Eink Active Matrix EPD Prototype Kit Available … price tag $3,000
December 10th, 2005 by Scott Janousek
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e-ink has released a developers kit .
I wonder if Adobe is looking at this yet? As one of their legacy philosophies is … “if there is a screen, Flash should be on it”. Obviously, the display is very limited at this point ( no color, bad pixel density, refresh rate, etc ) … 12/10/2005 sj - actually, I take the “no color” back … I guess they have yet another prototype COLOR display that is in the works. 
… they also have actually products on marketing using e-ink … a seiko watch and sony librie. I had seen the watch somewhere before … probably wired. I think it was being sold in Japan.
But, as the technology matures … can you imagine a coat that runs flash? or a reusable newspaper that is animated? or a cell phone that is part of your shirt? Plenty of “mobile” applications for animated print & graphics using eink.
I know it sounds far fetched now …. maybe we’ll see a “Flash-Ink player” down the road? Who knows.
For now, we all love color, high def screens and our desktop Flash and Flash Lite players.
eink devkit:
The protoyping kit is based around the Gumstix single-board computer, which combines a 400 MHz Intel XScale® PXA255 processor with a Bluetooth transceiver, USB, a serial port and an MMC card reader. For mobile device prototyping, the kit also includes two Li-ion batteries with a total capacity of over 4000 mW-h, and an integrated battery charger.
Linux, the popular open-source operating system, comes pre-installed on the Gumstix board. E Ink also supplies open-source software display drivers and sample applications. Developers will have the ability to download the full source code for the operating system, drivers and applications, and to write and compile new applications using the gcc development environment and cross-compiler, included in the kit package.
The kit comes pre-configured to operate as a simple electronic book reader. Out of the box, users can download page images from their PC to the included MMC card and view them on the display with no further programming or assembly.
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