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Chinavasion Media Player Game Console Book Reader

Here’s another cheapie media player that manages to cram everything but the kitchen sink into a single device.

Chinavasion’s latest media player not only handles your music and videos with aplomb, it can also emulate a variety of classic gaming consoles. There’s emulation support for the NES, Gameboy, Gameboy Color and Sega Genesis so you can play your favorites from the past…

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August 19th, 2007 2 comments stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

panasonic wordsgear full color e-book reader

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Panasonic WordsGear E-Book Reader

Panasonic Japan’s recent entry into the e-book market is looking pretty nice. Unlike E-Ink based displays, the WordsGear can display full color images.

The WordsGear offers an amazingly sharp 5.6-inch TFT display with a 1024×600 pixel resolution (that’s about 211 pixels per inch.) This means reading small type should be no problem, and easy on the eyes…

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July 7th, 2007 3 comments stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

e ink improves electronic paper display modules

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Vizplex E-Ink

E-Ink has announced a major upgrade to their electronic paper display technology which should substantially improve the quality over the earlier generation of displays.

E Ink’s new Vizplex display modules have a new switching mechanism which will allow the displays to refresh almost twice as fast as prior displays…

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May 9th, 2007 1 comment stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

fujitsu shows paper thin flexible color display

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Toshiba Paper-Thin Display Prototype

So called electronic paper and electronic ink technologies have been showing alot of promise lately, especially with the upcoming release of Sony’s eBook Reader coming out next month.
At this week’s CEATEC show in Tokyo, Fujitsu showed off a prototype of a 7.8-inch paper-thin panel that can show 4,096 colors…

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October 3rd, 2006 post a comment stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

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