Over the course of the last few years e-readers have dramatically come down in price. They once cost over three hundred dollars and now a quality device will cost less than a hundred. How have companies managed to reduce costs, while still maintaining high build quality? The answer is surprising.The Amazon Kindle Basic, Kobo Glo HD and Barnes and Noble Nook Glowlight all … [Read more...] about Neonode Powers the Modern e-Reader
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How Neonode Fell Victim to a Crashing e-Reader Industry
Neonode is best known for their IR touchscreen technology that mainstream e-readers employed, before most of them gravitated towards capacitive touch. The Amazon Kindle Touch, Kobo Glo, Sony PRS-T1 and similar models all employed Infrared sensors alongside the bezel. This provided these companies a dramatically affordable way to incorporate touchscreen technology into e-readers … [Read more...] about How Neonode Fell Victim to a Crashing e-Reader Industry
Amazon Abandons Neonode zForce IR Technology
Neonode zForce technology has been seen in a slew of lower-end eReaders for a number of years. The company estimates that it holds 80% of the market for touchscreen interfaces in black-and-white eReaders. This all might change in 2013 as major companies are abandoning the Neonode technology and instead going with Capacitive Multi-Touch.If you ever had a Kobo Touch, Kindle … [Read more...] about Amazon Abandons Neonode zForce IR Technology
Neonode to supply zForce touch for new Onyx e-Readers
Neonode has announced that it will now supply its patented zForce technology for a new line of Onyx e-Readers. This is a two year deal and will allow Onyx to employ this technology for e-readers and tablets to come out in Europe and China Q4 of 2011.Neonode has a dominant position in the world’s premier touch screen eReader market. Neonode’s patented touch screen … [Read more...] about Neonode to supply zForce touch for new Onyx e-Readers