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Originally Posted by chrisridd
They separately mention tablets, so they must mean eInk Kindles.
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They mention "Kindle tablets" unless it is a typo or missing punctuation. ETA: You are right, just looked again, and they mention once that Kindle tablets use less energy than led tablets (whatever that is, either led backlid lcd or oled). Still, not a valid statement unless mostly static images are concerned.
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So reducing the amount of memory to change the display might be what they've done?
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I am not sure that this new display is a mechanical display like eink. Eink is so slow to change, because the black and white "ink" particles have to physically change location. The optical properties in eink never change, we just get to see the dark side or the light side of the moon on the surface. This new display, I suspect, is changing the optical quality of the material on a molecular basis similar to lcd. What I am unsure of is how they manage to get the display so thin - it would seam rather impossible to have anything suspended in liquid like lcd and still be that bendable.
Alas, the article was far less technical than I wished for.