http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/30/electrofluidic-display-tech-improves-color-e-ink-makes-you-soun/ Engadget Comments for Electrofluidic display tech improves color e-ink, makes you sound smarter http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/30/electrofluidic-display-tech-improves-color-e-ink-makes-you-soun/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/30/electrofluidic-display-tech-improves-color-e-ink-makes-you-soun/Apr 30th 2009 1:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/30/electrofluidic-display-tech-improves-color-e-ink-makes-you-soun/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/30/electrofluidic-display-tech-improves-color-e-ink-makes-you-soun/Apr 30th 2009 1:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/30/electrofluidic-display-tech-improves-color-e-ink-makes-you-soun/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/30/electrofluidic-display-tech-improves-color-e-ink-makes-you-soun/Apr 30th 2009 7:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/30/electrofluidic-display-tech-improves-color-e-ink-makes-you-soun/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/30/electrofluidic-display-tech-improves-color-e-ink-makes-you-soun/Apr 30th 2009 2:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/30/electrofluidic-display-tech-improves-color-e-ink-makes-you-soun/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/30/electrofluidic-display-tech-improves-color-e-ink-makes-you-soun/
E-Ink itself is a brand of "electrophoretic" display. (Which is not the same thing as Electrofluidic)]]>Apr 30th 2009 3:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/30/electrofluidic-display-tech-improves-color-e-ink-makes-you-soun/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/30/electrofluidic-display-tech-improves-color-e-ink-makes-you-soun/
Then after you close it, it erases itself for the next person to use.

Thus, you'll have to pay another 25 cents to read or a swipe of your Starbucks card.

I could see a market for this, if someone's willing to develop it.]]>Apr 30th 2009 9:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/30/electrofluidic-display-tech-improves-color-e-ink-makes-you-soun/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/30/electrofluidic-display-tech-improves-color-e-ink-makes-you-soun/Apr 30th 2009 3:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/30/electrofluidic-display-tech-improves-color-e-ink-makes-you-soun/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/30/electrofluidic-display-tech-improves-color-e-ink-makes-you-soun/Apr 30th 2009 11:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/30/electrofluidic-display-tech-improves-color-e-ink-makes-you-soun/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/30/electrofluidic-display-tech-improves-color-e-ink-makes-you-soun/
Imagine an entire keyboard popping up on the display where you can identify each key entirely by touch. Then later using that same display to sample textures for real-world objects where you can both see the texture and feel it by running your fingers over the displayed sample.

Another option... working with vector drawing tools or 3D modeling software. The anchor points, curve tools and vertices are raised above the lines that make the shape, but the lines themselves are also slightly raised above the shape and the background when you run your fingers over it.

This sort of display could revolutionize the way we interact with our computers, in the right hands.]]>Apr 30th 2009 3:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/30/electrofluidic-display-tech-improves-color-e-ink-makes-you-soun/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/30/electrofluidic-display-tech-improves-color-e-ink-makes-you-soun/Apr 30th 2009 4:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/30/electrofluidic-display-tech-improves-color-e-ink-makes-you-soun/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/30/electrofluidic-display-tech-improves-color-e-ink-makes-you-soun/Apr 30th 2009 6:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/30/electrofluidic-display-tech-improves-color-e-ink-makes-you-soun/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/30/electrofluidic-display-tech-improves-color-e-ink-makes-you-soun/
Unlike a drawing tablet, you wouldn't even need a great deal of accuracy to interact with it since the points would all be a raised surface. Using Z-sorting in the display bumping, points on the object you're editing that are further away from the camera could simply have their bump height and area of influence adjusted relative to the current viewing angle. If the camera or object moves, the Z-sorting would kick in and readjust the tactile features of each point on the fly.

This gets even better if you're using a high-end app like Maya or Blender, that generates context menus around whatever part of the object you're editing. Each of these menus could be tactile buttons themselves. Once you know the position and order of these buttons, you could issue complex commands to your 3D app entirely by touch alone without having to visually interpret every element on the screen, without having to take your attention away from the screen itself to input commands via the keyboard.

An idea even further out... a physical cube with one of these tactile displays on each face running your 3D software with your 3D object contained within the bounds of the cube itself. Editing becomes almost second nature when you actually "feel" the surfaces of your object as you work on it, and special brushes in the software would allow you to further tweak and mold the object like playdoh.]]>Apr 30th 2009 6:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/30/electrofluidic-display-tech-improves-color-e-ink-makes-you-soun/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/30/electrofluidic-display-tech-improves-color-e-ink-makes-you-soun/
Perhaps overlaying it with an LCD blind could prevent such issues. (Such a blind might also be useful for making the display "3D" like the goggles used in movie theaters, depending on the refresh rate...)]]>Apr 30th 2009 4:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/30/electrofluidic-display-tech-improves-color-e-ink-makes-you-soun/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/30/electrofluidic-display-tech-improves-color-e-ink-makes-you-soun/Apr 30th 2009 7:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/30/electrofluidic-display-tech-improves-color-e-ink-makes-you-soun/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/30/electrofluidic-display-tech-improves-color-e-ink-makes-you-soun/Apr 30th 2009 6:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/30/electrofluidic-display-tech-improves-color-e-ink-makes-you-soun/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/30/electrofluidic-display-tech-improves-color-e-ink-makes-you-soun/Apr 30th 2009 8:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/30/electrofluidic-display-tech-improves-color-e-ink-makes-you-soun/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/30/electrofluidic-display-tech-improves-color-e-ink-makes-you-soun/Apr 30th 2009 9:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/30/electrofluidic-display-tech-improves-color-e-ink-makes-you-soun/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/30/electrofluidic-display-tech-improves-color-e-ink-makes-you-soun/Apr 30th 2009 7:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/30/electrofluidic-display-tech-improves-color-e-ink-makes-you-soun/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/30/electrofluidic-display-tech-improves-color-e-ink-makes-you-soun/

No to lcd & oled photo frames

Yes to Colour E-ink photo frames.]]>Apr 30th 2009 7:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/30/electrofluidic-display-tech-improves-color-e-ink-makes-you-soun/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/30/electrofluidic-display-tech-improves-color-e-ink-makes-you-soun/
Something that folks may have missed is that this technology is suitable to display video. That would mean that it would be extremely power efficient for the static portions of the display, while still being able to operate as a video display where needed.

For all I know, this could revolutionize monitor technology in general, with video drivers refreshing only those portions of a display that change. So if you're sitting there, reading Engadget, the monitor doesn't draw any power until you decide to scroll or page down. As long as the display doesn't change, there's no power use.

Animated advertisements would be even less appealing to people; they won't be 'green' because they use power to animate. I'm liking this technology.

Now they just need to get some products out the door. In small lots. Of a few tens of millions to start.]]>Apr 30th 2009 11:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/30/electrofluidic-display-tech-improves-color-e-ink-makes-you-soun/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/30/electrofluidic-display-tech-improves-color-e-ink-makes-you-soun/May 1st 2009 12:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/30/electrofluidic-display-tech-improves-color-e-ink-makes-you-soun/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/30/electrofluidic-display-tech-improves-color-e-ink-makes-you-soun/
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