Outdoor epaper signage installations have been known to use street lighting to provide enough light for the screen; however, most deployments usually opt for some type of a frontlight, similar to a scaled version of what is available in Amazon Kindle or the Kobo Reader.
When deploying
an outdoor epaper display, protection against vandalism and the elements should be taken into account, as well as the question of integrating frontlights and UV protection.
Not exact matches
The Yotaphone is among a new sub-group of devices attempting to bring battery - saving,
outdoor readable
epaper displays and smartphones together.
The idea of a tablet with an electronic paper display is an intriguing one given the energy - efficiency and
outdoor readability of
epaper displays, but the PaperTab is so far off base that if it were posted at the start of April I would've thought it was a joke.