E-Ink Holdings, the brains behind the Amazon Kindle display tech, has revealed a new technique for creating updatable digital displays on cloth, essentially E-Ink cloth. It could point to a future filled with cool ultra-customisable t-shirts or more depressingly ad banners on every bosom in town. Get into the details after the jump…
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Welcome the NoteSlate to the growing tablet tussle! Unlike tablets like the Motorola Xoom and, of course, the imminent iPad 2, the NoteSlate is not about having lots of features, it’s about having very few. The makers of NoteSlate are pitching it as an e-ink alternative to a traditional pad and pen. The NoteSlate has one feature – you write on the screen with a stylus in one colour and can save your notes and drawings or send them via email. Curious…
Since Apple put Mac vs PC out to pasture, allowing Mitchell and Webb to go back to making sketch shows that are infinitely less funny than Peep Show and Justin Long to pop up in irksome romantic comedies with Cameron Diaz, there’s been a gap in the market. Thank the gods of advertising then that Amazon has introduced iPad guy and his smug, expensive-sunnies-wearing nemesis Kindle Girl. Once again gadget warfare has a face but does Amazon have the firepower to take on the iPad?
Remember the Samsung E6 ebook reader we spotted way back at CES in January? Well, Samsung has confirmed that the Samsung SNE-60 ebook reader is coming to the UK. That could be good news for the iPad-phobic or anyone looking to replace their Amazon Kindle…
NTT DoCoMo are of the opinion that your mobile phone is lacking a certain something – and that something is a flute. Yes, you read that correctly. The Japanese mobile giant has a set of prototype add-ons for its mobile phones that are, umm, different.
UPDATE: Whoops! It seems MOTO Development Group isn’t the same company as Motorola. See the corrections below.
MOTO Development Group has shown off an e-reader running Android. Could we be witnessing a real Kindle killer in the making? See for yourself in the video after the break.
What do Microsoft product designers do on their day off? Why, they dream up concepts like this sleek mobile phone with an E-ink display.
Electronic ink is about to hit the big time, and the news stand. Esquire’s planning to embed an e-ink panel in the cover of its September issue, bringing digital printing to a newsagent near you.