02-16-2011, 07:31 AM | #31 |
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Ok, now THIS catapults e-ink technology to a new level. That vid was really impressive! I wonder how the other companies will react... oohhhh... I should just start with the stock exchange right now.
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02-16-2011, 08:47 AM | #32 |
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Bookeen have a blog and I, for one, am subscribed to the new items - this never arrived in my mail box .... Colour - interesting .... Sometimes one hankers for something other than 'stale grey' to read on ... perhaps a light vellum colour and red-brown ink .... |
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I think it's need that they've made it able to watch videos, but I think the color aspect is much neater. It'd make reading magazines much more like reading the real thing. |
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Well, children's animated nursery stories. Instruction manuals that allow rotating of diagrams. Lots of applications, new markets
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While cool I can't help but think that video on e-ink is like having the newest, sharpest picture black and white tv set. It's the best in it's class but it's still a black and white tv.
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Amazons engineers will make very good use of this...they are a top notch bunch.
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Just quoted to give some context, but in general I would agree with all you have spoke, actually i do agree, considering current times. But as I've stated I was considering the importance of that being 'one step' in a LONG time frame. Not something for the next 5/6 years, but something in between the next 10/15. If u'd take a long study in most techs we use today, u'd see they started like 20/30 years as something that, like the color e-ink, wasn't really any useful. And for the "whether it ever will": Companies need to get new technologies on new products to raise sells, e-ink black and white won't last forever. Eventually every single product has it's sales peak, then it starts going down. When the product it's technology based, u need to add a new tech on it to get a new peak. So it doesn't really matter if people will actually want a color e-ink display because they are tired of their black and white. It will just happen, and people will either have to choose between "lcd + low battery + eyestrain" vs a color e-ink. And from what I've researched already on the topic screens, I don't see anything coming for the next years that can save battery for reading like e-ink does. Unless of course companies can come up with something better than e-ink to replace it.Then color e-ink will fade to death, because it will be replaced by some new tech. which mimics most of it's characteristics and adds some more. |
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