E Ink's color ePaper tech gets supersized for outdoor displays

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• LongLive@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I hope that this won’t mean there will be more advertising in protected areas because it satisfies new requirements.

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  • singletona@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Narrator: It means there will be more advertising in protected areas because it satisfies new requirements.

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    • jdeath@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      thinking about advertisers, this is the only possible reason why they would adopt such expensive technology

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• Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  That would go great as a rotating poster setup for home decoration.

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• badbytes@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  More targeted advertising, just what humanity needed.

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  • jdeath@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    and! it only costs as much resources as ten million paper posters, but will break after getting rained on thrice

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• punkcoder@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Finally a size / resolution that wont make comics look like garbage.

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• Brunbrun6766@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  What’s wrong with just a paper poster?

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  • DrCake@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    For the company, saves having to send someone out to replace it, instead just update it over 3G or whatever

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    • otacon239@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      In the article it also points out that this means you don’t have to waste paper, which is a plus, assuming they last.

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  • jqubed@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    This is more to replace the digital signs that currently use LCD/LED displays. It’s more readable in the daytime because it doesn’t need a ridiculously bright backlight to compete against the sun. Compared to those signs this uses dramatically less electricity because it only uses electricity when the image changes (reading the article some of the options run off a small battery pack like you could use to recharge your phone a few times). Iirc you also don’t really have burn-in issues with e-ink. It looks like their color reproduction has gotten a lot better with the latest generation, so this could be a really good fit for a lot of outdoor digital signs.

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  • jdeath@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    requires paying humans wages and that is unacceptable! also it only costs ten million times more than a paper poster and it goes into CapEx not OpEx so the government gives it preferential tax treatment

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• singletona@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Could they at least work on getting 60hrz refresh e-ink color monitors? Please?

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  • kayzeekayzee@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Hi! Former E Ink employee here. The technology behind color e ink displays is an intricate nightmare of juggling different ink particles through a gel medium (which is actually derived from pig fat btw). It’s a miracle it even works in the first place, and unfortunately higher color accuracy comes at the cost of refresh rate due to all the steps involved. Not sure how in-depth I can go without violating my NDA though lol.

    While the color tech is advancing, it’s still got a long way to go.

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    • jdeath@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      oh wow haha didn’t realize e-ink isn’t vegan compatible! TIL, thanks

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    • Yprum@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I loved reading your insights on the tech! E ink is such a fascinating tech… Pity about the NDA though, I would love to hear a lot more!

      The title is mentioning e-paper though and if I have understood correctly that could imply a different tech is being used here. So here’s what (I think) I know, e-paper is a broader category that includes other tech that is not e-ink but very low power screens, such as the screen used by the old smart watches Pebble, which had a color memory LCD that could achieve something like 20 fps or something like that? Just enough to create nice animations and fluid UI. Of course changing the screen meant higher consumption, but the LCD could keep the image by using a very low but non-zero energy.

      Although it seems that e-paper and e-ink are commonly just mixed as if they would be the same, while to me e-ink is a type of e-paper. Do you feel my understanding is correct on how the tech is categorised and maybe the screen from the article could be memory LCD or something else that is not e-ink?

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    • MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Far as i know color e-ink is just e-ink with LCD filters?

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