LiquaVista

Liquavista is showing new 8.5" full-color and monochrome displays, available across their entire range of platforms: LiquavistaBright, LiquavistaColor and LiquavistaVivid. The displays offer XGA resolution (1024x768).

Available to partners for evaluation through Liquavista’s partner program, manufacturers and product developers will be able to gain early access to samples.

Via E-Ink-Info

E-Ink-Info has posted an interview with Liquavista's CTO, in which he gives more information on their electrowetting display technology and their plans for the e-reader market. Liquavista are offering color and monochrome e-reader displays, and expect to be on the market by 2010/11.

Liquavista is showing their color e-paper display at CES. They say they expect product announcements in 2010/2011. Here's a nice video showing how it compares to an E Ink display in a Sony e-reader:

Via E-Ink-Info.com

Liquavista are developing three technology platforms (LiquavistaBright™, LiquavistaColor™ and LiquavistaVivid™) planned for product implementation throughout 2010/2011. 

The first technology platform, LiquavistaBright, will enable a smooth and fast user interface on eReader devices, thanks to the inherent video capability. Being able to move and scroll the content seamlessly will allow consumers to have a fully featured UI and significantly larger effective screen, enabling access to other more traditional online media such as web content and video, as well as both tabloid and broadsheet newsprint. In addition, these displays will be brighter and have more contrast than current solutions.  The devices using the LiquavistaBright display can combine the durable eBook experience, which can be found in the current eReaders, with a new multimedia experience, which is according to recent marketing research one of the most requested benefits of future eReaders.

Liquavista, a dutch company working on ePaper technologies for e-Reader displays, has raised 3.7M$ (it's actually a loan) from SenterNovem, an agency of the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs.