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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."
Now I can lose my watch that much easier!
I can't wait to see when these same guys make a single sheet of paper as thick as a digital clock! It would be sweet. I don't think I see many uses for it though...
A guy walks into a bar... well, I forgot the joke, but the punchline is that he's an alcoholic.
Paper-thin redefined as cardboard-thick!
This could make the best t shirt ever. Of course you could probably never wash it, but who cares if you smell. You'd be too pimpin for people to complain.
...reasonably priced, non-DRM'd, long lasting battery...
Pick two, then we'll talk.
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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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I know I shouldn't respond to ACs, but I figured I should clear this up for anyone that happens to be reading. Electronic ink works by having microscopic charged spheres that are white on one side and black on the other. When an electric field is applied, the sphere flips over. But when the electric field is turned off, it stays how it is. So it only needs power when the image is changing.
Real_men_don't_need_spacebars.
are we talking notebook computers? Isn't there already a little clock on the screen in the lower-right corner (in both windows and linux)?
A beowulf book of these. :)
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.
Mother, do you think they'll like this sig?
Just glance down at your wrist and BAM!
BAM!? What... you walk into a tree?