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