In the large form in which it appears on modern telephones it is sometimes called 'square'.

(http://www.askoxford.com/asktheexperts/faq/aboutsymbols/hashsymbol)

]]>Oct 28th 2008 3:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/nec-tiling-e-ink-displays-for-massive-coverage/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/nec-tiling-e-ink-displays-for-massive-coverage/I am very excited by the e-ink developments.
Not even a grin though? No?]]>Oct 29th 2008 2:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/nec-tiling-e-ink-displays-for-massive-coverage/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/nec-tiling-e-ink-displays-for-massive-coverage/Oct 28th 2008 9:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/nec-tiling-e-ink-displays-for-massive-coverage/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/nec-tiling-e-ink-displays-for-massive-coverage/Oct 28th 2008 10:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/nec-tiling-e-ink-displays-for-massive-coverage/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/nec-tiling-e-ink-displays-for-massive-coverage/Oct 28th 2008 9:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/nec-tiling-e-ink-displays-for-massive-coverage/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/nec-tiling-e-ink-displays-for-massive-coverage/Oct 28th 2008 9:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/nec-tiling-e-ink-displays-for-massive-coverage/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/nec-tiling-e-ink-displays-for-massive-coverage/
Back in the day- say 1986- portable computers weighed in the 20-lb range and had 640x480 grayscale resolution. By 1993, I had a Powerbook 145 that weighed 7lbs, yet still sported a 640x480 passive grayscale screen. Terrible by today's standards. But what could you do? That was the state of technology. It's always evolutionary- even the revolutions. Now take a look at the MacBook Air. The old Powerbooks look like slide rules in comparison. So if you want to criticize this product, you are being entirely too myopic. The future is ePaper, where the contrast ratio is far and away better than even the monitor you're looking at right now, it's lighter, and it's lower power. One day you're going to see e-Paper "monitor"s hanging everywhere. Heck, you may even roll your computer into a tube one day, or fold it up.

The future is a computer that will make the MacBook Air look ancient by comparison. Our current cellphones will look fat and bulky. If you think 16-level grayscale is the limit of this technology, you never owned an old Powerbook. If you think the iPod Touch has the be-all and end-all of screen technology, you're not paying attention. And you don't read books. ...Backlight!? Criminy, I long for the day when the backlight is another quaint technological milestone. Give me something with the contrast ratio of good old paper! Make anti-glare coatings and washout in the sunlight a thing of the past! I want to take my laptop to St. Maarten and spend the rest of my life working from the beach, Mai Tai in hand (cute little fru-fru umbrella included).]]>Oct 28th 2008 11:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/nec-tiling-e-ink-displays-for-massive-coverage/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/nec-tiling-e-ink-displays-for-massive-coverage/
A quality pair of contacts will cut through the blur of sarcasm and reveal my obnoxious, ignorant comments for what they are: obvious trolling.

I generally try to keep my comments as constructive as possible, but sometimes you just gotta let yourself go and have a laugh. Normal service will be resumed tomorrow.]]>Oct 28th 2008 11:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/nec-tiling-e-ink-displays-for-massive-coverage/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/nec-tiling-e-ink-displays-for-massive-coverage/Oct 28th 2008 12:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/nec-tiling-e-ink-displays-for-massive-coverage/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/nec-tiling-e-ink-displays-for-massive-coverage/Oct 29th 2008 3:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/nec-tiling-e-ink-displays-for-massive-coverage/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/nec-tiling-e-ink-displays-for-massive-coverage/www.newtek.com]]>Oct 28th 2008 2:21PM