Video - Page 12

A few months ago Art Technology released a new range of E Ink watches, called Phosphor watches. Now they have released a new model (black case Digital Hour), and have kindly send us one for review. The watch is now available for 190$.

The watch

The Digital Hour watch is a curved, light-weight watch. It's not thin, though, which is surprising because the display itself is very thin (more on this later, but it's under 400 micron thick!). The watch functions are pretty basic: you can view the time (in two modes: analog/digital combined, and just digital), the date, and there's also an alarm you can setup. The watch is always in 12-hours mode (no military time).

There are two buttons: one is used to flip between the 4 display modes (analog/digital time, digital time, date and alarm setup). The other button is used to flip the display between white on black or black on white. The two buttons are also used to setup the watch. You can see the analog/digital mode above, and here are the other 3 modes (from left to right: digital time, date and alarm). You can tell it's the date mode because of the small icon on the top-left.

Liquavista is showing their color e-paper display at CES. They say they expect product announcements in 2010/2011. Here's a nice video showing how it compares to an E Ink display:

The Flexible Display Center (at the Arizona State University) has developed a controller for a WowWee Rovio Robot using a flexible E Ink display:

A demo video by Pixel Qi showing their dual-mode display - LCD and e-paper in one display...

Engadget posted an interesting review of the new Kindle DX. Basically they like it - it is rather similar to the Kindle 2, but with a larger and better screen.

The only problem? It costs a lot of money (489$, currently available for pre-order).

I just found out this funny little video of someone trying to see just how durable E Ink displays really are. Using the Esquire magazine issue with the E Ink, he tries scratching it, drilling holes through it, lighting it on fire and more... finally putting it in the micro oven seems to much for the poor display.

Bridgestone Corp developed their own color e-paper technology (called QR-LPD), that also supports pen-input (sing Wacom's pen input tablet). Bridgestone's display has 0.8 second refresh rate.

Bridgestone E-Paper prototype

They have also published a short video of the new display:

Foxit is now selling their eSlick e-reader, for 260$. The eSlick has a 6" e ink 800x600 4-level gray scale display. It comes with 128MB of memory, SD card slot (it comes with a 2GB card) and an MP3 player. The eSlick weights 180gram and supports only .pdf and .txt files.

They also released a nice video of the device: