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http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/guest/25465/

In a five-part demo just posted to YouTube and exclusive to Technology Review (as of this writing, none of these videos has more than a few dozen views) Nemoptic shows off its new black and white "bistable, nematic" e-paper technology.

This first video shows off the display's relatively fast, 30 millisecond refresh, and a resolution sufficient to "render complex Chinese characters." (Note the implicit focus on an extremely price-sensitive emerging market.)

In an intriguing development, this video shows the display's ability to do a partial refresh--that is, to only refresh the part of the display that requires it. It could be both a performance-enhancing and a power-saving measure.