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Qualcomm has had this tech for about a decade, but failed to commercialize/improve on it: https://www.theverge.com/2012/7/23/3178117/qualcomm-mirasol-screen-li

• fractallyte 5y ago
  It belongs to Apple now... (https://appleinsider.com/articles/15/12/15/apple-has-taken-over-qualcomms-imod-mirasol-display-lab-in-taiwan https://appleinsider.com/articles/15/12/15/apple-has-taken-o...) And Mirasol is a different technology than Pixel Qi.
  • chrisjc 5y ago
    Wow, I had no idea about this even though I was somewhat following the 'e-ink' technologies quite closely. An ipad with a colored 'e-ink'/LED hybrid screen would be such a perfect tablet in my opinion (even though I've never owned an ipad).
    • bigfudge 5y ago
      It would require a major iOS re-write though. Designing for e-ink is a really different paradigm, both statically and in relation to UX interactions. I just returned an onyx boox note because although the hardware was quite nice, the UI was just garbage. I'm sure Apple could do it, but it does't seem very on-brand for them. I'm waiting of a delivery of an RM2, but I'm still not that hopeful that they have solved the problem of reading an A4 academic PDF. Yet another reason to kill off the commercial academic publishing industry — we can get proper epubs of papers!