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Originally Posted by Kali Yuga
From Engadget's own records, Bridgestone seems to have had prototypes of flexible color epaper displays dating back to at least 2006.
I can't tell for sure but it doesn't look like they really have anything in the ebook space yet. Wake me up when they have a shipping product. |
It does say :-
*Trials begin at the Kansai Urban Banking Corp early next year, but you can check it out sooner at FPD International 2009 in Yokohama City, Japan, starting tomorrow.*
Doesn't that mean they DO have devices working and ready enough for real world use? Amazon did some trials with their large screen thingy with academics and students, and generally got a thumbs down due to the clunkiness and mono screens. This sounds as if it could fit quite neatly into that potentially very large niche when/if perfected. Sounds good to me. Plus if these touch colour screens (or any other pending technologies) take off they could, I think, dominate (depending on price) which might well push down the prices of less desirable mono eink devices, which also sounds good to me.
I am of course guessing.
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Sorry, just realised you meant a product actually for sale. It does look like they are close to that though.