Monday, February 7, 2011

NoteSlate, An E-Ink Tablet Made For Writing

File beneath "awesome wish-ware". The NoteSlate is a inscription that takes the name "slate" rsther than as well literally. It's an e-ink inscription that comes with a pop-out stylus to write on the screen, and whilst it moreover comes in white, the black chronicle looks only similar to a actual line-up " those mill chalk-boards on that kids would work in college in the gloomy mists of the past.

A outrageous 13-inch manifestation takes up many of the front row of the device. The shade measures 190×270mm, and the body 210×310x6mm. This creates it the same breadth as A4 or authorised paper, and between the two in length (legal is 355mm, A4 is 279mm). Resolution is 750×1080 pixels. Inputs and outputs are few: miniUSB, SD-slot, 3.5mm jack and power (12-volts, that seems a small high).

The NoteSlate has a singular purpose: to deed similar to a square of paper. You can draw and write, and the 3 hardware buttons let you undo a entire page (the coop can deed as an eraser for localized corrections), store the stream page of flip to the formerly page (no speak of is done of skipping to the next page).

At $99, it looks similar to an overwhelming gadget, but has the noteworthy sniff of vaporware. The mockups on the site uncover a color chronicle along with the black and white ones, and guarantee a "free Wi-Fi procedure on solicit with order". The fortitude (claimed as 100ppi) seems low for e-ink, and the touting of no anti-aliasing as "one of our most appropriate features" is only solid weird.

The launch date is betrothed as June 2011, and I'd admire to see something similar to this as a deputy to paper notebooks. we have a unctuous feeling, though, that this will only vanish and never be seen again. we have set myself a monthly calendar follow-up is to center of June to examine up on things.

NoteSlate product page [NoteSlate around Kottke ]

See Also:

Pixel Qi Hybrid E-Ink LCD Screens for Your Own Netbook

Slates

7 Reasons You Won't Want a Windows 7 Slate

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