http://www.engadget.com/2005/07/13/fujitsus-flexible-low-power-color-screen/ Engadget Comments for http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2008 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2005/07/13/fujitsus-flexible-low-power-color-screen/http://www.engadget.com/2005/07/13/fujitsus-flexible-low-power-color-screen/Dec 19th 2005 1:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/07/13/fujitsus-flexible-low-power-color-screen/http://www.engadget.com/2005/07/13/fujitsus-flexible-low-power-color-screen/
1) well how about e-books, why power the screen as the image does not change at all once on a page

2) Digital cameras - again when looking at images you have taken you don't need to screen to be powered (a great battery saver)

And Im sure there are thousands of other uses for power efficiant features like this]]>Dec 19th 2005 1:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/07/13/fujitsus-flexible-low-power-color-screen/http://www.engadget.com/2005/07/13/fujitsus-flexible-low-power-color-screen/Dec 19th 2005 1:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/07/13/fujitsus-flexible-low-power-color-screen/http://www.engadget.com/2005/07/13/fujitsus-flexible-low-power-color-screen/Dec 19th 2005 1:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/07/13/fujitsus-flexible-low-power-color-screen/http://www.engadget.com/2005/07/13/fujitsus-flexible-low-power-color-screen/]]>Dec 19th 2005 1:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/07/13/fujitsus-flexible-low-power-color-screen/http://www.engadget.com/2005/07/13/fujitsus-flexible-low-power-color-screen/
Don't get me wrong, I love the site and visit it every day, but you're rattling off increasingly flippant reports and making yourselves sound dumb.]]>Dec 19th 2005 1:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/07/13/fujitsus-flexible-low-power-color-screen/http://www.engadget.com/2005/07/13/fujitsus-flexible-low-power-color-screen/Dec 19th 2005 1:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/07/13/fujitsus-flexible-low-power-color-screen/http://www.engadget.com/2005/07/13/fujitsus-flexible-low-power-color-screen/Dec 19th 2005 1:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/07/13/fujitsus-flexible-low-power-color-screen/http://www.engadget.com/2005/07/13/fujitsus-flexible-low-power-color-screen/
Another usefull application that hasn't been mentioned is a nice, thin digital photo frame. In the WAY future, big, ever changing billboards.]]>Dec 19th 2005 1:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/07/13/fujitsus-flexible-low-power-color-screen/http://www.engadget.com/2005/07/13/fujitsus-flexible-low-power-color-screen/Dec 19th 2005 1:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/07/13/fujitsus-flexible-low-power-color-screen/http://www.engadget.com/2005/07/13/fujitsus-flexible-low-power-color-screen/Dec 19th 2005 1:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/07/13/fujitsus-flexible-low-power-color-screen/http://www.engadget.com/2005/07/13/fujitsus-flexible-low-power-color-screen/Dec 19th 2005 1:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/07/13/fujitsus-flexible-low-power-color-screen/http://www.engadget.com/2005/07/13/fujitsus-flexible-low-power-color-screen/Dec 19th 2005 1:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/07/13/fujitsus-flexible-low-power-color-screen/http://www.engadget.com/2005/07/13/fujitsus-flexible-low-power-color-screen/Does it not need any power to show the last image for 1/30th of a second or will it stay indefinetly?]]>Dec 19th 2005 1:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/07/13/fujitsus-flexible-low-power-color-screen/http://www.engadget.com/2005/07/13/fujitsus-flexible-low-power-color-screen/Dec 19th 2005 1:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/07/13/fujitsus-flexible-low-power-color-screen/http://www.engadget.com/2005/07/13/fujitsus-flexible-low-power-color-screen/Dec 19th 2005 1:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/07/13/fujitsus-flexible-low-power-color-screen/http://www.engadget.com/2005/07/13/fujitsus-flexible-low-power-color-screen/
Proposal: Imagine a notebook of screen that refreshes with the most recent news articles every time you plug it in, then you can unplug it and take it anywhere you want to actually read the refreshed, static document. Most people with palm pilots, finding them mostly useless, already do this with their sync cradle to get the latest random and unnecessary articles from slashdot [or whatever their popular nonformation outlet is]

Extrapolation: Toss in a small battery, for an upgraded version, to allow the document to display stored sub-articles and then you have a portable, rereshable google news top level newspaper with a hierarchy of articles you can peruse at your liesure - offline and unplugged.

Conclusion: I'm sure some consumer will unnecessarily consume it!]]>Dec 19th 2005 1:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/07/13/fujitsus-flexible-low-power-color-screen/http://www.engadget.com/2005/07/13/fujitsus-flexible-low-power-color-screen/
Ebooks? The only reading in the future might be too-fast blogs like this (until they're replaced by skull sockets).]]>Dec 19th 2005 1:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/07/13/fujitsus-flexible-low-power-color-screen/http://www.engadget.com/2005/07/13/fujitsus-flexible-low-power-color-screen/
Ignoring the fact that anything that saves power is good, lets consider what not needing power supplied unless you change the display means: It means that once you have set your display, you can take it ANYWHERE without need of a battery and it will hold. This is supposed to be E-Paper... the lack of power requirement means that this can be used anywhere that paper can... Can you think of a few uses now?

Sorry if I'm going a little overboard here, but just... wow. This is supposed to be a gadget site... I would really expect the writers to have some understanding of what they're reporting on.]]>Dec 19th 2005 1:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/07/13/fujitsus-flexible-low-power-color-screen/http://www.engadget.com/2005/07/13/fujitsus-flexible-low-power-color-screen/Dec 19th 2005 1:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/07/13/fujitsus-flexible-low-power-color-screen/http://www.engadget.com/2005/07/13/fujitsus-flexible-low-power-color-screen/Dec 19th 2005 1:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/07/13/fujitsus-flexible-low-power-color-screen/http://www.engadget.com/2005/07/13/fujitsus-flexible-low-power-color-screen/Dec 19th 2005 1:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/07/13/fujitsus-flexible-low-power-color-screen/http://www.engadget.com/2005/07/13/fujitsus-flexible-low-power-color-screen/ How about gasoline ad boards at the gas station (again in the farther future, once this stuff becomes more common). They only change their prices a *few* times a day, so why power it all the time.

And if nothing else your system could simply display "System: De-activated" before you turn it off, and they you know that it's off.

It could be nice if as an emergency shutdown procedure happens if it managed to get off an error message, you could read it even if you couldn't get the device back up again. Heck, to a certain extent IT could probably read it if/when you power the machine back up and have a little bit smoother restart (it would know what you were doing before it shut off).

Are ya'll sure this isn't actually a design FEATURE and not just a facet ? I think it's actually got a lot of potential for specific use.

'Course it could be a DANGEROUS feature at that. If you're viewing highly questionable material at work and as your boss comes around the corner you tap the off button and your display just dims slightly but remains completely visible...

BTW, stop beating up on Barb. All Barb did was ask for our/your thoughts on the subject...no need to get testy... :)]]>Dec 19th 2005 1:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/07/13/fujitsus-flexible-low-power-color-screen/http://www.engadget.com/2005/07/13/fujitsus-flexible-low-power-color-screen/Dec 19th 2005 1:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/07/13/fujitsus-flexible-low-power-color-screen/http://www.engadget.com/2005/07/13/fujitsus-flexible-low-power-color-screen/Dec 19th 2005 1:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/07/13/fujitsus-flexible-low-power-color-screen/http://www.engadget.com/2005/07/13/fujitsus-flexible-low-power-color-screen/Dec 19th 2005 1:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/07/13/fujitsus-flexible-low-power-color-screen/http://www.engadget.com/2005/07/13/fujitsus-flexible-low-power-color-screen/Dec 19th 2005 1:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/07/13/fujitsus-flexible-low-power-color-screen/http://www.engadget.com/2005/07/13/fujitsus-flexible-low-power-color-screen/Well beyond the whole "set it and forget it" aspect, if you consider that all of our current display technologies require constant power to keep their images alive, the power savings that could be realized by this new Fujitsu display could be pretty impressive. Seiko has already commercialized a similar monochrome technology that was covered on the site a while ago (their new paperthin clock.)
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still, anyone have some info on update speed of these things?

allso, notice how its readable at a sharp angle while bending, doing something similar to a lcd will atleast produce strange artifacts and discoloring.

this could be the single biggest power saver for laptops and other devices. and it would allso make the idea of a digital picture frame perfectly valid (just update the image and forget about it :P )

so, how soon can they make a screen in about 1024x768? and with atleast 65000 colors :P]]>Dec 19th 2005 1:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/07/13/fujitsus-flexible-low-power-color-screen/http://www.engadget.com/2005/07/13/fujitsus-flexible-low-power-color-screen/If someone mentioned how stupid Barb was with his comment and then started talking about ebooks.
I think that would be super, why hasn't anyone done that yet?
I guess I'll just have to wait....]]>Dec 19th 2005 1:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/07/13/fujitsus-flexible-low-power-color-screen/http://www.engadget.com/2005/07/13/fujitsus-flexible-low-power-color-screen/Dec 19th 2005 1:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/07/13/fujitsus-flexible-low-power-color-screen/http://www.engadget.com/2005/07/13/fujitsus-flexible-low-power-color-screen/
Nowhere in the article does it discuss the potential cost per square inch of this display. Ideas such as "Price tags" may result in not having to walk to the product to change the price, but how often does something sit around long enough for the product to change? and if it does, consider the fact that a roll of price stickers costs about $1.50 - $2.00 and has about 1500 price tags. I seriously doubt these displays will ever be even close to that cheap. Consider the price of a plasma screen television, now consider the cost of one without burn-in, Much much thinner, and the size of a wall. There may be some potential problems with applications such as this as well outside of cost. How far can the signal travel in one of these without serious degredation?

This would be a great thing for E-books, but honestly, I am not sure how much else. Are they durable? if not, cell phones are out. Do they have a decent refresh rate? if not, laptops, PDA's, and many many other applications are out.]]>Dec 19th 2005 1:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/07/13/fujitsus-flexible-low-power-color-screen/http://www.engadget.com/2005/07/13/fujitsus-flexible-low-power-color-screen/Dec 19th 2005 1:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/07/13/fujitsus-flexible-low-power-color-screen/http://www.engadget.com/2005/07/13/fujitsus-flexible-low-power-color-screen/Dec 19th 2005 1:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/07/13/fujitsus-flexible-low-power-color-screen/http://www.engadget.com/2005/07/13/fujitsus-flexible-low-power-color-screen/Dec 19th 2005 1:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/07/13/fujitsus-flexible-low-power-color-screen/http://www.engadget.com/2005/07/13/fujitsus-flexible-low-power-color-screen/
It is perfect for cheating in college exams, Yeah you heard it here first.]]>Dec 19th 2005 1:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/07/13/fujitsus-flexible-low-power-color-screen/http://www.engadget.com/2005/07/13/fujitsus-flexible-low-power-color-screen/
Darn, I won't be able to take advantage of 3 month expired sales at stores anymore. They never seem to replace sale tags at a lot of places. There could be real ROI for any retail establishment that installed these displays.]]>Dec 19th 2005 1:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/07/13/fujitsus-flexible-low-power-color-screen/http://www.engadget.com/2005/07/13/fujitsus-flexible-low-power-color-screen/Dec 19th 2005 1:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/07/13/fujitsus-flexible-low-power-color-screen/http://www.engadget.com/2005/07/13/fujitsus-flexible-low-power-color-screen/Dec 19th 2005 1:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/07/13/fujitsus-flexible-low-power-color-screen/http://www.engadget.com/2005/07/13/fujitsus-flexible-low-power-color-screen/
Actually, it will be commericalized next year. That's "pretty soon" in my books.

http://www.techjapan.com/Article1049.html]]>Dec 19th 2005 1:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/07/13/fujitsus-flexible-low-power-color-screen/http://www.engadget.com/2005/07/13/fujitsus-flexible-low-power-color-screen/Dec 19th 2005 1:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/07/13/fujitsus-flexible-low-power-color-screen/http://www.engadget.com/2005/07/13/fujitsus-flexible-low-power-color-screen/Dec 19th 2005 1:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/07/13/fujitsus-flexible-low-power-color-screen/http://www.engadget.com/2005/07/13/fujitsus-flexible-low-power-color-screen/Dec 19th 2005 1:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/07/13/fujitsus-flexible-low-power-color-screen/http://www.engadget.com/2005/07/13/fujitsus-flexible-low-power-color-screen/
Soldiers who need a map displayed on their forearm but can't carry the battery power to keep the system continually running.]]>Dec 19th 2005 1:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/07/13/fujitsus-flexible-low-power-color-screen/http://www.engadget.com/2005/07/13/fujitsus-flexible-low-power-color-screen/Dec 19th 2005 1:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/07/13/fujitsus-flexible-low-power-color-screen/http://www.engadget.com/2005/07/13/fujitsus-flexible-low-power-color-screen/Dec 19th 2005 1:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/07/13/fujitsus-flexible-low-power-color-screen/http://www.engadget.com/2005/07/13/fujitsus-flexible-low-power-color-screen/Dec 19th 2005 1:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/07/13/fujitsus-flexible-low-power-color-screen/http://www.engadget.com/2005/07/13/fujitsus-flexible-low-power-color-screen/Dec 19th 2005 1:23AM