
Advantages of e-paper
- Flexible, or at least bendable
- Cheap maybe not as cheap as paper, but easily affordable by everyone
- Bistable, once a display is written it will stay displayed even when power is switched off.
- Light weight, at most comparable to an equal sized sheet of card.
- Excellent ergonomic features, easy to hold, carry, and use.
- readable in any ambient light conditions.
Siemens developed wafer-thin color displays that can be printed onto paper or foil. They can be manufactured very inexpensively, compared to LCDs. Wafer-thin displays offer great market potential in the area of future advertising and information provision by means of interactive packaging. Color displays could in the future display information practically everywhere on cardboard foodstuff containers, drug boxes, or even admission tickets.
Potential advantage of e-paper technology is staggering. In addition to a new method for labelling foods and drugs, it could be used to label anything from shelves to office binders. One of the original uses of the Gyricon e-ink was in advertising and billboards. The bi-stable nature of the technology made the Gyricon a useful and cost-effective billboard technology. E-paper displays can also be used as low-power digital screens for a variety of electronic appliances, from microwaves to MP3 players.
References:
1. http://www2.parc.com/hsl/projects/gyricon/
2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6bkmPjVF-k
3. http://www.eink.com/
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