Is there any tablet that's like an iPad but also has the electronic paper display of a Kindle so that I can read books on it and it wouldn't hurt my eyes? If not are they going to come up with such technology soon and are there any devices that have been announced?|||The electronic paper technology used in dedicated ebook readers like the Kindle has an extremely slow refresh rate. So slow that if you tried to play a video on one the best you would get is a slideshow. In other words they are ill suited for a tablet device.
Now there is a new kind of LCD called 3Qi, developed by the company Pixel Qi. While it's not true electronic paper, with the backlight turned off it does have many of the same benefits. Plus by turning the backlight on you get full color (Kindle is only black and white). Most critically though it can handle video playback, with or without said backlight.
The upcoming Notion Ink tablet can be purchased with either a 3Qi or conventional LCD.
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