World’s First Color E-Paper With Video Functionality

The overwhelming response to Amazon’s e-reader collection has given birth to many e-paper inventions. E-paper devices such as Mirasol has succeeded in grabbing attention of many readers world-wide by providing attractive styled graphics and UI to display static content. But, to think of it as a flamboyant display device with video playing functions makes it more even more interesting to take hold of such master piece of technology.

Vivit, an e-paper company has recently come up with this brilliant idea of combining the textual content and video function in one device. The prototype has been displayed in a trade show happened in Japan recently this week and has claimed to be the first video enabled e-paper device. The new invention included a 6-inch display capable of playing a colored video of an ice thickness map. Being the first attempt to actually build up this idea, the output was not as dynamic as one can expect on a traditional LCD device but it wasn’t a bad effort at all. The colors were solid and clear enough to be judged with by a common sighted person.

However, the technical specs of this latest e-paper have been still kept as a mystery for viewers and it is hard to make any judgments on its functionality as more than just an e-reader until it is fully implemented and released for the public. All in all, whatever functions are going to be offered by this new technology, the theme is highly anticipated to be valued by the e-reader fans.