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The gameboy (and GBC) screens are very different. They're normal LCD screens with a reflective and scattering layer behind them instead of a backlight. E-ink'
by monocasa 6y ago
The gameboy (and GBC) screens are very different. They're normal LCD screens with a reflective and scattering layer behind them instead of a backlight. E-ink's technology doesn't apply to them.
- AshamedCaptain 6y agoSorry for the confusion, I (as well as the rest of the people who mention it) mean (reflective) LCD overall (since the article is also incorrectly using "e-Ink" ).
- monocasa 6y agoAh, ok. That probably would have been clear to me if I had given your statements the benefit of the strongest argument you could be making. My bad, that's totally on me.
- zokier 6y agoThe primary e ink patents also have already expired, they are from late 90s: https://patents.google.com/patent/US5930026 https://patents.google.com/patent/US5930026
- monocasa 6y agoThat is _a_ patent, which is expired, but not the only patent, or the lynchpin of IP keeping people from independently making e-ink style screens. I generally have rule about being courteous to our fellow HNers and not doing something that could be cited as evidence of willful infringement (and triple damages), but I'll forgo it in this one case with the disclaimer I'll have around it in order to help dispel the rumors going around here that somehow patents aren't at issue. There are also other patents. = = = = = = A C T I V E P A T E N T = = = = = = Do not look at this patent if you work in the space of computer display technology. https://patents.google.com/patent/US9075280B2/en https://patents.google.com/patent/US9075280B2/en = = = = = = A C T I V E P A T E N T = = = = = =