Anyone have experience with e-paper?

[m1ke dot m477hewz at gmai]

I'm designing a portable ebook reader/web browser, and I'd like to use
the new "e-paper" I've heard so much hype about. Does anyone have
experience with this stuff? What type of interface does it use? Is
there a good place to get small amounts of it? I saw one company that
sells an evaluation kit for $90, can I get just the paper itself? How
flexible is it? How fast does it change color? Are there any pitfalls
to it's use (besides it being monochrome)? If I mount a touch panel
over it, would it be damaged by stylus pressure? How many DPI?
I've searched and searched, but all I get is fluffy "e-ink is the wave
of the future!!!11!one!!" articles.

Thanks,
Mike Matthews

 

[KoKlust]

I'm designing a portable ebook reader/web browser, and I'd like to use
the new "e-paper" I've heard so much hype about. Does anyone have
experience with this stuff? What type of interface does it use? Is
there a good place to get small amounts of it? I saw one company that
sells an evaluation kit for $90, can I get just the paper itself? How
flexible is it? How fast does it change color? Are there any pitfalls
to it's use (besides it being monochrome)? If I mount a touch panel
over it, would it be damaged by stylus pressure? How many DPI?
I've searched and searched, but all I get is fluffy "e-ink is the wave
of the future!!!11!one!!" articles.

Contact e-ink http://www.eink.com/cs/index.html .
They say they're leading ;-) .

Philips agree, they have a knowledge transfer agreement with e-ink.

Good luck,

Marco

 

[Ruediger]

m1ke dot m477hewz at gmail dot com wrote:

I'm designing a portable ebook reader/web browser, and I'd like to use
the new "e-paper" I've heard so much hype about. Does anyone have
experience with this stuff? What type of interface does it use? Is
there a good place to get small amounts of it? I saw one company that
sells an evaluation kit for $90, can I get just the paper itself? How
flexible is it? How fast does it change color? Are there any pitfalls
to it's use (besides it being monochrome)? If I mount a touch panel
over it, would it be damaged by stylus pressure? How many DPI?
I've searched and searched, but all I get is fluffy "e-ink is the wave
of the future!!!11!one!!" articles.

Thanks,
Mike Matthews

I work at the Wearlab in Bremen ( www.wearlab.de ) and we had tried epaper -
give it two more years at least until it's okay for the market, for our
experiences this spring were that it is to fragile and too difficult to
drive. Our decision was for semi-flexible organic displays ( oled, organid
LED ). The unit we have is driven exactly like a regular TFT, but is just
2mm thick and as bendable as a springsteel foil - pitily it is prone to
shocks on its edges for reasons beyond my understanding.
--
Sincerely

Ruediger