Making Disposable Dynamic Displays With Electronic Ink on Real Paper | Gadget Lab. Engineers at the University of Cincinnati have shown that under the right conditions, ordinary paper can be as dynamic as any screen. “Nothing looks better than paper for reading,” says research leader Andrew Steckl. “We hope to have something that would actually look like paper but behave like a computer monitor in terms of its ability to store information.
We would have something that is very cheap, very fast, full-color and at the end of the day or the end of the week, you could pitch it into the trash.” Steckl’s e-paper uses electrowetting — moving colored pigments from pixel to pixel with electronic charges — on a paper substrate. Electrowetting offers color, fast response times and video capability that current E Ink electrophoretic screens can’t match, but with similarly low power consumption. Companies like Liquavista and Plastic Logic have prototype color e-readers that use this technology, but apply the electrowetting chemicals to a sheet of glass. See Also: Making Disposable Dynamic Displays With Electronic Ink on Real Paper | Gadget Lab. Making Disposable Dynamic Displays With Electronic Ink on Real Paper | Gadget Lab.
Explore tags on Delicious. 2009 librarian eBook survey. Will iPad transform Stanford's med school? The new class of medical students is being weaned away from pencil and paper to digital learning Norbert von der Groeben First-year medical students Jonathan Dunlap, Lizzy George and Stacie Vilendrer learn how to use their new iPads for lectures and studying, as part of a training for the new class that the School of Medicine provided on Aug. 20. Steven Sloan pointed to his laptop screen, which displayed a tiny diagram of a molecular structure that he needed to memorize for his molecular foundations of medicine class. He was hanging out in the student lounge along with several other Stanford medical students a few weeks after the start of the new school year. “You can’t even see that,” said Sloan, a University of Miami graduate, who squinted at the image on his computer screen.
Sloan is one of the 91 medical and master’s of medicine students who began class Aug. 23 with school-provided iPads for the first time. Jamie Tsui/Stanford EdTech “It will be an interesting experiment,” he said. Moving Tales - Bringing Stories to Life on your iPad. Open Publishing Lab | Page2Pub. Cooliris Releases a Wikipedia Magazine Experience for iPad. By Roberto | July 27, 2010 | 1 comment Since the iPad’s launch back in April, many have experienced the power of Apple’s tablet as a work companion, as a reading and editing tool, and as a device that revolutionized the way you discover, view, share and consume all kinds of media. The iPad has simply captivated the consumer market. It has created high expectations for any future mobile gadgets and any applications that get launched into the Apple App Store. Recognizing the high expectations from the consumer market, Cooliris , today has announced the release of their iPad app called Discover .
The Discover app leverages the power of the iPad to deliver an enjoyable experience for Wikipedia’s vast collection of articles. Wikipedia is a tremendous tool for learning and searching for information. However, Cooliris solves that with their Discover app. We had a chance to play with the Discover app. Discover Application Highlights. Constellation - Home. Amazon Media Room:News Release. SEATTLE, Oct 12, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) --(NASDAQ:AMZN)--Less than 10,000 words or more than 50,000: that is the choice writers have generally faced for more than a century--works either had to be short enough for a magazine article or long enough to deliver the "heft" required for book marketing and distribution.
But in many cases, 10,000 to 30,000 words (roughly 30 to 90 pages) might be the perfect, natural length to lay out a single killer idea, well researched, well argued and well illustrated--whether it's a business lesson, a political point of view, a scientific argument, or a beautifully crafted essay on a current event. Today, Amazon is announcing that it will launch "Kindle Singles"--Kindle books that are twice the length of a New Yorker feature or as much as a few chapters of a typical book. Kindle Singles will have their own section in the Kindle Store and be priced much less than a typical book. About Amazon Amazon.com, Inc. Forward-Looking Statements SOURCE: Amazon.com, Inc.