Comments on: seiko epson creates hi-res e-ink display

By: Wondering Fish

Wondering Fish — Sun, 18 May 2008 22:52:18 +0000

Looks quite interesting. Should certainly help increase the battery life of notebooks. Imm guessing that at some point a colour display will be possible

By: technabob

technabob — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 04:21:32 +0000

Regarding Nathan’s comment above: this is simply an early prototype, so the button battery will probably be replaced with a rechargeable in the production model. Also, the screen isn’t the same as the one in the Sony Reader. It’s much higher resolution.

By: Mig

Mig — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 20:33:49 +0000

Quite interesting development. I read somewhere an article about the death of ebook readers – and sure I had enough doubts about that. This device proves me right. Quite amazing. It can probably display anything from type fonts to images.

By: Nathan

Nathan — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 18:59:13 +0000

This probably uses the same screen as the new Sony Readers; ie, an 8-level grayscale eInk screen. The 6.7 inch screen is nice, although the fact that they have it using button cell batteries instead of a rechargeable is a big turn-off for me.

By: manchicken

manchicken — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 14:21:39 +0000

I’ve seen one of these in action. If it’s what I saw, the e-ink is quite different from the normal concept of a pixel, to. What I saw was really neat because instead of constantly using electricity to keep the display up, it used electricity to draw the display and because of how the display worked chemically, the display remained up until it was changed again.

I wonder if Epson’s device works like that, or if it actually works more like a traditional display. I also wonder if it’s capable of color display.

Unfortunately, if this turns out to be anything like any of the two Epson printers I’ve had, then it’ll die in a spectacular show of smoke and popping noises… which would be a little more hazardous for an e-ink display…