Tag: e-ink
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CST-01 Watch Is World’s Thinnest
E-ink displays are great for a number of reasons, one of which is that their technology can be harvested and used in other products, like the watch above: the CST-01. Measuring a ridiculous 0.80mm thin, the timepiece is about the thickness of a slap bracelet. Built around a stainless steel frame, it weighs next to…
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PopSlate – An iPhone Case With An E-Ink Screen
Why would you want a screen on your iPhone 5 case? So you can snap a picture of whatever you want and use that to personalize the case, of course. Don’t wanna snap a pic? Just use one of at least a dozen pictures you can find on the Interwebs. The case uses an E-Ink…
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Seiko To Reveal A New Watch With An Active Matrix E-Ink Display Later This Year
By Andrew Liszewski According to their press release, Seiko was the first company to introduce a watch with a low-power e-ink display way back in 2005. But the display on that original model only had a few hundred “pre-positioned segments” which resulted in a screen that worked and looked a lot like traditional LCD-based segmented…
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Butterfly Displays Offer Vivid Color, Long Battery Life
By Evan Ackerman This is a prototype e-reader from Qualcomm called Mirasol. Apparently, this vivid color display (which doesn’t use a backlight) consumes less power than a monochrome e-ink display: More, after the jump.