Ever since the kindle launched to great success and popularity across the pond UK ebook lovers have been salivating at the prospect of being able to get into the Kindle experience on our shores and asking when will it hit the UK?
At first glance you would think it would be here already – most mainstream [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The Sony PRS-505 supersedes the PRS-500 and there have been some welcomed changes implemented. On an aesthetic level the 505 offers more choices in case colour. The higher contrast screen is whiter for more comfortable reading and the images can be enjoyed in better quality with 8 versus 4 grey scales. The PRS-505 can connect [...]
Released in October 2007, the Bookeen Cybook Gen 3 is a solid performer amongst the ebook readers. Yes, some of the newer Kindles and flashy ‘iPoddy’ gadgets have all the flashy looks but the Gen 3 Cybook from Bookeen has an understated confidence that you’ll be happy you bought into. Bookeen is a dedicated main [...]
Netronix have announced they will be producing 2 new ebook readers in the shape of the 6″ EB-100 and 9.7″ EB-300. Also promised are touchscreen, 802.11g wifi, sd card slot, pdf support as well as RTF, TXT, HTML, MP3 and AACThey are listings specifications as 5,000 and 8,000 page turns on a single charge [...]
Ebooks have never managed to grab the attention and admiration of the public in the same way as mp3’s and to some extent video downloads have. Could the Amazon Kindle be the killer device that puts ebooks mainstream? Obviously here at thinkeink we love all things using eink tech – especially ebook readers but [...]
The Jumpdrive Mercury from Lexar is one of the first usb flash drives to incorporate eink technology – the drive has a handy eink display to show capacity used and how much is remaining. Okay so it may not be the most interesting eink product ever but it is handy functionality to have.
The high [...]
w more details about that E Ink wristwatch from Seiko Epson are coming in from Japan. The watch will be called the “Seiko Spectrum,” and it’s set to be released on January 27, 2006 in Japan. Save your money for this one — pricing is set at 262,500 yen, or around $2,200 USD. Or just, [...]