3 New light and compact electronic dictionaries from Canon.

Canon Japan just announced 3 new WordTanks, a series of compact electronic dictionaries featuring a 2.4” color LCD with a QVGA resolution.

Divided in 2 categories within the Wordtank S502, a Heavy Duty Japanese - English dictionary created for the people who are asking for the best package solution, the S501E and S501J are however, built more for the casual users and offer on the S501J series a Hiragana keyboard only.

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Samsung's Plastic e-Paper and Video Capable e-Paper Concept

Next to Samsung's so called, but yet proven, slimmest TV in the world, the Samsung PDF booth also had some interesting e-paper based concepts, like a video capable panel and plastic e-paper 10.1” using a reflective electrophoretic display with a 10:1 contrast ratio and a 12% reflectivity.

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Bridgestone Announces a Flexible Touchscreen Color e-reader

This morning at FDP 2009 Japan Bridgestone displayed their latest QR-LPD or Quick-Response Liquid Powered technology, this time based on a new e-Book concept with a 13.1” all color touchscreen only 5.8mm thick and a 0.8 refresh rate… While Bridgestone didn't show their color version in action, they did display both a color and black QR-LPD panel with a nice little demo video

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