IREX Technologies, maker of various e-ink-based eReaders, including the Iliad with Wacom digitizer for pen input, has filed for bankruptcy protection in the Netherlands due in part to delays leading to a missed holiday sales season.
We’ve got a lot of wars going on. Browser wars. OS Wars. Various Hardware Wars. Mobile Wars. You name it, everyone is competing with everyone else to try and grab your dollars. The eBook Wars are really beginning to heat up and everyone has their sights on Amazon and its Kindle. Barnes & Noble ratcheted [...]
New e-Readers from iRex are causing a double-take, especially from those who are cash conscious in these challenging economic times. The features look nice: 3G, WiFi, Bluetooth, and digitizer – but at $850, I’m not sure they will be flying off the shelf. via Engadget Technorati Tags: iRex,e-Reader
I really enjoyed the time I got to spend reviewing the iRex Technologies iLiad ebook reader. (InkShows 1 and 2)At the time of the review the iLiad 2nd Edition was the only available model, but today, iRex announced the new iLiad Book Edition, launching on May 9. The new iLiad Book Edition shares all of [...]
After reviewing the iRex iLiad e-book reader, I have been really excited about the possibilities of combining the e-ink / e-paper display with touch and inking capabilities. InfoWorld is reporting from the Display 2008 exhibition in Tokyo on a new display “developed by E-Ink, Taiwan’s Prime View International, and Japan’s Seiko Epson. It combines a [...]
As promised, here is Part 2 of the InkShow. In Part 2, I cover creating ink notes as well as acquiring and syncing content. As I warned you last time, when I got done shooting the full video, I had way too much material for one InkShow, so I divided it rather arbitrarily into two [...]
As I mentioned a couple of weeks ago, iRex Technologies loaned me an iLiad E-Book Reader for two weeks to do a brief evaluation. While the e-book reader is itself a very nice product, the exciting part about the iLiad is that it includes a Wacom digitizer. I’ll warn you, when I got done shooting [...]
Not that I’m trying to one-up Warner or anything, but I just received a sample of an iRex iLiad e-book reader with an integrated Wacom digitizer. Although the iRex iLiad is not a new product, given the recent reviews of the Amazon Kindle and the video we did with the Kindle and the Sony Reader [...]
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