iRex Technologies BV, a spin-off from Royal Philips Electronics, has announced an electronic paper application that offers the first complete solution for portable electronic reading and writing.
The Iliad is an electronic reader that combines a electronic paper display with wireless networking and touchscreen technologies. This delivers easy to read, low-power advantages of electronic paper with the capacity to get content from various sources, as well as the ability to capture user input.
The 8.1-inch display with 16 grey levels, ensures excellent legibility both indoors and outdoors while still offering a thin, lightweight device for easy portability, claims the company The user interface is based on traditional reading principles, which should mean it is easy to apply to professional and leisure uses.
Granted, ePaper has nowhere near the refresh rate you find on today’s LCD displays, but if you’re reading the news or your favourite eBook, who cares? The Iliad displays 8.1-inches of ePaper goodness at a native resolution of 1024x768 pixels, maintaining 160dpi fidelity.
As far as processing power, it integrates a 400MHz Xscale and 64MB of RAM. Storage comes in the form of 224MB of flash, as well as Compact Flash and Secure Digital expansion slots, and a spot for USB flash drives. The gadget supports plain text, XHTML and PDF files.
‘Our solution is the first to offer content-suppliers such a fast, comfortable, secure and interactive opportunity to distribute their content to their users,’ explains Hans Brons, CEO of iRex Technologies.
‘We focus explicitly on B2B partners: for news, educational and professional publishers this means delivering to their audience, regardless of location, with the immediacy of the Internet and the ease and flexibility of paper-based reading. The benefits are not just in user satisfaction. The always up-to-date information and low cost structure should make it easier to reach and even define new markets.’
The electronic reader device will be available for distribution to business partners by
April 2006. There was no pricing details at the time of writing. More information can be found here.
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