Wistron Brings Flexible ePaper Handheld In 2010, The Readius Will Live

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Wistron has purchased Polymer Vision, which made waves back in 2007 with a phone that features a roll-up ePaper display dubbed Readius. The product never made it to the market.

According to Digitimes Wistron plans to release a handheld device similar to the Readius in 2010.
I will believe it when I see it in stores. Read more

Posted on Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:00:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

Bridgestone Creates Touch-Sensitive Flexible E-Paper

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Bridgestone, maker's of the world's first e-paper, are doing their part to make the world a little bit more cyberpunk. They announced today that they have developed a 13.1” touch sensitive piece of e-paper. This new e-paper is capable of displaying 4,096 colors and can refresh entirely in 0.8 seconds. Tech-On reports that the device is capable of communicating with some sort of handheld gadget, possibly even a smartphone.

Posted on Wed, 28 Oct 2009 06:13:44 CDT | by Robert Evans

Apple Tablet: Filled With Books, Newspapers, Textbooks?

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Technically what we have today aren't really new iTablet rumors. Gizmodo has information that Apple has been shopping around the old media haunts for content deals. Now that they've conquered music, movie, and TV downloads, the next logical step is print.

Apparently Apple approached the New York Times back in June. They wanted to talk with the paper about putting their stories on a "new device", presumably the iTablet. Apple also talked with McGraw Hill and Oberlin Press, two major textbook manufacturers, and convinced them to move textbooks over to iTunes. Once Apple is ready, they'll start selling iTunes textbooks at a substantial discount. Unfortunately, these books will be DRM filled to prevent resale.

Posted on Wed, 30 Sep 2009 10:01:04 CDT | by Robert Evans

T-Mobile Drops Paper Fee

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Earlier this Summer, T-Mobile decided to start charging users an extra $1.50 for receiving a paper bill. The new charge angered many people, and some argued that it was a deliberate attempt to get more money from elderly customers who lack access to the Internet. Apparently the complaints got through to T-Mo. InformationWeek reports that T-Mobile has decided to cancel the $1.50 charge.

T-Mo took a lot of slack when they attempted to characterize the price increase as something done out of environmental concern. New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo told the company that his office would, "not sit back and let a company change its prices under the guise of 'going green.'"

Posted on Wed, 16 Sep 2009 12:43:51 CDT | by Robert Evans

Pressmart Offers Newspapers on Kindle and Sony Reader

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Pressmart has announced that it will be providing digital editions of some of the leading newspapers around the world to Amazon kindle and Sony eReader users. The company hopes that the new offering will attract more customers to its digital newspaper service.

The company offers many digital newspapers including Philadelphia Inquirer, The San Diego Union-Tribune, Orlando Sentinel, Birmingham Post, Bangkok Post, the Sun, Hindustan Times, Deccan Chronicle, and Indian Express. The company's platform makes it easy for newspaper publishers to take their content online. Read more

Posted on Tue, 25 Aug 2009 07:00:00 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

BioWare Takes Dragon Age to Pen-And-Paper.

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BioWare, a game developer under Electronic Arts, announced today that they will begin working with Green Ronin publishing to create a pen and paper RPG set in the world of their upcoming game, Dragon Age: Origins. We've talked about Dragon Age here before, and from what we've been able to gather it looks like BioWare is really going all out on this one.

BioWare's said several times that Dragon Age is supposed to be the 'spiritual successor' to the massively successful Baldur's Gate franchise. Considering the money, effort, and prestige that BioWare's invested into this project, we can expect them to continue to throw a huge degree of support behind Dragon Age.

Posted on Tue, 5 May 2009 11:00:00 CDT | by Robert Evans

Flexible ePaper Touchscreen Display in the Works

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Electronic Paper displays have come a long way from just displaying black dots. We saw them starting to show grey scale, then color, becoming really thin and flexible and now flexible ePaper is also touchsensitive.
The ASU Flexible Display Center has developed a flexible electronic paper display that can be used directly as touchscreen.
The flexible touchscreen display supports user input either by stylus pen or by touch. Read more

Posted on Tue, 24 Feb 2009 23:42:53 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

Mark Papermaster finally starts at Apple in April

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In November Apple announced that Mark Papermaster is joining Apple as Senior Vice President of Devices Hardware Engineering. Mark Papermaster was a former IBM executive of 25 years and IBM sued to stop Papermaster from joining Apple citing competitive reasons.
Both companies settled the issue and came to an agreement. Mark Papermaster can join Apple starting April 24th. Read more

Posted on Wed, 28 Jan 2009 05:00:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

Super Bowl 3D Glasses have already made American Paper Optics a Winner

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One of the highlights of the Super Bowl 43 will be the 3D commercials. The company who actually makes the official Super Bowl 3D glasses is American Paper Optics. The company announced that with the 125 million Super Bowl 3D glasses they have reached now the astonishing 1 billion 3D paper glasses milestone.

The specialized Super Bowl 3D glasses use Intel's InTru 3D as well as the ColorCode 3-D technology. Read more

Posted on Fri, 23 Jan 2009 06:00:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

ThinkGeek Offers Paper E-Mail

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If your digital home or office is really getting you down and you are looking for a new way to un-green your environment you might consider the switch from real email to paper e-mail. This little pad of paper from ThinkGeek looks sort of like the email we send and receive every day.

You get a to field, date, time, cc, bcc and subject field along with a place for your message and your signature. For those attachments you like to send I suggest you get a stapler or some good ol’ paper clips. Each pad has 50 pages and sells for $3.99. Read more

Posted on Mon, 14 Apr 2008 11:14:19 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

Hot Asus Eee PC Gadget Model Dorothy, Free Eee PC Wallpaper

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The I4U Gadget Model for April is here. This month we celebrate the Asus Eee PC with a great I4U Gadget Model photo shoot featuring very sexy Hungarian born model Dorothy and a free Asus Eee PC Wallpaper.

Asus defined with the Eee PC a new category of low cost notebooks and landed a huge hit.
Every other notebook maker now wants in on this hot new trend and releases similar products this year.
See the Asus Eee Girl Photos Now
(Warning: Depending on your Company’s culture the photos might not be safe for work) Read more

Posted on Thu, 10 Apr 2008 11:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

How to install Desktop Wallpaper on Asus Eee PC

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We just released our Asus Eee Gadget Model, where we also feature a free Wallpaper for download. Because it is not as easy to install a Wallpaper on the Asus Eee PC as it is on Windows or Apple computers here is a quick guide on how to do it. Read more

Posted on Thu, 10 Apr 2008 10:54:11 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Ziszor Handheld Paper Shredder Review

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Today we are looking at the Ziszor handheld shredder. This small shredder allows you to shred all those junk mails you get that could be used to steal your identity if they fell into the wrong hands.

The only problem with the Ziszor shredder is that the device cuts the documents into strips leaving clearly legible information. This could be a big issue if you are shredding documents with visible personal data. Read more

Posted on Tue, 26 Feb 2008 13:37:31 CST | by Shane McGlaun

Readius ePaper Phone comes mid 2008

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Polymer Vision, the ePaper spin out from Philips is promising the Readius mobile phone again. Sounds like this year’s Mobile World Congress must start soon in Barcelona.

About one year ago Polymer Vision and the Telekom Italia was supposed to offer the Cellular-Book dubbed Readius in 2007. Looks like that did not work out and the new release of an improved Readius phone is now scheduled for mid 2008. Read more

Posted on Wed, 23 Jan 2008 10:00:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

LG.Philips LCD shows highest resolution flexible e-Paper at CES 2008

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LG.Philips LCD will debut the world’s highest resolution 14.3-inch flexible color e-paper at the CES 2008.

The 14.3-inch E-paper display, which is equivalent in size to an A4 sheet of paper has a resolution of 1,280x800px and can display 16.7m colors. These e-paper displays are extremely energy efficient, only using power when the image changes. Additionally, the displays are extremely thin, at less than 300 micrometers. Read more

Posted on Thu, 3 Jan 2008 09:48:32 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

Phosphor E Ink ePaper Watches

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Our watch news site Wrist Dreams reports about the new Phosphor watches that use E Ink ePaper as display.

The Spectrum gives Seiko an E Ink watch on the market, but it's availability is limited and price tag is high. Read more

Posted on Sun, 9 Dec 2007 03:00:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

PVI supplies e-Paper Display for Amazon Kindle

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Amazon launched their e-book reader Kindle on Monday. PVI is the supplier of the display in Kindle. PVI (Prime View International) also supplies the e-paper display for the Sony Reader.

The 6 inch PVI display the Amazon Kindle uses has a resolution of 600×800px at 167ppi and 4-level gray scale. Read more

Posted on Wed, 21 Nov 2007 06:00:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

Super Paper Mario for the Nintendo Wii Review

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Futurelooks published a review of the Super Paper Mario for the Nintendo Wii game.

Quote from the review: "When you think of Nintendo, what’s the first thing that comes to mind? Even better, who’s the first person to come to mind? I think of the short, pudgy, mustached, sunburnt, blonde loving, Read more

Posted on Thu, 8 Nov 2007 15:00:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

Bridgestone shows new .29mm Flexible Color e-Paper

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Bridgestone shows their latest flexible color e-paper this week at the FPD International in Yokohama, Japan.

In 2006 Bridgestone showed a flexible color e-paper that only supported two colors. One year later Bridgestone managed to develop a flexible color e-paper with 4,096 colors. Read more

Posted on Mon, 22 Oct 2007 11:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

OMTP Paper Recommends All Mobile Phones Use Micro USB

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Open mobile Terminal Platform (OMTP) announced recently that after consulting with manufacturers in the phone industry they are recommending all mobile phone manufacturers standardize on micro USB as the connector for charging and synchronizing mobile devices.

This would be a great thing for mobile device users as we would then only need one charger to be able to charge or power and manufactures mobile handsets. Nokia was one of the main manufacturers that pushed for this recommendation. Read more

Posted on Tue, 18 Sep 2007 13:32:22 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

First 14.1 inch flexible Color E-Paper by LG Philips

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LG Philips has developed the world's first 14.1 inch color screen that is as flexible as paper.

Several companies work on e-paper. The new LG Philips one marks the first in A4 size. It can display up to 4096 colors and the displayed content stays on, when the power is switched off. Read more

Posted on Mon, 14 May 2007 11:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr