Comments on: LG announces solar-powered e-book reader http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/lg-announces-solar-powered-e-book-reader/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Tue, 14 Feb 2012 21:55:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Robin http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/lg-announces-solar-powered-e-book-reader/comment-page-1/#comment-1146868 Robin Tue, 13 Oct 2009 18:27:33 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/2009/10/12/lg-announces-solar-powered-e-book-reader/#comment-1146868 It's absolutely a Sony 505 in that Photoshop mock-up. 4 hours of sunlight to provide a days worth of power for an e-ink screen seems totally lame. Why LG's press release gives the impression they made an e-reader I have no idea, when it seems all they made is a solar-cell charging kit for e-readers. I love it where they say "don't you hate it when your e-reader runs out of juice in the middle of a page" (or words to that effect). Considering the charge lasts for around 7000 page turns, you'd have to be quite remiss in your charging to ever run out of power. Hey kids, instead of remembering to plug your eReader in once a month, buy this and remember to carry it with you all the time! That said, a small solar cell in the extra metal space at the bottom of the reader to add a constant trickle charge while reading, would probably be all you need for e-ink to never need plugging in. OLED is another matter. It’s absolutely a Sony 505 in that Photoshop mock-up. 4 hours of sunlight to provide a days worth of power for an e-ink screen seems totally lame. Why LG’s press release gives the impression they made an e-reader I have no idea, when it seems all they made is a solar-cell charging kit for e-readers. I love it where they say “don’t you hate it when your e-reader runs out of juice in the middle of a page” (or words to that effect). Considering the charge lasts for around 7000 page turns, you’d have to be quite remiss in your charging to ever run out of power. Hey kids, instead of remembering to plug your eReader in once a month, buy this and remember to carry it with you all the time!

That said, a small solar cell in the extra metal space at the bottom of the reader to add a constant trickle charge while reading, would probably be all you need for e-ink to never need plugging in. OLED is another matter.

]]> By: Felix Torres http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/lg-announces-solar-powered-e-book-reader/comment-page-1/#comment-1146837 Felix Torres Mon, 12 Oct 2009 20:13:13 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/2009/10/12/lg-announces-solar-powered-e-book-reader/#comment-1146837 Ah, the Press release makes a bit more sense: http://www.lgdisplay.com/homeContain/jsp/eng/inv/inv101_j_e.jsp?BOARD_IDX=1773&languageSec=E&kinds=IN1 The solar cell alone is sub-milimeter thin and light, not the reader. Ah, the Press release makes a bit more sense:
http://www.lgdisplay.com/homeContain/jsp/eng/inv/inv101_j_e.jsp?BOARD_IDX=1773&languageSec=E&kinds=IN1

The solar cell alone is sub-milimeter thin and light, not the reader.

]]> By: Felix Torres http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/lg-announces-solar-powered-e-book-reader/comment-page-1/#comment-1146835 Felix Torres Mon, 12 Oct 2009 19:55:15 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/2009/10/12/lg-announces-solar-powered-e-book-reader/#comment-1146835 Aside from the fact that the reader in the pic looks a whole lot like a Sony 505, the quoted numbers in the article look to be a tad... ambitious... 0.7 mm thickness and 20 grams for the entire 6in reader? Uh, okay... Aside from the fact that the reader in the pic looks a whole lot like a Sony 505, the quoted numbers in the article look to be a tad… ambitious… 0.7 mm thickness and 20 grams for the entire 6in reader?
Uh, okay…

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