At Finetech Japan, Bridgestone displayed their AeroBee E-paper display, which is the commercial version of their QR-LPD display which has been shown at various prototype stages throughout it's development.
"This digital paper works in a very different way from E-Ink's technology. AeroBee works by using black and white electrified powder, and making the powder move in air, by applying a voltage to transparent electrodes. So for example, AeroBee can follow the input from pen quickly because the powder moves in air."
"For the A4 size module on show here, we provide the hardware and operating system. So we'll supply AeroBee mainly to system integrators. We expect they'll use AeroBee by building it into services for their customers."
The Aerobee E-reader runs the Linux 2.6 kernel on an Arm 11 processor. It also has 128 MB of RAM, weighs about 600 g and features Bluetooth and Wi-fi connectivity.
As well as enabling full-color viewing using color filters, AeroBee supports handwritten input. And because digital paper conserves energy and paper, Bridgestone expects AeroBee to find many uses in the business environment.
"Specifically, AeroBee could be utilized for questionnaires, using the pen input capability. We're actually doing a questionnaire survey here, using this module, and saving the results in a database. AeroBee could also be used for many other purposes, such as digital charting in healthcare and digital textbooks in schools."
In addition to A4 size, other modules are available, so users can choose a size that meets their requirements. AeroBee is also flexible, so it can be affixed to curved surfaces as well.
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