This was essentially a reintroduction of the well -
known electrophoretic display technology, but microcapsules meant the display could be made on flexible plastic sheets instead of glass.
Not exact matches
That first - generation Kindle used a technology called microencapsulated
electrophoretic display, colloquially
known as electronic ink, or e-ink.
The strictly technical term for the technology is
electrophoretic display, or EPD, but e-paper and e-ink are more widely
known.
These
displays are
known scientifically as
electrophoretic, and involve the arrangement of pixels on a screen like you would draw on an Etch - a-Sketch.