Quote:
|
Originally Posted by NatCh
You do realize that you've just given me a new Life Goal, don't you?  |
Happy to help!
Tangenting back toward the vague general direction of the original topic... I was browsing around at BBC news and found an interesting article about a kind of very white beetle being studied by scientists. Apparently its shell is a bright white, despite being quite thin, which is difficult to accomplish from a technical perspective. According to the article, the shell is composed of many small plates with "random 3D structure" to refract the light. I wonder if something like this could help improve the whiteness of the white microbeads in E Ink? I don't know if that's where the limits of the contrast of these screens are being hit, or if it's just a side effect of the liquid surrounding the microbeads, or both, or something else entirely. Thought it was an interesting idea, though.
More detail here:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6272485.stm