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Alexander Turcic · 01-06-2006, 05:42 AM

While we have flash media enhanced with E Ink and regular liquid crystal displays, we're still looking for a contender who uses bistable cholesteric technology. Sure enough, Gizmodo has a quick write up of Didigo's new SmartDrive DD01 which uses a bistable cholesteric display (BCD) to display various information including drive volume name, remaining disk capacity, and a pie chart for a quick glimpse of disk space usage. The advantages of BCD are similar to those of E Ink: sunlight readable with impressive contrast, energy is needed only when refreshing images, very wide viewing angles.

01-06-2006, 05:42 AM	#1
Alexander Turcic Fully Converged Posts: 18,175 Karma: 14021202 Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Switzerland Device: Too many to count here.	Didigo SmartDrive DD01 with BCD screen While we have flash media enhanced with E Ink and regular liquid crystal displays, we're still looking for a contender who uses bistable cholesteric technology. Sure enough, Gizmodo has a quick write up of Didigo's new SmartDrive DD01 which uses a bistable cholesteric display (BCD) to display various information including drive volume name, remaining disk capacity, and a pie chart for a quick glimpse of disk space usage. The advantages of BCD are similar to those of E Ink: sunlight readable with impressive contrast, energy is needed only when refreshing images, very wide viewing angles.