jgbrowning
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http://www.nature.com/nsu/030922/030922-10.html
cool article about e-paper.. perhaps the book of the future?
joe b.
cool article about e-paper.. perhaps the book of the future?
joe b.
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jmucchiello
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Yes, they've been putting out "news" articles about e-paper for the last 10 years. So, it should come to market in another 5 years.jgbrowning said:
jgbrowning
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jmucchiello said:
oh, fine! and here i thought i was on the cutting edge....
joe b.
jmucchiello
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Sorry. Still on the bleeding edge. Philips, IBM and I think Sony have all had "news" about e-paper (not sure who owns that potential trademark) in the past few years.jgbrowning said:
Cergorach
The Laughing One
Ashy said:Actually, that news story is a bit new - this is the first time I've heard of e-paper using color and having the capability of displaying sharp, clean images quickly enough to also display video! That's pretty cool! I want to be a beta tester!
Correct, that is exactly why this IS news.
Development has been going on for years, the only problem still is that it isn't in production and cheap enough to massproduce...
jmucchiello
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And that's why it really isn't news. If they can't mass produce monochrome e-paper then labratory color e-paper is just as vaporware.Cergorach said:
Cergorach
The Laughing One
jmucchiello said:
Just because you can't affort it, doesn't mean it's vaporware ;-p
It's news because they made it and it worked, the problematic part is that they don't believe it's economically viable yet to mass produce...
Also remember that there is a long period between invention and mass production, just look at rpgs, simple stuff. How long did it take from getting the basic 3E rules to the fully released product? A year+! Now think micro electronics, produced on a scale that WotC can only dream about...
I think that if you want to follow progress in the e-paper industry, you're best off following news on organic LEDs, which can be printed on a wide range of materials, including cloth and paper. Best of all, once the technology becomes mainstream, a 6 x 9 display will cost all of $25, compared to $90 for a B/W VFD display or monochrome LCD display, or $320 for a full color LCD of the same size.
Full color OLED displays are not laboratory experiments; Kodak now puts them on their digital cameras and Sony is putting them into certain models of celphones.
Now that the manufacturing process for OLEDs is stable, and the first manufacturing equipment for printable electronics is working (http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/09/24/wow.tech.santa.printer/index.html), I suspect that in as little as a year or two, we'll see the very first truly book-styled e-book system, with computer circuitry embedded in what looks and feels like a hardcover, a few dozen flexible full color OLED sheets for pages (no thicker than a normal sheet of heavy paper!), and a battery pack & memory card interface mounted in the spine.
Full color OLED displays are not laboratory experiments; Kodak now puts them on their digital cameras and Sony is putting them into certain models of celphones.
Now that the manufacturing process for OLEDs is stable, and the first manufacturing equipment for printable electronics is working (http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/09/24/wow.tech.santa.printer/index.html), I suspect that in as little as a year or two, we'll see the very first truly book-styled e-book system, with computer circuitry embedded in what looks and feels like a hardcover, a few dozen flexible full color OLED sheets for pages (no thicker than a normal sheet of heavy paper!), and a battery pack & memory card interface mounted in the spine.
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