{"id":104,"date":"2004-03-25T19:24:34","date_gmt":"2004-03-25T19:24:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/archives\/104"},"modified":"2004-03-25T19:24:34","modified_gmt":"2004-03-25T19:24:34","slug":"e-ink-launching-book-reader-w-sony-philips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/archives\/104","title":{"rendered":"E Ink launching book reader w\/Sony &#038; Philips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eink.com\/news\/images\/SONY_Reader_1000EP.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" alt=\"Sony LIBRI\u00e9\" src=\"http:\/\/docbug.com\/blog\/supplemental\/104\/sony-librie.jpg\" \/><\/a>  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eink.com\/\">E Ink<\/a> just <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eink.com\/news\/releases\/pr71.html\">announced<\/a> the first consumer device to use their Electronic Paper technology: the Sony <em>LIBRI\u00e9<\/em> e-Book reader. Six-inch diagonal display, 170ppi, 4 shades gray reflective screen with an almost 180-degree viewing angle, weighing around 300g with four AAA batteries.  Even better than the viewing angle is the battery life: unlike LCDs, electronic paper takes power to modify a screen, but not to maintain a static display. Sony&#8217;s tests show you can read around 10,000 pages on four AAA Alkaline batteries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"references\">References<\/p>\n<ul class=\"references\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eink.com\/news\/releases\/pr70.html\">First-Generation Electronic Paper Display From Philips, Sony And E Ink To Be Used In New Electronic Reading Device<\/a> (E Ink Press Release, 24 March 2004)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eink.com\/news\/releases\/pr71.html\">E Ink&#8217;s Electronic Paper Commercialized<\/a> (E Ink Press Release, 24 March 2004)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\/article.pl?sid=04\/03\/24\/1850237&#038;mode=thread&#038;tid=126&#038;tid=137&#038;tid=184&#038;tid=188&#038;tid=192\">Sony To Launch E Ink-based eBook In April<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.monkey.org\/~timothy\/\">Timothy Lord<\/a>, Slashdot, 24 March 2004)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eink.com\/news\/images\/SONY_Reader_1000EP.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" alt=\"Sony LIBRI\u00e9\" src=\"http:\/\/docbug.com\/blog\/supplemental\/104\/sony-librie.jpg\" \/><\/a>  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eink.com\/\">E Ink<\/a> just <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eink.com\/news\/releases\/pr71.html\">announced<\/a> the first consumer device to use their Electronic Paper technology: the Sony <em>LIBRI\u00e9<\/em> e-Book reader. Six-inch diagonal display, 170ppi, 4 shades gray reflective screen with an almost 180-degree viewing angle, weighing around 300g with four AAA batteries.  Even better than the viewing angle is the battery life: unlike LCDs, electronic paper takes power to modify a screen, but not to maintain a static display. Sony&#8217;s tests show you can read around 10,000 pages on four AAA Alkaline batteries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"references\">References<\/p>\n<ul class=\"references\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eink.com\/news\/releases\/pr70.html\">First-Generation Electronic Paper Display From Philips, Sony And E Ink To Be Used In New Electronic Reading Device<\/a> (E Ink Press Release, 24 March 2004)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eink.com\/news\/releases\/pr71.html\">E Ink&#8217;s Electronic Paper Commercialized<\/a> (E Ink Press Release, 24 March 2004)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\/article.pl?sid=04\/03\/24\/1850237&#038;mode=thread&#038;tid=126&#038;tid=137&#038;tid=184&#038;tid=188&#038;tid=192\">Sony To Launch E Ink-based eBook In April<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.monkey.org\/~timothy\/\">Timothy Lord<\/a>, Slashdot, 24 March 2004)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}