Brother Industries Debuts E-paper in Academic World

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[Interview] Brother Industries Debuts E-paper in Academic World

Aug 21, 2008 19:21
Takuya Otani, Nikkei Electronics


Materials provided at academic conferences are always thick and take up much space. On the other hand, browsing data stored on a CD-ROM or USB memory device is hard on the eyes and requires power for notebook PCs. Electronic paper can be considered as one of the methods to deal with these complaints.

Brother Industries Ltd conducted a verification test at "Pan-Pacific Imaging Conference '08 (PPIC '08)," an annual conference hosted by the Imaging Society of Japan, from June 25 to 27, 2008. The company displayed conference material data on its prototype e-paper terminals and had some conference attendees try them in the test.

Nikkei Electronics interviewed Norihisa Fujii, manager of the company's NID Research & Development Department and Takeo Terao of the Pre-Business Group in NID Research & Development Department at Brother Industries, about the outline of the verification test and the company's approach to e-paper devices. (Interviewer: Takuya Otani, Nikkei Electronics).


The e-paper terminal developed by Brother Industries


It is only 12.4mm thick.


The program book of the PPIC '08 (left) and the e-paper terminal (right)


The e-paper terminal displaying the same page as the program book


The text on the terminal is almost the same size as that in the materials if the terminal is used in landscape orientation.


Multifunction printers can be used to scan and transmit data to the e-paper terminal, for example, in the future (image of the application)

Source and details about interview can be found at: http://techon.nikkeibp.co.jp/english...21/156661/?P=1