4 ms·

There's this big discussion about what constitutes "e-paper". Apparently, in some circles, e-paper is any display technology that is low-power and readable in d

There's this big discussion about what constitutes "e-paper". Apparently, in some circles, e-paper is any display technology that is low-power and readable in daylight. The display in a pebble is a low-power transflective LCD display manufactured by Sharp. In Sharp's product brochure, they don't use the term e-paper though. They only say the display is "paper-like".

jlgreco 13y ago
Wait, is this "low-power LCD" stuff seems an awful lot like what I had in my quartz crystal watch in the 90s. Sure that wasn't "smart" and didn't display raster graphics, but otherwise are we talking about fundamentally different technology?
- Pxtl 13y ago
  Yeah, it sounds a lot like my Zire 21. Thing had great readability at any light level, because it was just plain grey high-res LCD.
  - jlgreco 13y ago
    Ah yeah. I was thinking more of the "preset image"/"seven-segment" style LCDs, but that is even closer to this it seems.
sigkill 13y ago
Hmm I find that a bit... different to my expectations. I'd always thought that e-paper absolutely required to be bistable, like paper.