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Duud, say again? O.o
There's some interesting technology going on around screens these days,including the newer OLED design monitors only 3mm in width!
That like the e-ink screens can be bend and still playback their content!
I don't think magnetic screens will make it through the market, since they are sensitive to outward magnetic radiation (eg of a speaker, earphones, magnet, ...). I also assume it uses more energy to display the image than e-ink; as well as if it holds liquid, that means it's more vulnerable to physical damage. The article also shows the screen refresh is very low.
I can imagine the particles inside holding a remnant magnetic field after being charged, which could be the reason for the slow screen refresh rate.
I guess people complaining from ghosting effect on e-ink haven't seen anything yet on these devices!
One of the ways to make the screen refresh faster is to make the pixels smaller,which will result in a more complex magnetic structure behind the screen... To me it seems this technology will not see the light of day,and if it does,it won't be here in the next coming 4 years or so.. after which it's probably 'old' anyways.
I really can't find any place where they could use something like that, but perhaps in certain chemical plants with highly explosive gasses they could prefer screens like this?
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