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Bendable electronic paper displays whole color range
Bendable electronic paper displays whole color range
![]() They don't say how it works, just that it's got gold and silver in it so it's bound to be expensive. |
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It's good to see new technology appearing. Whether this can be developed into a technically and economically viable display will only become apparent over the next decade or so.
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Yes, absolutely. What I am missing in the article is the power consumption. I mean, they say uses less energy than a Kindle tablet. They must mean eink Kindle? Because the Fire tablets are nothing special, no more or less energy hungry than any other tablet. But, if they mean eink it still doesn't make sense since it costs NO energy to keep the the display static, but a huge amount of energy to change it. Unless the new display has some sort of solar cell in it, it cannot use less energy than eink on a static page. It is not even clear to me from the article if energy is needed to keep the image from disappearing. Unless a specific usecase is mentioned (which it is not) it makes little sense to compare eink energy consumption to anything else. Eink only uses so little energy when the picture doesn't need to be updated constantly.
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As far I understand, this is not an e-ink screen but an active screen. The way it is colouring the pixels is by controlling how the external light is absorbed and reflected.
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The article says that the expense currently is from an excessive amount of gold that gets wasted in the manufacturing process. Last edited by Dylrob; 10-17-2016 at 02:44 PM. |
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So reducing the amount of memory to change the display might be what they've done? |
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Alas, the article was far less technical than I wished for. Last edited by DuckieTigger; 10-17-2016 at 11:34 PM. |
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The first electrophoretic patent was in October 1996 - twenty years ago. The E-Ink company was started in 1997. The first commercial E-Ink screen in an Ebook reader was the Sony Libre in 2004, eight years after the first lab demos, and mass market use in the Amazon Kindle only appeared in 2007. The first Mirasol display patent was in 1998, but the first commercial mirasol display in an ebook reader wasn't until the end of 2011 (& that was a failure). The first Liquavista patent was in 2003 or so. We have yet to see a commercial Ebook reader using an electro-wetting display. (Although I'm hoping that Amazon will release one 'soon'.) So this new technology is interesting, but will take a long time before we see it in a commercial product, if ever. |
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I think that tablets will basically take more and more of the ereader market over time. |
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There's another story about the same paper at TechCrunch.
It has a few more details, including the potential pixel density (up to 10k dpi) and refresh rate (2-3Hz). There's a link to the actual academic paper which is behind a paywall. |
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