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First Look at the Onyx Boox Poke2 Color (video)

24 April, 202024 April, 2020e-Reading Hardware2 Comments

When Onyx announced their new color ereader earlier this week, all they gave us was a single graphic. I can now report that the new device...

A Dozen Words That Derive From Numbers (video)

11 March, 202011 March, 2020Language4 Comments

I was working on making an infographic on words that derive from numbers when I found the following video. (I was planning to crib from it,...

The Lost Art of Paste-Up (video)

16 October, 201917 October, 2019Book Culture, Books as Art5 Comments

Back before we used computers to lay out the text of a book, magazine, or newspaper, publishers used various methods to manually lay out text before...

The Eewrite Epad X from Wisky Features Dual 9.7″ E-ink and LCD Screens (video)

8 May, 20198 May, 2019e-Reading Hardware2 Comments

Ever since the Entourage Edge was canceled, numerous companies have shown off designs for dual-screen tablets that combined an E-ink and LCD screen (Amazon even filed...

What If English Were Phonetically Consistent? (video)

20 February, 201920 February, 2019Language3 Comments

English is a language that doesn’t just borrow words, it follows other languages down dark alleys, clubs them over the head, and rifles through their pockets...

Samsung Veiled a Folding Smartphone (video)

8 November, 20188 November, 2018e-Reading HardwareLeave a comment

Rumors have been circulating for several years now that Samsung was working on a folding smartphone, but up until yesterday all we had were rumors. Now...

Boyue Likebook Mimas Has a 10.3″ Screen (video)

6 November, 20186 November, 2018e-Reading Hardware5 Comments

The next ereader from Boyue is going to have a screen the same size as the Sony Digital Paper and the Remarkable. The Likebook Mimas (model...

Onyx Boox Poke and Boox Poke Pro (video)

25 October, 201825 October, 2018e-Reading Hardware5 Comments

The Chinese ereader maker Onyx has a couple new 6″ devices due out later this year. The Onyx Boox Poke is a more basic model running Android...

Onyx Youngy Boox Sports a 10.7″ Color E-ink Screen

15 October, 201815 October, 2018e-Reading Hardware3 Comments

With tablets being cheaper and offering better color and decent battery life, color-E-ink is a dead duck. But don’t tell Onyx that; they just showed off...

Hands On With the Onyx Boox 7.8″ Nova, 6″ Poke, and 13.3″ Max2 Pro

14 October, 201814 October, 2018e-Reading Hardware3 Comments

Charbax caught up with Onyx at the Frankfurt Book Fair, where they showed off several of their ereaders. The Onyx Boox Nova is a 7.8″ E-ink ereader...

Dasung Launches the Nixon of eReaders (video)

27 September, 201827 September, 2018e-Reading Hardware10 Comments

The Chinese E-ink monitor company Dasung is branching out into ereaders. They first teased this development in late 2016, but today Dasung made it official. They’ve...

Boyue Likebook Mars Features an Octacore CPU

4 September, 20185 September, 2018e-Reading Hardware26 Comments

It looks like the next device from Chinese ereader maker Boyue has leaked on Youtube. The Boyue Likebook Mars is a 7.8″ very similar to last year’s...

E-ink Booth Tour SID Display Week 2018 (videos)

4 June, 20184 June, 2018Conferences & Trade shows, E-ink, e-Reading HardwareLeave a comment

The ereader market is mostly dead, but E-ink is still showing off nifty looking new prototypes. For example, E-ink showed off their new 10.3″ flexible display last...

ClearInk is Still a Year Away From Mass Production (video)

31 May, 201831 May, 2018e-Reading Hardware, Screen Tech6 Comments

ClearInk demonstrated the latest examples of their screen tech at SID Display Week 2018. The screens missed their promised ship date of last quarter, but ClearInk...

Dasung Paperlike HD E-ink Monitor (video)

22 May, 201822 May, 2018e-Reading Hardware6 Comments

Dasung is a Chinese startup that is the only company to have produced an E-ink monitor. They call it the Paperlike, and launched their first model in...