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Originally Posted by jswinden
I suspect that any company that is still trying to develop eInk devices 10 years from now [...]
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It takes a long time to go from a lab demo to a commercial product.
The first electrophoretic patent was in October 1996 - twenty years ago. The E-Ink company was started in 1997. The first commercial E-Ink screen in an Ebook reader was the Sony Libre in 2004, eight years after the first lab demos, and mass market use in the Amazon Kindle only appeared in 2007.
The first Mirasol display patent was in 1998, but the first commercial mirasol display in an ebook reader wasn't until the end of 2011 (& that was a failure).
The first Liquavista patent was in 2003 or so. We have yet to see a commercial Ebook reader using an electro-wetting display. (Although I'm hoping that Amazon will release one 'soon'.)
So this new technology is interesting, but will take a long time before we see it in a commercial product, if ever.