Reinkstone goes big on color with 10-inch e-paper Android tablet

China’s Reinkstone has launched a 10.1-inch color e-paper tablet that runs on Android 11, which offers the kind of reading and doodling experience of the excellent Remarkable 2, but with the added draw of color.Continue ReadingCategory: Mobile Technolo… Continue reading Reinkstone goes big on color with 10-inch e-paper Android tablet

Photonic device makes light any color by manipulating individual photons

Engineers at Stanford have created a new optical device that can easily manipulate light into basically any color desired. The system uses a series of modulators to fine-tune the frequencies of individual photons to change their color.Continue ReadingC… Continue reading Photonic device makes light any color by manipulating individual photons

Natural brilliant blue food coloring wrung out of red cabbage

It may seem like a basic color, but blue is actually rather rare in the natural world. That complicates the search for natural blue food colorings, but now a team of scientists has found a promising candidate hiding in red cabbage.Continue ReadingCateg… Continue reading Natural brilliant blue food coloring wrung out of red cabbage

Review: Reading in color with the PocketBook InkPad Color

Last month, Switzerland’s PocketBook announced the release of the InkPad Color, an e-reader built around E Ink’s newest color screen technology. We’ve been sent one for review.Continue ReadingCategory: Mobile Technology, TechnologyTags: E-reader, Color… Continue reading Review: Reading in color with the PocketBook InkPad Color

Yale study suggests worms can “see” color even without eyes

Yale researchers have found evidence that a worm species can detect the color blue – even though it doesn’t have eyes, or any kind of visual system that it should, by all accounts, require. In tests, the team found that the color of harmful bacteria in… Continue reading Yale study suggests worms can “see” color even without eyes

PocketBook’s latest e-reader first to use new E Ink color display tech

Swiss e-reader maker PocketBook has launched a new device called the InkPad Color that’s reckoned to be the first e-reader to sport the latest 7.8-inch color screen technology from E Ink.Continue ReadingCategory: Mobile Technology, TechnologyTags: E-re… Continue reading PocketBook’s latest e-reader first to use new E Ink color display tech

Color E-Ink Display Photo Frame Pranks [Mom]

As a general rule, it’s not nice to prank your mother. Moms have a way of exacting subtle revenge, generally in the form of guilt. That’s not to say it might not be worth the effort, especially when the prank is actually wrapped in a nice gesture, like this ever-changing …read more

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STM32 Gets Up Close and Personal with Mandelbrot

The Mandelbrot set is a curious mathematical oddity that, while interesting in its own right, is also a useful tool for benchmarking various types of computers. Its constant computing requirement when zooming in and out on the function, combined with the fact that it can be zoomed indefinitely, means that …read more

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Monochrome CRT and Liquid Crystal Shutter Team Up for Color Video

If you were tasked with designing a color video monitor, it’s pretty clear how you’d go about it. But what if you’d been asked to do so 20 years ago? Would it have been a cut and dried from an engineering standpoint? Apparently not, as this hybrid LCD-CRT video monitor …read more

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