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One of the big problems with e-readers is the fragility of the screen. This is going to make the e-reader much more practical to give to children.
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no. at least one company i know of has a flexible capacitive touch solution that can be bonded directly to the eink layer. because its bonded right to the eink it does not effect clarity of the display
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A capacitive touch screen is simply a transparent conducting layer painted on top of the outer screen of the display. Its associated electronics can go anywhere in the device.
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Or possibly my brain has failed the smoke test, and the flexible display would work fine with a capacitive touch screen. |
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I agree, I don't think we will see "Gumby" devices. The real benefit, at least for now, isn't bendable devices, but readers that can flex without breaking.
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And literature accounts for what, maybe 15% of school assigned reading? There's definitely value in handing kids the whole Project Gutenberg library (and whatever else the schools can license), but if it can't handle textbooks it's going to be a hard sell.
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http://www.the-digital-reader.com/20.../#.T9IZG-rVZo4 But the device in the above video is Wexler Flex one http://www.the-digital-reader.com/20.../#.T9IZkOrVZo4 http://www.the-digital-reader.com/20.../#.T9IZturVZo4 http://www.the-digital-reader.com/20.../#.T9IZvurVZo4 They are going to sell it here in Europe for 230Euro. It is already being sold in Russia for 8990 Rubles (the equivalent of 220Euro). http://wexler.ru/home http://wexler-global.com/ |
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The pictures on Wexler's website show the reader to be curved. Now why would we want it curved? That is just stupid.
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We are used to flat screens, but most pieces of paper we read from aren't flat.
The vast majority of paper books I have read had pages curved. If you open any paperback, at least one side of the spread is curved. You would have to break the spine to have perfectly flat page in paperback or the vast majority of hardbacks. I know that I am playing the devils advocate here. Consider this. The device is bendable, so it would be well suited to carrying in the pocket and so it would be resistant to damage by bending. If the device is bendable, it will never be perfectly straight. The only way to prevent random buckling, while you keep the device bendable is to put it in permanent curve. Just grab a single printed page and observe yourself how you hold it. I do realize that it is highly unusual, but I would give it a try. But not for 230Euro ;-) EDIT: do you remember "good old" CRT monitors we have been happily using for decades? Most of them were curved in two axes. Just look left at my avatar ;-) Last edited by kacir; 06-08-2012 at 01:32 PM. |
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