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on: May 10, 2007, 19:15:36 PM
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=39533

http://www.innos.co.uk/news35.asp

How long before we have the minority report style news papers, walk into shop with it, pay 30p, plug in, updated news, wifi - updates, cant wait

From not able to to manufacture it actually has come on really quickly this tech and apparently people already have colour working
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Reply #1 on: May 10, 2007, 19:24:19 PM




Looks good!
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Reply #2 on: May 10, 2007, 19:26:24 PM
http://www.plasticlogic.com/

Spin off company from our physics department, theyve starting production next year.  Look at their list of investors, serious business  :shock:

They still work better when you put the silicon back in though :D
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Reply #3 on: May 10, 2007, 19:35:34 PM
They are cool but the most interesting thing for me in technology now is that sumbling block

They will sit around with a concept for some technology and talk about it and try for ages but it is not there, but then someone will do it on a really crap looking version, you think "wow cool tech, crap, seems years away though" after you seen it on 2morows world or gadget show etc, which a while ago it would be the case but now its like

"well we can do it now but not very good give us a few months or a year"

Then bang - like this here your in with loads of people able to do it and with good examples and quality.
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Reply #4 on: May 10, 2007, 19:38:19 PM
Its not a stumbling block, its called research   :lol:  
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Reply #5 on: May 10, 2007, 19:53:42 PM
wow is it 2002 again?
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Reply #6 on: May 10, 2007, 22:19:36 PM
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wow is it 2002 again?


Not got the point have you ^^ 2002 - talk, concepts virtual images and models of them
Now - Full real mass production time
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Reply #7 on: May 11, 2007, 01:38:28 AM
http://www.eink.com/press/releases/pr97.html

The displays are bistable, meaning they only use power when an image is changed.
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The displays are bistable, meaning they only use power when an image is changed.


http://66.102.9.104/search?q=cache:xFqux1XK02UJ:www.ifa-show.com/2005/philips_review/101_philips_e-reader.html+rollable+displays+battery&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=5

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The battery will keep up for 10 to 30 hours. Philips managed to reduce the power consumption for the display to almost zero, that is 0%


I was wondering how they are powered looks like a battery which by the looks of it could last a long time!
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Reply #8 on: May 11, 2007, 01:44:56 AM
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http://www.eink.com/press/releases/pr97.html

The displays are bistable, meaning they only use power when an image is changed.
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The displays are bistable, meaning they only use power when an image is changed.


http://66.102.9.104/search?q=cache:xFqux1XK02UJ:www.ifa-show.com/2005/philips_review/101_philips_e-reader.html+rollable+displays+battery&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=5

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The battery will keep up for 10 to 30 hours. Philips managed to reduce the power consumption for the display to almost zero, that is 0%


I was wondering how they are powered looks like a battery which by the looks of it could last a long time!


I know its a crap and stupidly basic way of saying it but its basically a lot of balls with colour on, once you used power to get them in position you need next to nothing to keep them their, its just the brightness of it really which again from other tech is getting better.

The thing that needs to come along for these to be super useful with no sizable device on them and controlling them (although a laptop with a fold out 20inch screen would be amazing (you can see it now, laptop, little stand like a projector stand and pull the screen out, lol)) is as you point out the battery, decent batteries that are small (take the 360, not there yet, lol)
Power does need a bit of a re-think tbh, but anyone once you got that and the control system small - very sci fi.

Id stab at saying 10 years for really useful digital paper and about 5 for some use.
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