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Originally Posted by ProDigit
has anyone ever tried drawing small dots of RGB on a white piece of paper, and can they verify if it is real black?
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Umm... no. (Apologies if I missed the joke). Lots of small RGB dots on white paper will look white (or grey).
There are other technologies around that might work well in ebook readers. Just a couple of examples:
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Ntera's Nanochromic inks - they're transparent/coloured bistable inks that change in response to a low-voltage electric field. They're more into signs and things at the moment, but so was eInk when they started.
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Opalux's Photonic colour technology, which uses an interestingly structured rubber material to generate any colour from a single pixel.
Lots of development work to be done on both, but either might provide us with cheap, robust, colour ebook reader displays..... in five to ten years time.