06-23-2012, 08:04 PM | #1 |
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E-Ink Watches nice to have on my Kindle
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maybe something for Kindle Fan E-Ink Watches Thing I will get me one of this http://technabob.com/blog/2009/06/17...-not-a-kindle/ have anyone try to make fullscreen Clock on Kindle ?? something to use when you stop use your old Kindle to read Regards Sigster |
06-23-2012, 09:14 PM | #2 |
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06-23-2012, 10:42 PM | #3 |
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Here's a E-Paper watch that interacts with your android phone: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/...droid?ref=live
More info here: http://getpebble.com/ Last edited by Edward_R; 06-23-2012 at 10:45 PM. Reason: Added second link |
06-23-2012, 11:07 PM | #4 |
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Edward beat me to the punch. I was going to mention the Pebble which looks a LOT better than the one in the OP. Granted, I don't think those Phosphor watches look terrible... But, I would take the Pebble over it any day of the week.
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06-24-2012, 12:45 PM | #5 |
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06-25-2012, 01:49 AM | #6 |
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A "screensaver" clock on the Kindle wouldn't work, because the screen never gets updated when the Kindle is asleep. It would simply show you the time that the Kindle went to sleep, which doesn't sound terribly useful to me .
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P.S. It is usually not safe to say the something is impossible (or "wouldn't work"), because somebody will eventually (or already has) proven you wrong. It is much safer to say that you do not know how to do it. Speaking in "absolutes" is always risky. If you leave a sleeping 3G kindle sitting near amplified computer speakers, you may have noticed that it sometimes wakes up and "phones home", when you hear a burst of "cellphone noise" through the speakers, which proves that a kindle can be programmed to periodically wake up. Last edited by geekmaster; 06-25-2012 at 05:24 AM. |
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06-25-2012, 03:42 PM | #9 |
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You have to hack your Kindle to do this though, right?
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06-25-2012, 06:05 PM | #10 |
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Native mode programs such as the clock do not need to hack very deeply into the kindle. Just a background task that updates the eink framebuffer at periodic intervals. It helps to know that background tasks can be scheduled to wake up periodically even when the kindle is "asleep". Because updating the eink display consumes a significant amount of battery energy, they should not do it too often.
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06-27-2012, 10:18 PM | #11 |
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I have a Motorola F3 eink phone. It is phone only, it can't do any fancy thing.
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06-27-2012, 11:30 PM | #12 |
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If color eink could ever get deep saturation, I would love an eink display for my Vespa GPS.
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06-28-2012, 11:10 AM | #13 |
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The current color EINK technology is just the black and white eink we are familiar with, with a color filter overlay on the screen to tint the white particles under it. Because this blocks a significant amount of light (absorbed by the color filters), it will never have saturation anywhere near what you get from light-emitting displays (LCD, CRT, OLED, or plasma).
However, there are different eink-like passive color display technologies that may have better color saturation, but the ones so far available appear to have a very narrow viewing range that shows this color saturation (off axis viewing has very low saturation). Technology has some catching up to do to bring us the eink color technology with the display quality we crave, but it WILL happen (right after we invest a significant amount in a lesser-quality passive-color device). |
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06-28-2012, 01:52 PM | #15 |
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All these e-ink watches seem like they're reinventing the wheel. A $10 Casio tells time perfectly, lasts 3-4 years on a single battery and is viewable day and night.
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