I just spotted this NZ$398 ‘iPad killer’ on the d-Shop.co.nz site. There are an increasing number of these low cost Android tablets coming onto the market. What caught my eye about this one was the very enthusiastic review by d-Shop.co.nz owner Don Hill. Okay, you can get your top-end Samsungs, iPads, Blackberry tablets and countless [...]

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One of the areas we’ve been seeing a lot of innovation this year is screen technologies. It’s a key area of development for e-reading and the good news is that it’s now becoming an increasingly important issue for mainstream users as computing goes mobile. In the e-reading space, the standard today is e-Ink which powers [...]

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Is everyone making an ebook reader? Here’s a round-up of some interesting stuff from the last day or so. By the way, after you’ve checked out this latest round of e-reader news, you might want to pop across to the poll running on the Digital Publishing Forum website. It asks, “What is the most likely [...]

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Bridgestone, better known for its tyres, has developed a colour e-paper display technology and evidently it’s pretty impressive, even at this early stage in its development. The company is initially aiming it at more mundane applications such as price tags in supermarkets and other distribution and logistics applications. But it expects its technology, called QR-LPD, [...]

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Fujitsu has beaten the pack to announce the first commercially available colour ebook reader, the oddly-named FLEPia. The 8″ / 20cm device sports a 260,000 colour e-paper display built using Fujitsu’s own patented FLEPia screen technology and has an impressive 40 hour battery life with continuous use or 2400 page turns. It’s well-featured, coming with [...]

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