E-Ink introduces new segmented display cell screens -- kind of like old school LCD
By Ryan Block 
posted May 11th 2008 8:26PM
posted May 11th 2008 8:26PM
[Thanks, Pat]
posted May 11th 2008 8:26PM
The number of televisions estimated that sit unused in closets.
The EPA estimates that nearly 100 million unused televisions are currently taking up precious, beautiful space. (source: EPA, July 2008)
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Fix headline please!
and that's my first first post, btw...woot!
The order of posts do not matter. The content of the post does.
BOT, I think that's a prototype. It may be e-ink, it may be not.
and watch your rank go down
Hmmm... Let me try this...
and watch your rank go up
I'm watching both of your ranks go down.
The shape of the image without consequence? Fantastic, but how can you withhold such elementary images for the forthcoming of the seasons?
I wish to explore! To the avast for the alien-workplace?
Such an automotive item!
Holes? How can you form anything that is, by definition, to a negative?
Surely they mean circle and would therefore make WAY more sense.
Antimatter, duh.
WOW! I have never seen anything like that before!
http://salestores.com/stores/images/images_747/APS997.jpg
Notice how your link is a rectangular screen and the above image isn't...way to use less than 10% of your brain there genius...
The news is the shape of the screen, not the fact that the screen exists. You should at least read Engadget's blurb before you post your smart ass comments.
Reading the title and looking at the picture doesn't qualify as reading the story. The fact is not that it's the first time it has every been done but how its been done.
On top of that, that looks like an LCD display, not E-Ink.
Yyyyyeaahhh....
http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/18/toshibas-new-circular-lcds-because-your-eyes-are-round/
pause. how can it be in the shape of a hole?
that seems impossible...
Good to see the cranky folks are here.
This e-ink device is 'meh' compared to www.engadget.com%2F2007%2F10%2F18%2Ftoshibas-new-circular-lcds-because-your-eyes-are-round%2F&ei=RpsnSLbYM4_SpgTKk4jFCw&usg=AFQjCNFRcq874YCS-mg20jH18BtaXFd1nA&sig2=-rZwGQF2JWX9Y_-xpszQTQ
so yeah.. still old news
Hey, this is Engadget! We're ANGRY!!!! :D
Not angry....just immature children.
and apple fanboys
this should make for some better keyfob designs...most of they are so chunky and ugly...
let's try that link again...
http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/18/toshibas-new-circular-lcds-because-your-eyes-are-round/
and circular LCD still != irregular shapes...nice try though...
More helpfully, circular LCD != (any shape) e-ink.
Power consumption is key for some applications, and e-ink is consequently better. (Key-fobs included.)
Though honestly, I don't see a _lot_ of such applications. Hand-held electronic boardgames, I guess, but most uses will do quite well with pixel-array displays.
Hey look at that... maybe you should use "10% of your brain" and READ.
"Apparently the thing is a proof of concept for new manufacturing technology that can produce an LCD of any shape"
Good on ya though... you know, for trying.
audiobxr,
Don't know if you have some sort of mental issue but this entire article...in its entirety has NOTHING, absolutely NOTHING to do with LCD's in irregular shapes. This is about new designs from e-ink that will enable irregular designs.
To put it in context, and to show how much you really do fail, this would be like posting a link to an article that someone has demoed how to use battery packs more efficiently in hybrid electrics for an article on someone increasing the efficiency of flex fuel vehicles. The two have NOTHING to do with one other another then the fact that they are cars.
Your link has nothing to do with this article other then the fact that both are displays. So thanks for trying, but FAIL...spectacularly....consistently....over and over again.
seeing as though you're a little slow, THIS article is proof that irregular shapes are possible. Your attempt at corrections by posting that circular LCD article proved nothing. Way to be a moron...
On the left and right edges of the "leaf", there seem to be two more low profile buttons. That's one complicated fob.
Since it's clearly a rendering I guess they can make it as complicated as they want...
circular lcd??
so.. it'll be like looking through the helmet of a Big Daddy?
i'm so getting one.
Just brilliant for the next Tamagotchi... Or at least a nice watch or so ;-)
I want E-Paper Game & Watch!
This is actually a cool application of E-Ink. Let's see what else they can come up with.
What I would like to know, is can these things display anything, or can it just darken pre outlined section like a digital watch. You will notice with digital clocks, if you look at it in the right light, its all 8s. If this device can get past that it would be a major step forward in keyfob displays.
I want e-ink displays on cell phones. Imagine it... a screen that you could actually read in the sun. A man can only dream.
is it just me or is there a shrink ray on it?
(look at the bottom left corner)
Well I have a Motorola F3 and it has a display from E-Ink that has irregular shaped display sections just like the example shown in the article. So what is actually new here ? That it is thinner ?
Ah ok, it's just about the outer shape. Sorry.