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Originally Posted by MikeFromHC
However the intent was to show that eInk is not and almost certainly will never be suitable for anything but a dedicated reader.
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Thanks for reminding me of Clarke's first law:
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When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
Arthur C. Clarke, Clarke's first law
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Never is a very long time.
I'm thinking that the folks at eInk (nee PVI) are working very hard to debate that conclusion. Leaving aside the various signage applications (
http://www.motiondisplay.com/) and the existing eInk watches (
http://www.seikowatches.com/press/20...ls1003-06.html and
http://www.google.com/images?q=seiko...ed=0CDYQsAQwAw) which already prove your assessment overly broad, there is the fact that there is a lot of research going on to produce fast, high-saturation, color bi-modal displays. What was true last year is not true this year and won't be true in the future.
LCD is king of the hill now but there are physical limits to what its light-valve approach can achieve in terms of energy efficiency and saturation. Sooner or later, it's reign will end. Maybe at the hands of eInk, maybe at the hands of quantum dot displays, maybe something else.
Check this:
http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/h...-of-the-future
I rather like the concept of the electrofluidic displays, myself.
If anything, LCD provides a nice fat target because of its reliance on glass substrates, polarization, *and* backlighting. With incremental tweaks it'll be around a long time but a long time isn't forever.
My guess? A decade.
And whatever replaces it *will* be more like eInk than LCD.
Toodles!