It would appear that transparent displays aren’t the only cool thing at the Flat Panel Display show in Yokohama City, Japan. Electronics giant Samsung put a 10.1 inch electronic paper on display.

This e-paper device is 0.7mm thick, and has a pixel count of 450 x 600. Granted, the contrast ratio is a weak 10:1, but Samsung doesn’t intend to have it on the market until one to two years from now.

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Bridgestone has been working on a new electronic paper display technology and it has delivered it. Besides all that color the new e-paper has one more useful feature, support for pen input. That’s right, you will be able to use a pen and play with it as much as you want.

The display itself is made from the Bridgestone QR-LPD electronic powder, the Wacom electromagnetic induction tablet and a color filter. Its refresh speed is what makes pen input possible. The refresh rate is 0.8 seconds compared to 15 seconds on the previous model. The device is not available yet and there’s no price for it yet. You know how it works…

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How will the future touchscreen look like? What about the future paper? HP has an idea about that and more than that, it has a prototype. The e-paper display is said to use less power than the displays available today and, even better, it’s unbreakable. We don’t know when this screen will arrive but we’re sure anxious about using one. HP will surely continue its work with the Arizona State Flexible Display Center to improve the existing prototype.

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Integral Displays has introduced its new line of e-paper displays — small pieces of e-paper meant for use in commerce. The models are: ICL-12864L (measuring 58 × 29mm and 128 ×64 pixels), ICL-12864L (measuring 45 × 22mm and 128 × 64 pixels, and ICL-6117 (measuring 36 × 10mm and 61 × 17 pixels). The first two models were to meant to be used as electronic tags with the ICL-12864M producing finer images compared to the ICL-12864L model. The ICL-6117 e-paper model, on the other hand, is meant for names tags and RFID tags (tags which contain the distribution history of products. These e-paper displays will sell for US$19.9-29.8 per unit (and how small that unit is!) as long you buy in bunches of 100.

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