Here's another device to add to the growing list of recently announced products using E Ink (http://www.eink.com) displays. In case you're keeping score, the Sony Reader (http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=5663), iRex Iliad (http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=5582), Jinke Hanlin (http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=5083), and Lexar JumpDrive Mercury (http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=5648) all use the MIT Media Lab (http://www.media.mit.edu/) spinout's electronic paper in their products.

Now Ambient Devices (http://www.ambientdevices.com), another MIT spinout, have announced the Weather Wizard, a wireless weather station that displays a five day forecast using an E Ink display. The device gets weather information wirelessly over the Ambient Information Network, which covers over 90% of the U.S. population.

Unlike Xerox's e-paper spin-out Gyricon (http://gyricon.com/), who recently pulled the plug on e-paper (http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=5596), E Ink has found several manufacturers to utilize their electronic paper display technologies in consumer-oriented devices.

Full press release here (http://www.prweb.com/releases/2006/1/prweb329106.htm).

What amazes me is that E Ink technology isn't exactly new. E Ink has been around as a MIT spin-off since 2000, and the first E Ink products including the Librie since 2004. And now, all of a sudden, we're being flooded (not that I would mind) by E Ink-based gadgets. Perhaps the technology wasn't truly ready until now.