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eBook Readers, Hardware
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Join Date: Oct 2002
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I want one. Why does a good one not exist?
I'm imagining a solid state device, about 100mm x 150mm x 10mm, no extraneous buttons, just a touch screen display, right to the edge of the device. Said display is OLED, so no need for a backlight. Black text on a white page is all I want. Long battery life, hard wearing, scratch proof...
A simple, electronic book. No stupid email or web browsing or mobile phone or MP3 player "capabilities." Just a beautifully simple, clean slate, that displays text not as if it were a screen but as if the text were part of the surface. (I'm pretty sure this can be done with OLEDs, or was that electronic paper? I don't know...)
I could go on and on, but all I really want to know is whether something like this already exists / is in the making.
Does anyone know?
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Join Date: Nov 2001
Location: SoCal
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I think OLEDs have to actually be produced as a commercial product by someone first.
Correct me if I am wrong, but I don't think an OLED has been put into a monitor, PDA, or any other device right now in the consumer market. I think all that has been done with OLEDs right now is talk. Seems like they have them on Star Trek: Enterprise though, I saw Trip holding one in an episode last week, so atleast they are coming!
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Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: Durham, NC
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Originally posted by iDriveX:
I think OLEDs have to actually be produced as a commercial product by someone first.
Correct me if I am wrong, but I don't think an OLED has been put into a monitor, PDA, or any other device right now in the consumer market. I think all that has been done with OLEDs right now is talk. Seems like they have them on Star Trek: Enterprise though, I saw Trip holding one in an episode last week, so atleast they are coming!
I forget the model number at the moment but there's a Kodak digital camera with and OLED screen. The guy over at the Digital Camera Resource Page went ga-ga over it (the screen at least, if not the camera), calling it gorgeous..
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Join Date: Oct 2002
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Okay, since no-one seems to know anything about the readers themselves, I guess I'll have to make one myself. So, to get my foot in the door as it were, I'm looking to buy old technology cheap, so that I might play a bit, poke around, see what needs doing, before deciding what to do next.
Recommend me old tech. that I can buy on eBay for cheap. Handsrping Visors? Old Palm devices? More? What's the state of play for alternative operating systems on these things? What should I know? Where should I go to know these things?
All advice welcome,
Simon
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