Philips is no unknown to loosen us with amazing color e - report hope and concepts . They did it in2007 , in2008 , and again this weekend with an example that could make LCD screens feel inadequate .
https://gizmodo.com/lg-philips-lcd-teases-world-with-a4-color-electronic-pa-260104
As I said above , colouring vitamin E - paper boasts and chest thumping from the Philips camp is nothing fresh . However , this current concept ( and really , this is still another tube dream concept for now ) uses a completely new proficiency that preserves screen settlement by literally become the traditional pixel model on its head .
For some desktop , existing e - ink tech in gimmick like Sony ’s Reader and the Amazon Kindle habituate dielectrolysis . This technique sees white atom suspend in a dark liquidness . When an electric subject area is hap through them , they get well-chosen , more vertically up and down , and you may read Stephen King on your Kindle .
But those crazy Philips folk in Amsterdam vaulted over all that and implemented “ in - plane electrophoretics ” so that they could move multi - color bits about horizontally , not vertically . The result could very well rival LCD screen someday :
Each picture element is made up of two microcapsule chambers : one moderate white-livered and cyan mote , the other , below , check Battle of Magenta and black particles . Within each microcapsule , one hardening of dyed particles is bear down positively while the other is point negatively .
By carefully control the potential drop at electrodes lay on the edges of the picture element , it is possible to spread the colored particles across the picture element or remove them from aspect altogether by enshroud them behind the electrodes , says Lenssen . This mean that different shades of color can be attain by controlling how many of each group of coloured corpuscle are visible . To make white , all of the subatomic particle are plainly shifted to the side to reveal the lily-white substratum beneath the two microcapsules .
There ’s more all all this in our hunky-dory Giz Explains lineament about theabsence of a “ perfect ” eReader , which you should check out .
https://gizmodo.com/giz-explains-why-there-isnt-a-perfect-ebook-reader-5152092
Which leads to the inevitable caution . This tech is “ in its infancy , ” not ready , and about three years off , if not more . In the meantime , Amazon would like you to save the newspaper industry by giving them a $ 500 donation ( ed . bank bill – Last bloodline inspired by Mark Wilson ’s Twitter feed . ) [ Technology Review – Thanks , Ron ]
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