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Alexander Turcic · 01-22-2007, 09:12 AM

Color us skeptics on this one, but a French company named Nemoptic claims to have developed an electronic paper superior to that of E Ink or other electrophoretic technologies. Just what we expect from e-paper, their bistable nematic technology (also dubbed BiNem) requires power only when you change the content of the screen. In addition, the company says it's offering a better contrast ratio ("up to 15:1" versus "4:1") and a faster refresh rate than E Ink. Well, perhaps they did not update their webpage recently, but from the information I could gather, the current generation of E Ink displays has an 8:1 contrast ratio. Probably one great advantage, if true, is that you can use standard LCD production lines to manufacture BiNem display panels.

Last week, Nemoptic CTO Jacques Angele was interviewed by a French newssite, and he said that his company was about to enter the e-book market with the Sylen reader (see photo). While I don't know anything about this reader, I found on their website (here and here (PDF)) that back in 2003, there was another reader supposedly launched with BiNem technology in partnership with Taiwanese Picvue. Do you know more?

01-22-2007, 09:12 AM	#1
Alexander Turcic Fully Converged Posts: 18,175 Karma: 14021202 Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Switzerland Device: Too many to count here.	Nemoptic says our e-paper is better than others Color us skeptics on this one, but a French company named Nemoptic claims to have developed an electronic paper superior to that of E Ink or other electrophoretic technologies. Just what we expect from e-paper, their bistable nematic technology (also dubbed BiNem) requires power only when you change the content of the screen. In addition, the company says it's offering a better contrast ratio ("up to 15:1" versus "4:1") and a faster refresh rate than E Ink. Well, perhaps they did not update their webpage recently, but from the information I could gather, the current generation of E Ink displays has an 8:1 contrast ratio. Probably one great advantage, if true, is that you can use standard LCD production lines to manufacture BiNem display panels. Last week, Nemoptic CTO Jacques Angele was interviewed by a French newssite, and he said that his company was about to enter the e-book market with the Sylen reader (see photo). While I don't know anything about this reader, I found on their website (here and here (PDF)) that back in 2003, there was another reader supposedly launched with BiNem technology in partnership with Taiwanese Picvue. Do you know more?