E-Ink introduces new segmented display cell screens -- kind of like old school LCD
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
David @ May 11th 2008 8:29PM
Fix headline please!
David @ May 11th 2008 8:30PM
and that's my first first post, btw...woot!
Aguiluz @ May 11th 2008 9:44PM
The order of posts do not matter. The content of the post does.
BOT, I think that's a prototype. It may be e-ink, it may be not.
Saad @ May 11th 2008 8:33PM
and watch your rank go down
low tech @ May 11th 2008 9:45PM
Hmmm... Let me try this...
and watch your rank go up
Aguiluz @ May 11th 2008 9:45PM
I'm watching both of your ranks go down.
Tom @ May 11th 2008 8:36PM
The shape of the image without consequence? Fantastic, but how can you withhold such elementary images for the forthcoming of the seasons?
I wish to explore! To the avast for the alien-workplace?
Such an automotive item!
Dustin Leiblein @ May 11th 2008 8:49PM
WOW! I have never seen anything like that before!
http://salestores.com/stores/images/images_747/APS997.jpg
Chris @ May 11th 2008 9:25PM
Notice how your link is a rectangular screen and the above image isn't...way to use less than 10% of your brain there genius...
Jeremy W @ May 11th 2008 9:01PM
The news is the shape of the screen, not the fact that the screen exists. You should at least read Engadget's blurb before you post your smart ass comments.
Devon @ May 11th 2008 9:25PM
Reading the title and looking at the picture doesn't qualify as reading the story. The fact is not that it's the first time it has every been done but how its been done.
AndrewNeo @ May 11th 2008 9:26PM
On top of that, that looks like an LCD display, not E-Ink.
Aguiluz @ May 11th 2008 9:47PM
Yyyyyeaahhh....
http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/18/toshibas-new-circular-lcds-because-your-eyes-are-round/
audiobxr @ May 11th 2008 9:25PM
Good to see the cranky folks are here.
This e-ink device is 'meh' compared to www.engadget.com%2F2007%2F10%2F18%2Ftoshibas-new-circular-lcds-because-your-eyes-are-round%2F&ei=RpsnSLbYM4_SpgTKk4jFCw&usg=AFQjCNFRcq874YCS-mg20jH18BtaXFd1nA&sig2=-rZwGQF2JWX9Y_-xpszQTQ
so yeah.. still old news
Devon @ May 11th 2008 9:27PM
Hey, this is Engadget! We're ANGRY!!!! :D
Jon Doe. @ May 11th 2008 9:51PM
Not angry....just immature children.
El Taco @ May 11th 2008 10:23PM
and apple fanboys
Chris @ May 11th 2008 9:26PM
this should make for some better keyfob designs...most of they are so chunky and ugly...
audiobxr @ May 11th 2008 9:28PM
let's try that link again...
http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/18/toshibas-new-circular-lcds-because-your-eyes-are-round/
Chris @ May 11th 2008 9:29PM
and circular LCD still != irregular shapes...nice try though...
Benson @ May 11th 2008 9:45PM
More helpfully, circular LCD != (any shape) e-ink.
Power consumption is key for some applications, and e-ink is consequently better. (Key-fobs included.)
Though honestly, I don't see a _lot_ of such applications. Hand-held electronic boardgames, I guess, but most uses will do quite well with pixel-array displays.
audiobxr @ May 11th 2008 9:33PM
Hey look at that... maybe you should use "10% of your brain" and READ.
"Apparently the thing is a proof of concept for new manufacturing technology that can produce an LCD of any shape"
Good on ya though... you know, for trying.
Jon Doe. @ May 11th 2008 10:03PM
audiobxr,
Don't know if you have some sort of mental issue but this entire article...in its entirety has NOTHING, absolutely NOTHING to do with LCD's in irregular shapes. This is about new designs from e-ink that will enable irregular designs.
To put it in context, and to show how much you really do fail, this would be like posting a link to an article that someone has demoed how to use battery packs more efficiently in hybrid electrics for an article on someone increasing the efficiency of flex fuel vehicles. The two have NOTHING to do with one other another then the fact that they are cars.
Your link has nothing to do with this article other then the fact that both are displays. So thanks for trying, but FAIL...spectacularly....consistently....over and over again.
Chris @ May 11th 2008 10:13PM
seeing as though you're a little slow, THIS article is proof that irregular shapes are possible. Your attempt at corrections by posting that circular LCD article proved nothing. Way to be a moron...
azlaxkid42 @ May 11th 2008 11:30PM
pause. how can it be in the shape of a hole?
that seems impossible...
Josh @ May 12th 2008 1:30AM
circular lcd??
so.. it'll be like looking through the helmet of a Big Daddy?
i'm so getting one.
britboyj @ May 12th 2008 1:45AM
Holes? How can you form anything that is, by definition, to a negative?
Surely they mean circle and would therefore make WAY more sense.
Etaanaru @ May 12th 2008 3:07AM
Antimatter, duh.
Faenwolf @ May 12th 2008 4:49AM
Just brilliant for the next Tamagotchi... Or at least a nice watch or so ;-)
TubeTop100.com @ May 12th 2008 7:29AM
I want E-Paper Game & Watch!
Paul @ May 12th 2008 11:15AM
This is actually a cool application of E-Ink. Let's see what else they can come up with.
james @ May 12th 2008 1:01PM
What I would like to know, is can these things display anything, or can it just darken pre outlined section like a digital watch. You will notice with digital clocks, if you look at it in the right light, its all 8s. If this device can get past that it would be a major step forward in keyfob displays.
Chris @ May 12th 2008 2:02PM
I want e-ink displays on cell phones. Imagine it... a screen that you could actually read in the sun. A man can only dream.
Gorilla800lbs @ May 12th 2008 8:28PM
On the left and right edges of the "leaf", there seem to be two more low profile buttons. That's one complicated fob.
CraigJ @ May 11th 2008 10:21PM
Since it's clearly a rendering I guess they can make it as complicated as they want...
andres @ May 12th 2008 9:44PM
is it just me or is there a shrink ray on it?
(look at the bottom left corner)
Daniel @ May 13th 2008 9:17AM
Well I have a Motorola F3 and it has a display from E-Ink that has irregular shaped display sections just like the example shown in the article. So what is actually new here ? That it is thinner ?
Daniel @ May 13th 2008 9:19AM
Ah ok, it's just about the outer shape. Sorry.