It sounds good, but notice what they don't say anything about yet - power consumption.
Their technology isn't yet "bi-stable". It requires a constant application of voltage to form an image.
Quite a long way t go yet before we see it in production.
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Originally Posted by Laz116
At the University of Cincinnati, scientists claim to have developed a a new liquid display type, which is meant to compete against e-ink.
Benefits of the EFD (ElectroFluidic Display):
- Full colour display
- Higher contrast than e-ink
- Better reflectance than e-ink
- Greater colour depth than e-ink
- very small fluid chambers allow flexible displays
A new company, Gamma Dynamics, has been created to expedite commercialization.
http://www.uc.edu/news/NR.aspx?id=10068 |