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Charleston Conference, eBook Access Models and Technology

November 10th, 2010 · No Comments · conferences & trade shows

Lisa Carlucci Thomas, Digital Services Librarian at Southern Connecticut State University, spoke about access models for eBooks, specifically with mobile devices and dedicated eReaders. Lisa spoke about barriers to access stating that restrictive DRM, licensing, and incompatible formats are all barriers to accessibility of eBooks.  Additionally, devices all have different loading options. Librarians have to [...]

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HP’s latest epaper technology

September 2nd, 2010 · 1 Comment · hardware news, video

This video was shot at Stanford University during a guest lecture by Carl Taussig, the Director of the Information Surfaces Lab at Hewlett-Packard. The complete movie is about 80 minutes long. He has an actual demo unit with him, and you can see it at about 18:45. But you really should watch the whole thing. [...]

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Liquavista announces LiquavistaVivid – new display technology

May 20th, 2010 · 1 Comment · liquavista, video

Liquavista today announced a new display platform named LiquavistaVivid.  It sounds a lot like Pizel Qi, actually. From the press release: Liquavista BV, today announced the launch of its next product platform LiquavistaVivid.  Bringing a level of performance unparalleled by other transflective displays, LiquavistaVivid is the ultimate, highly versatile, intelligent adaptive display; specifically developed to [...]

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