1. Ebook Readers: Directions in Enabling Technology Coburn, Burrows, Loi & Wilkins @ Interactive Information Institute

2. Where we are…

3. LCD Display Lithium-Ion Battery Rigid Circuit board

4. Resolution and contrast Viewing conditions Weight Cost Power consumption Flexibility

5. Display Readability Display type - reflective preferred Resolution Luminance and contrast Kerning

6. Electronic Ink Reflective Using advanced print technology Bistable High-resolution

7. E Ink Power consumption Ease of manufacture Hybrid 2003 Flexible 2004-2005 RadioPaper & large format 2005 Bound volumes 2010

11. Colour E Ink 80 PPI 4096 colours Commercially available 2004 Colour filter technology

12. Gyricon Power consumption Material Cost Flexible now Bound volumes 2005 Wireless 2004

15. Flexible Transistors Manufacture Circuits and memory 2003-2005 Display drivers by 2003 Print the whole device by 2006!

17. Printable Batteries Available now, rechargeable by 2002 0.5mm thick An A4 sized sheet produces 1.5V Environmentally friendly Advanced screen printing technique

19. True eBooks? Understanding readers and all forms of reading will be the basis of good design Bound volumes commercially feasible in 3-7 years What other forms might reading devices take?

20. Ebook Readers: Directions in Enabling Technology Coburn, Burrows, Loi & Wilkins @ Interactive Information Institute