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Old 01-09-2010, 09:23 AM   #46
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Originally Posted by MikeOnyx View Post
Hi, since I'm right next to their booth and they are pretty friendly, they explained a little to me.

First of all, it is NOT e-ink. It's a normal, almost LCD like display that displays up to 4 level gray scale. However it still does not have a backlight (this is the cool part) because it uses a new reflective technology to get rid of the backlighting. Now the display quality is not that great but it's still, honestly, pretty cool.
Does it require power to maintain the image or to just change images?
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