Now here's some yummy news to wrap our minds around. Samsung, a company with a manufacturing portfolio so wide that you wouldn't be surprised to see it selling toothbrushes and perfume, clearly also wants a slice of that
growing ebook market and has now unveiled a 10.1-inch color display with that purpose in mind. It's still very early days, with a measly 10:1 contrast ratio and the ability to display only 7% of the NTSC color gamut, but baby steps are better than no steps, right? While Sammy is shooting at delivering this within two years,
PVI -- the maker of displays for
Kindles and Sony
Readers -- is expected to ramp up production of its own color screens in the second half of 2010. Add these two heavyweights to the color e-readers already expected from Plastic Logic (
spring 2010) and
Bridgestone, and what you get is one hell of a thriving marketplace -- as long as
Pixel Qi doesn't render them all useless when it launches
later this year.
Read - Samsung Exhibits 10.1-inch Color E-paper
Read - PVI to ramp up flexible and color EPD in 2010
posted Oct 29th 2009 7:55AM
Can't touch this.
Photoshop M.C. Hammer next to it and you've got a winner.
Cool! With these, maybe my grand-kids would be ale to see a real tree in a real forest.
Keep the e-paper coming. now all we need is e-wood :D
I've already got e-wood.
Don't let your kids touch his e-wood.
I know! I am am just glad that they developed synthetic fabrics before all the cotton plants and sheep went extinct!
Sarcasm aside, you do realize Trees used for paper and lumber are actually farmed like crops right? The plant them in nice rows and come and cut them down when they are ripe. Just like Corn, except it takes 30-50 years between crops instead of one. Sure there are very few old growth giant trees left, and that is a real shame, but modern tree harvesting is far more responsible than enviro-nuts would have you believe. And all those trees they plant just to cut down, do extract carbon from the air and turn it into wood, which can be used for lumber an paper. So just think of all the carbon sequestered away in that physical book, instead of fearing for the tree farms.
The real deforestation problems are when forests are cut with intention of using the land for something else. The tropical rain forests aren't being cut down for paper, they are being cut to make farmland for your coffee. So look in your hand then next time you buy coffee and evaluate which is more devastating to the environment, the coffee or the paper cup.
yes, you are correct RandomGuy
Well, can't be from a Japanese company, otherwise it would have said "NO! Touch!"
Hell, the Ministry of Education here even promotes that as correct English.
So, it's not a touchscreen.
Can't hardly wait for the impending battle royale between Pixel Qi's technology and color e-ink readers, though I suspect the two will segregate themselves into different consumer products.
The main competition for Pixel Qi will likely be Liquivista's Electrowetting. Since both support video rate refresh speeds and optional backlighting, making them ideal for multipurpose devices.
By contrast the main competitors for color eInk will be other color electrophoretic display technologies. Compared to the former two these will offer lower power consumption, though the [currently] slow recycle time of electrophoretics in general means they're still better suited for more or less dedicated devices.
but .... but i want to touch it.
Samsung, you are so mean. :-P
Samsung shows, off color, e-paper prototype?! They've invented racist technology.
Doesn't "Off color" refer to something distasteful? I'm pretty sure it doesn't have anything to do with racism. :shrug:
Finally a color e-reader! Although the added cost might be
unnecessary. I also think there are too many e-readers
currently available, although i like the amazon
kindle best.
You will have to spend a lot more money on this
otherwise stick with gray-scale e-book readers,
unless you've been waiting for this for a loon time.
So now we can all see the Windows 2000 Control Panel in full, glorious color? The future is now.
It's XP. Notice the "Speech" icon.
"Samsung [. . .] clearly also wants a slice of that growing ebook market." It would seem, from this sentence, that you mean Samsung does not already have a slice of that ebook market. Maybe my reading is wrong, but just in case, the Samsung Papyrus debuted in South Korea this spring/summer. I live here and when I was looking for an eReader I went and played with a Papyrus. It's touchscreen, which lots of people like. I didn't purchase it because it lacked an SD slot and was only 5", which is very small. It does look nice in the pictures, though. It's partnered with Kyobo bookstores, the largest bookstore chain in SK.
No prictures prease
Great, not we can see the Book cover in color, and then read all the rest like we do now and add $100-$300 to the price. Why?!?!?! Oh and I just got my Kindle 2i last week. It's great. I like it far better then a normal Paperback. All my books are in one place. I don't loose my place and have to worry about a book mark. I can read with one hand. I can easily look up a word I don't know. I can get a new book no matter where I happen to be at any time. I can subscribe to Newspapers, Magazines, and Blogs. I can grab thousands of FREE ebooks also and about half on my Kindle are FREE right now.
There are MORE Tree's in the U.S. NOW then there ever was!!!! Yes a lot of the old growth forest was cut down, but now Tree's are harvested like any other Crop. It would be kind of dumb to just cut all the tree's down as at some point there's nothing left to cut. It's not about saving the tree's. Paper is recycled also!!!
i can touch it for teh lulz?