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Really nice to see R&D into alternate display types. There are so many different technologies losing Liquavista doesn't seem that bad in context they probably sucked in some unfixable way.

https://www.e-ink-info.com/

I gave the wrong link for ClearInk. This is the one I meant to paste/

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I know that there have been phones created using e-ink as the primary display. Much more of just a phone type cell phone rather than a smart phone. There are also some e-ink watches which makes a lot of sense too. I can always hope flexible e-ink displays get better so that the foldable e-ink phone/reader comes out, like this: readius

I can see screen update speed being an issue when you're looking through the pages of a manual as opposed to casually reading a book.

Looks like a value of 6fps - at an even lower speed, I don't thing thing browsing a book would create problems (comparison terms: the old silent movies were shot at anywhere from 12 to 26 fps, the standard is now at 24 fps).

I can see screen update speed being an issue when you're looking through the pages of a manual as opposed to casually reading a book.

Looks like a value of 6fps - at an even lower speed, I don't thing thing browsing a book would create problems (comparison terms: the old silent movies were shot at anywhere from 12 to 26 fps, the standard is now at 24 fps).

According to this article: http://www.e-ink-info.com/fujitsu-shows-new-prototype-color-e-reader Fujitsu is building something based on this and it has a refresh rate of 0.7 seconds. So pretty slow. Other articles ( http://www.e-ink-info.com/auos-sipix-e-paper-now-fast-enough-video-6fps ) suggest that some monochrome panels are capable of 6 frames per second and speculate ( http://www.e-ink-info.com/e-ink-do-not-expect-new-monochrome-e-ink-display-2011 ) that 24 frames per second may be possible in a matter of years.

So... it's still mostly useful for static displays, but in a couple of years we may be seeing it branching out into other applications.

According to this article: http://www.e-ink-info.com/fujitsu-shows-new-prototype-color-e-reader Fujitsu is building something based on this and it has a refresh rate of 0.7 seconds. So pretty slow. Other articles ( http://www.e-ink-info.com/auos-sipix-e-paper-now-fast-enough-video-6fps ) suggest that some monochrome panels are capable of 6 frames per second and speculate ( http://www.e-ink-info.com/e-ink-do-not-expect-new-monochrome-e-ink-display-2011 ) that 24 frames per second may be possible in a matter of years.

So... it's still mostly useful for static displays, but in a couple of years we may be seeing it branching out into other applications.

According to this article: http://www.e-ink-info.com/fujitsu-shows-new-prototype-color-e-reader Fujitsu is building something based on this and it has a refresh rate of 0.7 seconds. So pretty slow. Other articles ( http://www.e-ink-info.com/auos-sipix-e-paper-now-fast-enough-video-6fps ) suggest that some monochrome panels are capable of 6 frames per second and speculate ( http://www.e-ink-info.com/e-ink-do-not-expect-new-monochrome-e-ink-display-2011 ) that 24 frames per second may be possible in a matter of years.

So... it's still mostly useful for static displays, but in a couple of years we may be seeing it branching out into other applications.