Bridgestone set to make major push into e-paper business

kaas · 07-01-2009, 05:25 PM

from endgadget.com:

http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/01/b...aper-business/

Bridgestone's already showed off some fairly impressive e-paper displays, and gone into mass production with displays for inventory tags and whatnot, but it now looks like the company is now set to make its biggest push into the market yet. According to Tech-On, Bridgestone will be announcing details of its plans in July or August, but it appears that the announcement will concern e-paper displays for e-book readers, at least one of which will be A4 in size. That particular screen was making the rounds of exhibitions back in April, and makes use of the company's proprietary "electron powder and granular material" which, among other things, lets the screen rewrite in just 0.8 seconds. Of course, there's no word on any actual devices using the e-paper just yet, but we're hoping that'll be among the details announced in the next month or so.

the more the merrier, I say

cheers,
kaas

AprilHare · 07-01-2009, 07:21 PM

Who knew tyres and e-book displays would come together in this way?

wodin · 07-01-2009, 07:25 PM

.8 seconds? That's an eternity! These things better be cheap if they expect to sell any!

fugazied · 07-01-2009, 07:38 PM

The black is probably old tyres, ground up and placed inside the device

0.8 seems like a LONG time, but I suppose the quality of these devices is akin to real paper, so no eyestrain and perfect to read the newspaper on. Some people hate staring at LCDs for long hours..

AprilHare · 07-01-2009, 08:08 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by fugazied

The black is probably old tyres, ground up and placed inside the device

0.8 seems like a LONG time, but I suppose the quality of these devices is akin to real paper, so no eyestrain and perfect to read the newspaper on. Some people hate staring at LCDs for long hours..

It is 1.25 Hz - the human approximate resting heart rate (or 37 times the rotational frequency of the Crab Pulsar) - and is equivalent to 75 pages per minute.

jgray · 07-01-2009, 09:00 PM

Oh wow! Powdered electrons. Just add water

The more display technologies, the better. Choice is good.

junkyardwillie · 07-01-2009, 09:39 PM

They had me at "will plan to release an A4 device in August 2009 for $300 that supports Adobe DE, Mobipocket, PDFs, txt, cbr, rtf, word, ppt, as well as many other eReader formats" O wait a minute...they didn't say that...

kaas · 07-02-2009, 02:25 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by junkyardwillie

They had me at "will plan to release an A4 device in August 2009 for $300 that supports Adobe DE, Mobipocket, PDFs, txt, cbr, rtf, word, ppt, as well as many other eReader formats" O wait a minute...they didn't say that...

You do understand, that now you will have to sell these readers at the mentioned price...

AprilHare · 07-02-2009, 02:45 AM

The could have me with A4+PDF+ePub+$0...

(the GFC hasn't been kind to me)

kaas · 07-02-2009, 03:30 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by AprilHare

(the GFC hasn't been kind to me)

sorry to hear that...

07-01-2009, 05:25 PM	#1
kaas Muncher of ebooks Posts: 312 Karma: 6423 Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Fürth, Germany Device: Pocketbook 360	Bridgestone set to make major push into e-paper business from endgadget.com: http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/01/b...aper-business/ Bridgestone's already showed off some fairly impressive e-paper displays, and gone into mass production with displays for inventory tags and whatnot, but it now looks like the company is now set to make its biggest push into the market yet. According to Tech-On, Bridgestone will be announcing details of its plans in July or August, but it appears that the announcement will concern e-paper displays for e-book readers, at least one of which will be A4 in size. That particular screen was making the rounds of exhibitions back in April, and makes use of the company's proprietary "electron powder and granular material" which, among other things, lets the screen rewrite in just 0.8 seconds. Of course, there's no word on any actual devices using the e-paper just yet, but we're hoping that'll be among the details announced in the next month or so. the more the merrier, I say cheers, kaas

07-01-2009, 09:00 PM	#6
jgray Fanatic Posts: 549 Karma: 2928497 Join Date: Mar 2008 Device: Clara 2E & Sage	Electron powder and granular material Oh wow! Powdered electrons. Just add water The more display technologies, the better. Choice is good. Last edited by jgray; 07-02-2009 at 12:04 AM.

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AprilHare Wizard Posts: 2,981 Karma: 11862367 Join Date: Apr 2008 Device: Sony Reader PRS-T2	Who knew tyres and e-book displays would come together in this way?

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fugazied Wizard Posts: 1,305 Karma: 1958 Join Date: Jan 2009 Device: iPod Touch	The black is probably old tyres, ground up and placed inside the device 0.8 seems like a LONG time, but I suppose the quality of these devices is akin to real paper, so no eyestrain and perfect to read the newspaper on. Some people hate staring at LCDs for long hours..

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