The company Bookeen, which develops readers, insisting that using electronic ink technology, which they use for their devices is now possible to play back and video. Prior to that, it was assumed that E Ink screens are ideal for displaying text because they can do it without additional illumination while using very little power. After all, she spent only redraw the picture.

One of the significant drawbacks of technology has been way too long repaint, so the dynamic images were not available. But experts from Bookeen forced the screen shows an animation. In this case they used only standard components. All experiments were carried out with the help of the E Ink Pearl, which is powered by TI OMAP 3621 processor.

But the software had to be developed specifically. As a result – success in playing the animation in the format of H.264. Given these successes, we can safely confirm that very soon these screens will be used in production models and will be available on the market.

Source: electronista.com