Fujitsu breathes new life into color e-paper: brighter, faster, lovelier
By Darren Murph 
posted May 7th 2010 4:29PM
posted May 7th 2010 4:29PM
posted May 7th 2010 4:29PM
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still looks kinda bleh to me.
Ahh one step closer to the Minority Report animated cereal boxes...
@coolblue830
Make it flexible, and you won't need magic to animate photographs...
@coolblue830 And the animated newspapers and artwork from Harry Potter.
Both look pretty bad to me. Please no animated cereals!
The quality went from early 60's photography to late 60's photography. It's like watching history repeat itself.
@zangetsu2
and the speed at which technology evolves nowadays, e-paper should catch up with modern photography in just a few years. sweet!
More contrast.
This would be perfect for...(sigh)...never mind.
@ObsessedwithCourierDisorder
This would be perfect for making toilet paper. One long roll of animated toilet paper lets you watch videos while you are doing your business in the toilet. Hopefully these papers are biodegradable..
Well, I guess in 15 years they will be similar to an LCD in something not HD, but by then TV's will have crazy insane resolutions, inexpensive OLED and sub 1ms response times, so really I suspect the technology in E-Ink will never catch up, though, it is a lot nicer to read off of...
Yawn.
Paper ain't no gadget!
The new stuff actually looks worse to me. While it's more contrasty, it actually appears to produce less colors than the older type. Look at the big leaf on the left - the color bands and has a sharp falloff instead of blending smoothly.
Still looks like shit next to my iPad screen.
@mixotic Try it next to your iPad screen in direct sunlight. A situation where I find colour LCD screens to be almost totally useless.
@mukatuna Indeed, folks commenting are forgetting this is for e-readers not tablets.
They did some tests with various e-readers vs. the Ipad and it was concluded that for reading the e-readers still win the contest.
Not to mention this technology might make normal paper redundant in near future.
It looks like an old photo. This makes me think, in the future, people will look at the 10's e-paper screens as we look at the 60's photos.
@HikaKao
the debbie downers who comment on engaget will anyway
@zangetsu2
:) I thought the same.
I'm starting to doubt this techs. relevance to e-readers... is it too poor a quality for magazine companies to jump on board in the same way they would to a vivid LCD? May mean the market is locked down (more so than now) by the time its good enough for magazine subscriptions.
^ No way am I saying this technology will not succeed in other areas though!
I seriously think some of you guys grasp the concept of e-ink and paper. If this tech is invested in by more people, it will completely nullify the need for paper, thus allowing us to stop chopping down bloody trees ( you know, those green things that give us oxygen). But hey, the picture quality is 'bleh'. Just imagine, purchasing a newspaper of, let's say, The Times, and then linking said e-newspaper to a digital payment method and automatically getting your updated newspaper on your completely reuseable piece of paper. Because yes, this stuff can be rolled up. But the tech to allow us to have the paper unattached from from a piece of plastic isn't quite there yet... But give it time :-)
This tech is absolutely amazing. Flashy? No, at least not yet (and probably not soon), but its application potential is huge. Imagine not having to plug in your e-reader EVER because it ran off a kinetic energy capture or small photo-voltaic panels, much like watches.
Pretty cool stuff. A gateway into a truly wireless world.
In two years, this will look absolutely pathetic.
Takeaway: don't buy into transitional technologies.
Doubt it'll take that long... I don't wanna sound like a fanboy, but I'm guessing Mirasol will eat this for breakfast.
Yeah! 1% more color saturation!
Its spelt coloUr
"Someday" doesn't appear to be here, yet.
Still waitin' for Mirasol....
Nice - now add a multi-touch capable surface over it and I for one would love to parouse my daily newspaper et al in colour.
I wish tablet/e-reader manufactures would come together and put oled panels on one side (for indoor/night time), and e-paper on the other (for outdoors/sunlight)... Then you could take your book/game/work to the beach or something. Like a double sided ipad, though only one side is bright, the other requires an external light source.