Listening to: BBC Radio 1

E Ink have released a dev
kit! Must save my pennies.

Listening to: November Has Come - Gorillaz

There seems to be a bit of a baby boom in my circle of friends… this means the missus
is buying baby stuff. While pondering the rather alien world of baby toys and, simultaneously,
the recent success of the Polymer Vision team
I came across the idea of Story Blinds.

Imagine if you scaled the Readius up
to the size of the roller blind and you hung them in a child’s room. The blind could
then be an imaging surface upon which you could display views of a fantastical world.
The blind would cease to simply close out the outside world and would start to be
a window on whole set of new worlds. All the blinds in the room could be networked
together so they all displayed a set of consistent images.

Listening to: Ray Nagin

Congrats to Karl and his team on the release of the READIUS:

The Readius is the world’s first prototype of a functional electronic-document
reader that can unroll its display to a scale larger than the device itself. With
four gray levels, the monochrome, 5-inch QVGA (320 pixels x 240 pixels) display provides
paper-like viewing comfort with a high contrast ratio for reading-intensive applications,
including text, graphics, and electronic maps. Using a bi-stable electrophoretic display
effect from E Ink Corp., the display consumes little power and is easy to read, even
in bright daylight. Once the user has finished reading, the display can be rolled
back into the pocket-size (100 mm x 60 mm x 20 mm) device.

Based on Philips Polymer Vision’s PV-QML5 rollable display reference design, the
Readius was created in order to demonstrate the viability of the rollable-display
concept in mobile applications and to gain customer feedback at the IFA 2005.

Listening to: not too sure… this was computer generated.

Size
Comparison

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The Librie next to my iPod.