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A billboard sized e-ink display is just a flip-disc display. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flip-disc_display http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flip-disc_display The
by qbrass 12y ago
A billboard sized e-ink display is just a flip-disc display.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flip-disc_display http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flip-disc_display
The magic of e-ink is in making the pixels small enough to provide a useable resolution on small screens.
- snogglethorpe 12y agoBeing electromechanical though, flip-disk displays apparently have significant maintenance costs, as display elements fail quite frequently. Eink would probably be much better on that front, which would be very beneficial for applications in hard-to-service locations ... like billboards... One of the earliest applications of eink (before eink "paper" was a thing) was actually in advertising signs with huge feature sizes (10s of cm), so big pixels are not something new to eink.