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Originally Posted by RWood
...the refresh rate for e-ink is very slow and not suitable for normal computer tasks. (Games are also out of the question with e-ink due to the slow response on screen refreshes. When you can use a watch to time a screen refresh, that is slow.  ) |
True -- for now! Slowness is not an inherent property of e-ink. E-ink devices today all use e-ink version 1 or version 2 (Vizplex). When they commercialize version 5 or 6, we'll have very quick refresh and color as well.
Don't believe me?
Check this out. From ~1:16-1:27 there's a demo from E-ink Inc. of a working full-color video-refresh-rate e-ink display. Of course they say it won't hit the marketplace for another few years (and this video is a year old, anyway). But you can see, such a thing does actually exist in a lab somewhere.
Personally, I want it right here, right now.