Giant e-paper display spotted, ogled at Taiwanese book show
By Ross Miller 
posted Feb 6th 2009 12:53PM
posted Feb 6th 2009 12:53PM
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That looks absolutely beautiful!
Try fitting that in your handbag
Try brief case, Dude.
OLED?
When they get flexible e-ink, I'd consider buying something of the sort.
Looks very crisp and clear too me.
Finally, it's actually happening. I've been waiting for the first real-life examples of this technology for ages.
The size of these implementations rather surprises me, always thought they would remain on a smaller scale. Image that this technology got cheap enough to use it as wallpaper ... A TV wherever you want it, wallpaper that matches your mood, e-paper by the square meter.
I actually would really like for newspaper companies to adopt something like this.
Imagine if they incorporated a touch screen, wireless capability (maybe wifi and 3g?), and a good amount of internal storage.
The newspapers could push out the newspaper each day to everyone subscribed to their service, the content could remain formatted like it is today. Major headlines with the start of articles on the front page, if you had poor eyesight you could zoom in on certain articles, touch an article and go to its full story. Maybe put links in to additional information.
The opinion section could have moderated comments from other readers (The editorial page is already moderated, and quite frankly I dont need to see "FIRST!!!" in my newspaper).
Actually, that's overkill with this technology.
all you need is an optical interface which can be made flat and bendable as in OLED technology.
Why update once a day from a computer? Have a think about this scenario:
You go to work in the morning, enter the corner-shop and ask for the sections of the newspaper you're interested in (e.g. if you're not interested in sports or financial news, why do you pay for it in every newspaper ?). Put your e-paper on the counter, with the optical interface at the right spot, pay and presto: the latest edition. A few hours later you want an update on a particular story, you go to a kiosk or an optical interface at the company and presto: the latest update. With an optical interface you can connect it to anything wireless you have today: all cellphones, pda's and laptops have an optical interface: the screen. Yes, it's one-way but it works. Use that device's wireless capabilities, don't cram them into the flexible e-paper.
With this technology, there's no reason for a synchronisation on a daily base - that's something which was enforced by the printing & distribution. Updates can happen any second, from any part of the world - one of the reasons why journalists go "to the office" is because their content needs to be fitted on a paper page in a mass of other content. With e-paper you can literally buy or sell per article, topic or section.
If that is what color looks like they need to go back to the drawing board.
Looks EXACTLY like a newspaper. Doubtful, but maybe they have a newspaper setting so that it looks more like a physical 'paper.
I don't think it's fair to judge it from a photo. It's certainly not accurate.
Hmm... are you guys sure you want to carry such a large device around? When this incorporates flexible display, maybe. But until then, we are going to wait for the new Kindle announcement next week!
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Almost looks like a real paper. Nice.
lol Obama?
It's advantage is not speed or human interaction, but the extremely low power consumption.
There are many applications that don't require frequent update and interaction
ex:photo frame, (physical) newspaper, price tags on shelves, posters....
basically everything today that uses "paper" may be replaced by it if it's mature enough...
For laptops, handhelds, cellphone... they replace a little part of paper application, but not all of them.
Therefore (ideally) the interface-intensive device (laptops, handhelds...) will work together with those paper that don't need much interaction.
ps: Delta Electronics is a company from Taiwan that makes power supplier (maybe your laptop's is their product)
ps2: hope such device will replace the expensive/low resolution/power consumption e-photoframe when it's resolution is workable...
The thing I hate most about newspapers is their unmanageable size. I'll wait for an A4 version.
Obama and chinese text, who would of thought of the awesomeness there.
Way past cool scenario: Obama becomes prime minister of Japan.
I WANT! (just saying)
The giant e-paper display is just a demo of Delta's e-paper. Currently, Prime View International, another Taiwanese company, supplies Amazon e-paper to be used in Kindle. However, Taiwanese Delta and Japanese Bridgestone (Yes, the tire maker) jointly develop a new kind of e-paper. The display technology, Quick Response Liquid Powder Display, is actually developed by Bridgestone for processing recycle tires. The new product will be cheaper and we can expect cheaper e-book reader this year.