07-23-2005, 09:30 AM | #1 |
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Hitachi's e-paper goes wireless
Hitachi presented at a private show their idea of future e-paper technology. Expecting to hit markets by April 2006, the 13.1 100dpi monochrome display will feature 802.11b WLAN technology and enough space for a secondary battery. Although valuable treats to equip a e-book reader with, the technology has one caveat: it takes about 10 seconds to switch from one screen image to the next.
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07-23-2005, 10:18 AM | #2 |
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That's quite a caveat. Could be a deal killer for most. 10 seconds is an eternity for reading.
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You did notice that they didn't intent it for e-book readers (yet)? From the article referred to:
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I'm sure that the latency will go down in time with technological advances. I'm just loving the technology for it's future potential. Is this the same e-paper that's flexible? I have an idea that would use this e-paper, but the paper needs to be shaped.
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If it takes 10 secs to change after i read the text and whant to proceed...
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Not so bad if you're just reading a book, but 10 seconds is unworkable if you're browsing a magazine, or newspaper, or reference manual, etc...
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How long it takes you to read a page is irrelevent. You only change the page after you are done reading it. Then you have to wait 10 seconds to read the next one. |
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If I took 5 seconds or 5 minutes to read a page, I would still have to wait 10 full seconds to wait for the next page to come up when I finished reading the page I was on. To me, this is too long and frustrating a wait. |
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