Electrowetting color displays coming up in 2008 - Page 4

zelda_pinwheel · 04-08-2008, 10:15 AM

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Originally Posted by m-reader

You're not alone. I personally can't say Electrowetting without chuckling.

I don't think the marketing department thought this one through

Then again, I chuckle when someone says "buns"

yeah... personally, it's the word "dongle" that i can't take seriously. electrowetting is pretty bad too.

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Originally Posted by axel77

Cool idea, when do we start our company?

heh ! well, whenever you want, but i should warn you, i might not be much use in it !! but if it means i get to play with new gadgets before everybody else (and for free !!) then you can sign me up...

NatCh · 04-08-2008, 11:32 AM

Hey, now, the Lounge is the proper place for organizing business ventures!

Penny Candy · 04-08-2008, 03:19 PM

(New person here)

I got interested enough to go to Liquavista’s “About” page, and found this:

“Liquavista’s electro-wetting displays (EWDs) are reflective rather than transmissive and so offer the potential for clear viewing in all lighting conditions, from a dimly lit office…”

To me “reflective rather than transmissive” strongly implies that the device, though it uses power to do its stuff, REFLECTS light rather than emitting it (or transmitting light), as a photo print rather than a slide. The strange part is that they are implying that a device that is not giving out its own light would work well in a dim office. So I guess they manage a contradiction in one sentence.

Plain English would be awfully nice.

brecklundin · 04-08-2008, 04:58 PM

Interesting observation. Not having read much about these display's I imagine the technology is a hybrid. And perhaps the lighting in from the front via LED, as opposed to typical backlit displays. There might either be a way to completly turn off the lighting or it has an ambient light sensor to control the birghtness of the front lighting.

But that is just a guess...or, of course they whole marketing staff could be a tad, ummm...confused?

NatCh · 04-09-2008, 11:00 AM

Surely you're not implying that the Marketing folks might be experiencing a rectal-cranial fusion incident? They'll have you know that all their best stuff is generated colonically -- they only keep their heads there for the warmth!

brecklundin · 04-11-2008, 06:11 AM

why heaven's no. I would never suggest such a condition existed in the marketing department. And I never read the book Jennifer Government either.

axel77 · 04-11-2008, 08:51 AM

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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

heh ! well, whenever you want, but i should warn you, i might not be much use in it !! but if it means i get to play with new gadgets before everybody else (and for free !!) then you can sign me up...

You'd just bring in the money

slayda · 04-11-2008, 09:00 AM

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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

yeah... personally, it's the word "dongle" that i can't take seriously. electrowetting is pretty bad too.

heh ! well, whenever you want, but i should warn you, i might not be much use in it !! but if it means i get to play with new gadgets before everybody else (and for free !!) then you can sign me up...

But will the electro-wetting require a "robotic" dongle to work properly?

zelda_pinwheel · 04-11-2008, 09:12 AM

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Originally Posted by slayda

But will the electro-wetting require a "robotic" dongle to work properly?

arg !! no, i'm sorry, i just could not buy a device using "electro-wetting" technology and requiring a dongle to work properly.

chef · 04-12-2008, 02:59 AM

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Originally Posted by axel77

I thought polymer vision is e-ink technology. Not?

Polymer Vision uses E Ink tech., but it is also a Phillips spinoff.

brecklundin · 04-12-2008, 03:46 AM

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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

arg !! no, i'm sorry, i just could not buy a device using "electro-wetting" technology and requiring a dongle to work properly.

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04-08-2008, 11:32 AM	#47
NatCh Gizmologist Posts: 11,615 Karma: 929550 Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Republic of Texas Embassy at Jackson, TN Device: Pocketbook Touch HD3	Hey, now, the Lounge is the proper place for organizing business ventures!

04-08-2008, 03:19 PM	#48
Penny Candy Junior Member Posts: 2 Karma: 10 Join Date: Apr 2008 Device: Kindle	(New person here) I got interested enough to go to Liquavista’s “About” page, and found this: “Liquavista’s electro-wetting displays (EWDs) are reflective rather than transmissive and so offer the potential for clear viewing in all lighting conditions, from a dimly lit office…” To me “reflective rather than transmissive” strongly implies that the device, though it uses power to do its stuff, REFLECTS light rather than emitting it (or transmitting light), as a photo print rather than a slide. The strange part is that they are implying that a device that is not giving out its own light would work well in a dim office. So I guess they manage a contradiction in one sentence. Plain English would be awfully nice.

04-08-2008, 04:58 PM	#49
brecklundin Banned Posts: 1,906 Karma: 15348 Join Date: Jun 2007 Device: mine	Interesting observation. Not having read much about these display's I imagine the technology is a hybrid. And perhaps the lighting in from the front via LED, as opposed to typical backlit displays. There might either be a way to completly turn off the lighting or it has an ambient light sensor to control the birghtness of the front lighting. But that is just a guess...or, of course they whole marketing staff could be a tad, ummm...confused?

04-09-2008, 11:00 AM	#50
NatCh Gizmologist Posts: 11,615 Karma: 929550 Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Republic of Texas Embassy at Jackson, TN Device: Pocketbook Touch HD3	Surely you're not implying that the Marketing folks might be experiencing a rectal-cranial fusion incident? They'll have you know that all their best stuff is generated colonically -- they only keep their heads there for the warmth!

04-11-2008, 06:11 AM	#51
brecklundin Banned Posts: 1,906 Karma: 15348 Join Date: Jun 2007 Device: mine	why heaven's no. I would never suggest such a condition existed in the marketing department. And I never read the book Jennifer Government either.