Thanks to Jorgen for stopping in with this link. The writing’s a trifle technical, but it promises enormous potential for designers in the way of innovation for product development. As the release explains: “Collaboration between [these] market leaders [will] speed eBook evolution and enable new product categories.” Read the full release here.
It’s that product category creation that is exciting, with the ‘collaboration’ speeding the development of “eNewspapers, tablet PCs, laptop secondary displays, eNotebooks and eDictionaries.”‘
The hope is that this teaming’s development of System-on-a-Chip (SoC) solutions (an integration of Freescale’s i.MX processor technology with E Ink’s Vizplex® display controller) will create and shape new devices while bringing the overall cost of that machinery down.
Things are just exploding if you look at E Ink’s numbers shipping displays for one million units in 2008 expected to leap to 75 million units by 2018–in a market valued at approximately $3.8 billion.
We’ll see if their predictions hold true, or if the eBook Revolution continues to leap past all expectations, yah?
