Company Fujitsu has overcome a serious barrier that separates this book from the e-reader – electronic devices for reading the texts. She introduced the world’s first reader FLEPia, supports the ability to view color images.

Screen e-book from Fujitsu is able to reproduce the 260 thousand colors and has an eight-inch diagonal.

The display is made using the technology of “electronic ink”, which allows you to read without the screen backlight. Due to this characteristic reader is not tires the eyes, and also fairly economical – a single battery charge is enough for 40 hours of reading.

The other side of the usage of “electronic ink” is a relatively slow speed of updating the pages – according to the standard, black-and-white image is fully updates on the screen by 1.8 seconds, and color images can make you wait almost 20 seconds. It should be noted that the device has the touch-screen, and for the convenience of its use it is completed with a special stylus.

Used in FLEPia flash card with the capacity of 4 Gb can store about five thousand books, reports TechRadar. In addition, the reader can receive information via wireless communication standard Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. The device understands the formats PDF, TXT, HTML, Word, Excel, PowerPoint files.

Gizmodo reminds that, in 2005, Fujitsu became the world’s first company which made color display using electronic paper technology. Two years later appeared FLEPia.