ptorrone writes "I picked up the Esquire E-ink'ed cover today and took a bunch of high res photos, For the makers out there... It has: a programming header, 5-pin ISP, a Microchip PIC 12f629 which is flash programmable, 8 pin, 6 lithium coin cell CR2016s, 3 volts each. 2 e-ink screens with flex connections — looks like it was made to be reprogrammed and different screens. The top screen 11 segments, the bottom has 3. It was design 06/04/2008. The PCB was made by Forewin, half thickness, 2 layer board (FR4). I think someone out there will likely reflash the PIC and make the segments go on / off at different time and perhaps put other displays on it, there's a little bit of hacking to be had but not that much really." Link to Original Source
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I know that a proper pixel display would probably have cost too much; but a multisegment display of this sort pretty much kills the hack value. It's too bad. I'd have loved to get my hands on a couple of small e-ink displays for cheap, even if the resolution were modest; but being able to flash the fixed segments in different order is virtually useless. Ah well.
A pity; but not unexpected. (Score:2)