The display will use E Inks latest Pearl EPD with a color filter. The Fable will be a sort of iPad-Kindle hybrid and run on Google’s Android mobile operating system. E Ink says that Hanvon has adopted their color EPD, and will launch the first e-readers that use it in 4Q 2010. In other e-book news, the Globe’s Hiawatha Bray reports on a new partnership between a Concord company and Boston publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt to sell color e-readers for children. But that uses liquid crystals, not E Ink. No word yet on when the tech might be available in the United States.Ī new version of the Barnes & Noble e-reader, Nook, will soon be available in color. Colors won’t pop like they do on an iPad or your flat TV, but the battery life remains the same - measured in weeks, not hours. The technology uses the same electirifed pigments but adds a color filter. The Hanvon e-reader, made in Beijing, will be the first color E Ink device, the New York Times reports. A reader “flips” a page and the pigments are physically rearranged to form a new image. (Trying to read on an iPad at high noon is an exercise in futility.) But E Ink screens have been limited to shades of gray, until now.įirst, a quick primer on how E Ink works: Black and white pigments embedded in the screen are electrified. (Martouf via Wikimedia Commons)Į Ink text is highly legible, even in bright sunlight. E Ink is wicked legible, even in direct sunlight.
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