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LG.Philips Develops World's First Color E-Paper

Posted by Zonk on from the i'd-love-me-some-of-that dept.

An anonymous reader writes "LG.Philips LCD has announced it has developed the world's first 14.1-inch flexible color E-paper display, equivalent in size to an A4 sheet of paper. The 14.1-inch flexible color E-paper uses electronic ink from E-Ink Corp. to produce a maximum of 4,096 colors. It can be viewed from a full 180 degrees, so that images always appear crisp, even when the display is bent."

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  1. Black and white version by tsa · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I've never even seen a device with black and white e-paper in it, and now they smugly announce the colour version. Why aren't the B&W e-paper devices more popular? Does it have to do with the fact that they don't work very well, or that they are extremely expensive?

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  2. They're too small. by xtal · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I've yet to see a A4 display. This is a real breakthrough, if it's affordable and available for purchase.

    I want one for viewing electronic spec sheets - all PDFs, all A4, and I have thousands of them. It would be nice to have a real "paper" like display instead of doing what we do now, which is print them. I've played with the e-ink stuff before, but the resolution was far too low and the screen size was paperback-sized.

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  3. after images by OrangeTide · · Score: 4, Interesting

    When I played with some eInk a few weeks ago it had a lot of after images. It's not (yet) appropriate for animation or video. But it is amazingly easy on the eyes. At first I thought the e-reader at the store was just a model with some fake image on the display, not so it was a real working unit.

    eInk won't be replacing your PC monitor any time soon, it seems to only be practical for specialized users.

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