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Digital Clock as Thin as Paper
Elitist_Phoenix writes "Citizen Watch has created a clock that is Paper thin! This unique design is enabled by E Ink Imaging Film. In addition to the fact that no backlighting is required, the display also has an inherently stable memory effect which requires no power to maintain an image - both of which drastically increase the battery life. The result is 1/100 the power consumption of traditional display options. Citizen Watch Co. and T.I.C.-Citizen Co. have not yet announced a launch date for this product, but it is expected to be commercialized in Japan in 2005."
I wonder if they will wind up putting little clocks into notebooks... that'd be really cool, I wouldn't have to have a watch anymore!
(I hate them, they rub on my wrist when I try to type)
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Another example of a paper thin watch is one showcased by Seiko around two months ago.
- watches/seikos-epaper-watch-prototype-039344.php
linky: http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/gadgets/clocks-and
i want low power pda with an eink screen.
gimmie a gumstix a membrane keyboard and 20 hrs battery life. even if it's just a console alphanumeric display for the lowest power and best refresh rate (eink is sloww.)
... wallpaper full of these things?
Your a bit late. They have already invented paper thats as thick as a digital clock...its called plywood.
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Although both the story and this post are blatant plugs for a proprietary technology, the stuff they use for this clock (E Ink) really is quite cool, and can be used in many other gadgets.
For example they are building bendable 200dpi grayscale screens and some Xbox game boxes are using it to create an animated picture on the side of the box.
I wonder how long it will be before these take over the world, and the sci-fi idea of every billboard and poster being animated becomes real? Maybe when the Pentium VI 10GHz Powerbook comes out, it'll have a screen that can be rolled up and put into your pocket?
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Think of the possibilities. How about a shirt with a USB port & flash memory so you could put all kinds of crazy pics on your shirt. Or possibly some sort of scripting language for ever-changing fractals. Now that would be cool.
About eight to ten years ago I remember reading a newspaper article that showed an ultra-thin LCD watch being inserted underneath a few layers of skin. The fact that it was only covered by a few layers meant that it was perfectly visible in normal conditions, like a tattoo. I also think that they said it would run off the body's natural energy.
As a result, you had a digital watch underneath your skin that was fully waterproof and never had to have batteries changed or anything. Just glance down at your wrist and BAM! God knows what they planned for daylight savings time and such.
This was frickin' years and years ago. It's funny to think that nothing ever came of it.
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How about a clock based on LED's that GLOWS in the DARK so you can see it at night? I seem to remember this technology in America, but apparently it has not made it across the pond. I have been looking since I moved here three months ago and have found nothing but battery-operated LCD and simple mechanical-arm clocks. Japan has this unnatural fixation with saving electricity, but this one particular issue drives me the battiest. Yes, an LCD clock uses less eletricity than an LED clock, though it is not obvious whether the use of batteries, which are very environmentally unfriendly, offsets the energy savings. Either way, in my case, they lose. I have set up a electric night-light to shine directly on my battery-powered mechanical clock so I can see what time it is when I wake up at three AM. I am sure this wastes a hundred times the electricity they have tried to force me to save. And don't get me started on the elevators in my building, which in their quixotic quest to save electricity, waste workers' time that I have calculated is roughly one hundred times as valuable, at minimum.
...utilised in tatoos. Think about it. A tattoo that tells time, a tattoo that changes expression according to your mood, hell, even a tattoo that can become a computer interface.
Was also my first thought - How about a wall with a living pattern? One that gradually changed and twisted randomly? Sweet.