Electronic paper

TCL Nxtpaper 3.0 14 Pro tablet.Image: TCLAt its CES press conference today, TCL announced quite a few things but seemed most proud of the Nxtpaper 3.0 display technology. The company believes it could be a game-changer. Nxtpaper is a kind of wellness display technology that looks and feels like paper more than a harsh, glaring, harmful screen.Samsung Shows Off First LaserSlim OLED TVAccording to TCL, 70% of us spend more than five hours a day looking at screens. That leads to considerable eye strain and fatigue. The…

Although mostly relegated to e-readers, e-notes, and price tags at your local grocery store, there are some other novel users for E Ink displays. Want to display art on your walls without committing to just a single artist?That’s how Project E Ink is using the display technology, but instead of putting renaissance masterpieces on a wall, it turns front page news into artwork.It's Magic: LG's Rollable OLED TVIf the idea sounds vaguely familiar, it’s because it was inspired by Max Braun, a Google engineer who, back in…

We’ve heard about the benefits of reflective electronic paper displays time and again, so why aren’t there E Ink monitors for those who spend all their time on a computer reading, writing, or crunching numbers? The answer is that there are E Ink computer displays, but they come with a lot of trade-offs. Philips’ new solution is a split screen monitor that puts both a black-and-white E Ink panel and a full-color LCDon your desk.It's Magic: LG's Rollable OLED TVElectronic paper displays are so easy on the eyes because they…

Onyx is one of the few brands that seem bullish about the potential of e-ink screens, and it makes fairly impressive products while at it. I recently got my hands on the Onyx Boox Tab Ultra with a monochrome e-ink display and was pleasantly surprised by its unique appeal. Now, the company is taking a big leap with a new variant that replaces the black and white screen with a full-color e-ink panel on its latest tablet — something the Kindle has never been able to achieve. Say hello to the Onyx Boox Tab Ultra C, an…

With the first E Ink devices having debuted almost two decades ago, it’s been a long road transitioning the technology from black and white to color. But yesterday, E Ink revealed some tantalizing details on its latest color electronic paper panels, Spectra 6, with color reproduction that looks almost as good as what you can get in LCDs.It's Magic: LG's Rollable OLED TVColor e-paper has actually been around for quite some time, but the earliest versions could only display a very limited palette of solid colors and were…

When it first debuted back in 2021, our biggest complaint about Kobo’s first digital notepad, the Elipsa, was a lack of color temperature adjustments for its electronic paper screen. With the new Elipsa 2E, Kobo has remedied that, but are minor improvements to its e-note enough to help it take on both reMarkable and Amazon now that the competition has stepped up?It's Magic: LG's Rollable OLED TVAlthough the original Elipsa didn’t offer quite as polished a pen-on-paper experience as the reMarkable 2, it had a few…

Pop quiz: which big company was the first to popularize electronic paper e-readers with consumers by making it easy to find and load ebooks and other digital documents? If you answered Amazon, we’ll see you in summer school, because Sony’s e-readers outdated the Kindle by years. Unfortunately,the company will soon be out of that business entirely as it plans to finally shut down its Reader desktop software as well.Although the Rocket eBook and the Sony Data Discman were handheld devices created for the sole purpose of…

Long a staple technology of electronic book readers, electronic paper is finally starting to expand its reach, finding its way into tablets, watches, and even cars, with a recent collaboration at CES between E Ink and BMW. But CES also saw the reveal of an even stranger device based on electronic paper: a wearable device called the Sol Reader that’s an e-reader you can wear on your face.Although certain technical limitations prevent electronic paperfrom being used as a universal replacement for LCDs and OLEDs—you…

Photo: Andrew Liszewski | GizmodoDespite the growing popularity of e-note digital notepads over the past few years, the Kindle Scribe is Amazon’s first E Ink device with stylus support for annotating documents and taking notes. But instead of pulling ahead of the competition with an e-note device packed full of innovative features and functionality, the Kindle Scribe feels more like Amazon making a timid first step into unfamiliar territory.Although it wasn’t the first E Ink device to work with a stylus, the original…

Although E Ink’s electronic paper technology thrives on devices like e-readers and e-notes, it’s less ideal for devices designed for far more than just reading and note-taking. So while Dasung’s new Link might look like a phone, it’s actually a pocket-friendly E Ink screen that’s designed to occasionally connect to a user’s more capable smartphone.In recent years, with the arrival of electronic paper screens that can display full color text and images, we’ve seen a handful of companies release E Ink-based smartphones…