{"id":671,"date":"2004-03-26T07:18:33","date_gmt":"2004-03-26T07:18:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/?p=671"},"modified":"2004-03-26T07:18:33","modified_gmt":"2004-03-26T07:18:33","slug":"another-new-e-book-platform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/2004\/03\/another-new-e-book-platform\/","title":{"rendered":"Another new e-book platform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three companies have  <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/technology\/3568505.stm\">joined forces on  a new kind of e-book<\/a> soon to debut in Japan. It has an intriguing innovation:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Unlike more familiar LCD displays, the screen can be read at almost any angle and in bright sunlight as it uses tiny charged beads to form letters and images.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It has 170 dots-per-inch screen resolution, and can reproduce grayscale images. Comes with a keyboard and runs on batteries.  Still a bit to expensive to be practical, but that&#8217;s what they said about PCs in 1980. <P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three companies have joined forces on a new kind of e-book soon to debut in Japan. It has an intriguing innovation: Unlike more familiar LCD displays, the screen can be read at almost any angle and in bright sunlight as&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/2004\/03\/another-new-e-book-platform\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}