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Originally Posted by charleski
The polymer display is just flashing a static image on and off. Though it does show that they can accelerate their particles to moderately reasonable velocities, the actual switching rate of individual elements in that demo is not much more than 1fps. I suspect that eInk has problems with the settling time required after a cell has been changed, possibly associated with the need to decelerate the particles and then accelerate them back in the opposite direction. There's a brief glimpse of a screen with a colour section overlaid on top of what looks like a regular eInk display. What's going on there? They don't say, but I do know that there's been research done on integrating eInk and LCD displays. |
You should take whatever Engadget writers say with a heavy pinch of salt. More often than not they don't bother to do the proper research. Case in point, Pixel Qi's technology has absolutely nothing to do with eInk or
electrophoretics in general. It's pure LCD technology... just with the "formula" heavily tweaked.
As for the color display, it was mentioned in this
press release.
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Originally Posted by charleski
Finally, that video is over 2 years old. It's strange we haven't heard more about colour video eInk in the meantime, don't you think? So no, I don't think that YouTube clip is proof of colour full-motion video in a product in the next 2-3 years. If Cringely thinks Apple will whip one of of their hat early next year then he needs to lay off the moonshine.
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I never said it would. The point is that a prototype
does exist, regardless of whether it's anywhere close to being mass produced.