Neoluxiim demos solar-powered e ink display
By Nilay Patel 
posted July 12th 2009 5:02PM
posted July 12th 2009 5:02PM
posted July 12th 2009 5:02PM
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Just today, I put two bucks in a vending machine to get a $1 snickers bar, then it gave me a dollar!
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If you wanted to read in the dark your completely screwed now.
Reading against the light causes glare too (unless there's something with e-inks).
E-Ink works just like paper. So no.
you'd have the same problem with a book
this is great in places where you do not have power and want to put some ads like hallways, this can work great at the airports as well
oooh, that will make a fine novelty belt buckle.
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OMG! At 0:31 it so disappeared! ME WANT! (>^.^)>
I think I saw a tech just like this at Dollywood Splash Country actually. It was a small keychain, that was solar powered. It would charge about 3 seconds, then light up a color led style display(super thin) that displayed your name in black for about 3 seconds. Looked just like that.
5 bucks.
Pretty cool. But it will be even better when they can integrate the solar panel directly into the display. I don't know how it could work, but perhaps every other pixel could be a solar cell. With small enough pixels and enough resolution you probably couldn't even tell. Hell, while they're at it, might as well throw in a third series of pixels with microlenses on them to also make the whole display a camera.
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Just so you know, you can't have a fixed image behind an e-ink layer. E-ink is totally opaque. The only way they could have that color is having a partially tinted translucent cover.
You cannot have a fixed image *behind* the eInk, since the eInk layer itself would be opaque. Something else is going on here.
i thought thats how the national inquirer did it with their magazine on that one issue. maybe my memory is just hazy.
Esquire is what you're thinking of. However they used a translucent graphic *above* the eInk. Spencer makes a good point below... that's probably what they're doing here too.
ahh, thank you.
That was my first thought too. However, when the screen refreshes you can still see a hint of the "background" image, so I would say that it's a transparent overlay on top of the screen, rather than something *behind* the e-ink panel.
Does anyone else think this is just over-rated smoke and mirrors? obviously I don't mean that literally, but you can get the same effect, series of images not overlapping one another, by having painted glass and then sections of the glass which are lit up to show the image through a dark screen. I mean, I just don't see the promise in this technology. I'm much more interested in bendable OLED screens. If I'm missing something I'd like to be the first to admit I may be missing something crucial here and open minded to be enlightened.
The advantage will using eInk is that it only requires power while refreshing. Thus you can run the whole thing on a small solar cell, as shown here.
My esquire magazine ran for over 6 months before the battery finally gave out.