Saturday, July 31st, 2010

What do we have here? Something that looks like a family of iPods at first glance. Well that seems to be the way the Cool-er ebook reader is being positioned in the market. Funky colours, smooth curves and a ‘cool’ name. A ebook reader with some street cred perhaps.
The Cool-er is a pretty nice device [...]

While most of us think of eink displays as being suitable for reading or simple uses, display company Pixel Qi had different ideas with a recent demonstration at Computex.

The “3qi” display technology is an eInk laptop screen offering  three displays, a low power black and white one for reading documents, and two colour modes, indoor [...]

Well it has to be said. Amazon made some strange decisions and choices in their first generation ebook reader. However, we can forgive and forget as we welcome into the fold of ebook readers – the Amazon Kindle 2.  This sleeker, more attractive device does actually highlight some of the design flaws with the original [...]

A year after Sony’s successful launch of the PRS-505 reader, here we have their new touch screen reader in the PRS-700.  Whilst a touch screen won’t be to everyone’s likening, and so won’t replace the 505 in all cases, the improved and additional features are very attractive.
Obviously the impressive touch screen replaces many of the [...]

iRex Technologies have announced new progress in their pipeline ebook reader that promises high quality, full colour reading and writing capabilities. Expected to launch in 2011, this news supports iRex’s position as a dedicated innovator in the field of digital ereaders following on from the iRex Digital Reader 1000, with [...]