e-Paper Review…

Wondering what’s up on the e-paper front? Dr. Joe Webb and Vince Naselli take a rather comprehensive look at the current players in the marketplace in this fine review which looks at the Sony Reader, iLiax iRex and others.

The authors do a great job of showing you what’s good about the technology (battery life) and what isn’t (gray scale only). All in all it’s a fine piece of writing as the “review” section is wholly objective, with the authors leaving their opinions on the space until the end, which is:

Regardless, our outlook for electronic paper as a display technology is quite bullish, but we feel that while the first-generation devices are impressive, the real application for electronic paper will be incorporated into next-generation PDAs, cellphones, MP3 players—or whatever omnipurpose device evolves out of the merging of all of these disparate gadgets. The combination of a flexible or rollable e-paper display with a device that can access the wireless Internet and access updated content is a killer app waiting to happen.

And the people said, “Amen.”