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Originally Posted by DaleDe
but there are no examples or even drawings to show how this is superior to E Ink
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But I remember that the prototypes were somehow visible in the YouTube clips of the fairs, during the interviews of the CEO?
I remember something like "washed out, but to be seen".
Also, displays must be vetted in the cases: sunlight, outdoors, indoors, darkness. (Hence: to be seen.)
One infographic suggested an hybrid - of moving particles under electric tension and LCD.
EDIT2.2: they have developed both bistable and 33fps refresh rate displays, and the first "big" funding they received was for the latter - to have a product in the market - so it will be the latter to be initially propelled. It is cheap energy wise because it is not backlit and because the energy per pixel required is that needed to move a particle half a micron. For the "nightly" scenario, they have frontlight - which is apparently much more energy efficient than backlight (as one of their prominences stated, only around 10% of a backlight reaches the surface). It should be cheap to produce because it requires modifying only around 15% of an LCD manifacturing process, and abandons some of the steps (polarizer, backlight).
Kits were expected to be available in January.
These were info of around half 2017.