Electrowetting Promises Power-Sipping, Daylight Readable Color Displays 63
Dutch researchers are working on a new application of an old technology that could mean bright color displays that draw much less power than conventional LCDs, according to the BBC. In this application, an instance of a technique known as electrowetting, droplets of colored oil in suspension are the basis for the display's colors; each pixel's color is determined by moving the colored oils with electrical current. A prototype reader from Dutch firm Liquivista is shown in the accompanying video; color magazines with 50-60hz refresh time using this display technology are at least a few years out, though. Significantly, these screens are daylight readable, which makes me wonder how they compare to Pixel-Qi style screens in power draw, brightness, and maximum density.
basement dwellers (Score:2, Funny)
Time to invest in those solar tubes to get the sunlight down into the basement for us then.
Re:Interesting technnology, +1 for open source (Score:3, Funny)
Better then being sued by sony for using a music video :)
Electro-wetting? (Score:2, Funny)
Killer name.
Sounds like a combination of Cyberpunk [wikipedia.org] and Depends [depend.com]
Re:Electro-wetting? (Score:1, Funny)
If that's the case, definitely something for iPad 2.0
Re:Where's the last breakthrough? (Score:3, Funny)
What do you mean? An African or European blue?