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E-ink real-time bus timetables in Sydney
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A 'yuge'display brings Trump tweets into your living room
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A cord-free digital sign that will run a year between charges
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9y ago
https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2017/5/1/15504902/gv...
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9y ago
This might explain things a bit more: www.visionect.com/blog/worlds-first-epaper-traffic-signs In short, the signs are paperlike, with a 180-degree viewing angle and no glare, but they do have a frontlight. They connect via 3G and
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Hi, the article is back up. No worries, you're right, the tech is perfectly safe for the road - in traffic signs and in many other applications (www.visionect.com/blog/electronic-paper-truck-displays). So many exciting projec
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https://www.visionect.com/shop/ <- Have you tried e-paper development kits or signs? :)
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Hi, Ursa from Visionect here, the company powering the Sydney traffic signs. To answer your question: electronic paper technology is 99% more power efficient than LCD (uses energy only when changing content). In many applications, it can al
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Sydney’s solar-powered e-paper traffic signs report zero failures since 2013
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Hi there, Ursa from Visionect here. Just a slight clarification: the 9.7 Sign is not a consumer product in the sense of a digital picture frame. Rather it is a sort-of development kit, a blank canvas device on which companies can develop th