But one thing
the reflective display technology has always had trouble with is color.
CLEARink announced that it signed a comprehensive materials development agreement with Merck with an aim to bring CLEARink's
reflective display technology to the market by the end of 2017.
Display industry publication Display Daily has reported on Bodle's recent progress in developing a new
reflective display technology, called SRD ®.
E-paper developer CLEARink Displays announced that it has established a joint venture in China with Suzhou Jinfu to commercialize Clearink's breakthrough
reflective display technology for various ePaper applications in China.
CLEARink previously won the award at SID for
this reflective display technology, it uses Total Internal Reflection (TIR) to create white pixels and electrophoresis to create black pixels using black particles in a solution.
CLEARink is a leader in
reflective display technology for eSchoolbooks, wearables, IoT and electronic shelf labels (ESLs), outdoor signage and automotive.
The inherent simplicity of CLEARink's technology means that manufacturing costs will be lower than for any other
reflective display technology, at comparable volumes.
Surely the name Mirasol has flitted across your screen before, being Qualcomm's
reflective display technology that once again, has made an appearance in the form of proof - of - concepts at the SID Display Week.
«The combination of Pixel Qi's low - energy,
reflective display technology with 3M's innovative technologies will create exciting products for the mobile, handheld, tablet and other display markets.»
This same principle as you know applies to
any reflective display technology that uses TFT backplanes.»
But what is especially interesting is the variety of display technologies that are already in play, including a surprise appearance of Qualcomm's Mirasol, a unique color
reflective display technology that has been in limbo for a while.
Not exact matches
This novel
technology hides a small screen behind the
reflective glass of the rear view mirror that can be toggled to
display an always - on rear camera feed.
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Reflective Glass All Round, Tyre Pressure Loss Warning.
According to Professor Alex Henzen, the core member of the SCNU team and technical leader on e-paper, outdoor billboards made of such an electrowetting based
reflective e-paper
technology would take up less than 1 % of the power consumption of LED and TFT - LCD
displays of a similar size, making the new
technology very attractive for the digital signage market.
Color
reflective displays are nothing new, but none of the
technologies touted over the years have been more than adequate.
They are using Neonode's because it is the best
technology for
reflective displays.
FLEx
technologies use an ultra-thin, flexible light guide that can be placed at the front of a
reflective display stack.
At 658.6 mm (H) x 884.3 mm (V) x 1.64 mm (D), the world's largest ePaper
display on the market boasts a resolution of 2160 X 2880 and 85dpi, using a high contrast, highly
reflective ePaper
display provided by the company that pioneered ePaper
technology.
The electrowetting
technology, which operates in transmissive,
reflective, transparent and transflective modes, enables the creation of
displays with bright, colorful images with dramatically reduced power consumption.
New
technologies also includes the new True Tone
display that adjusts white balance according to the background, a brighter
display, and a 40 % less
reflective display than before.
In sunny, outdoor environment, the Z2 Tablet's
display suffers from reflection just like most tablets that use
reflective LED
technology (different from the glare - free E Ink used by Amazon Kindle in its gray - scale models).
OLED is an emissive
display technology - which means that it emits its own light, in contrast to a
reflective display - which uses an external light source - an ePaper
display for example, or an LCD which is a
display that blocks light from a backlight unit.
CLEARink's breakthrough
reflective technology offers full motion video on an ultra low power
reflective display using existing
display fabrications to realize affordable pricing.
A number of
reflective tablet
display technologies have been under long - term development, including E Ink's electrophoretic
displays, Qualcomm's mirasol, Amazon's Liquavista, and Pixel Qi.
It can be built using similar
technology to a standard LCD, used for flexible
displays, and is suitable for the sort of
reflective display used in e-paper, as well as transmissive
displays such as laptops.
Technoframe developed London's first e-paper bus stop
displays and world's first application of e-paper bus destination shields, using the E Ink ®
reflective displays that are powered by Visionect's
technology.
We will be regularly adding the best new Tablets to this Mobile
Display Technology Shoot - Out series — Stay Tuned... We'll also have a
Display Shoot - Out between the Barnes & Noble Color Nook and the Amazon Color Tablet when it launches, plus a series for
reflective Tablets with E-Ink, Pixel Qi and Mirasol
displays.
Bodle says that its
technology, compared to other
reflective and e-paper
displays, offers a wider color gamut, high brightness, lower power and a fast response time - enough to show videos.
As an added bonus, the way in which the
technology works also makes e-paper
displays reflective, which means that the light from the environment is reflected from the surface of the
display towards the user's eyes, just as with traditional paper, with the
display emitting no light itself.
UK - based Bodle, startup developer of the SRD (Solid - State
Reflective Displays)
technology that promises to combine bright and vivid colors with low energy consumption, has raised # 6 million (around $ 8.45 million USD) in Series A funding.
The HUAWEI Ascend W1 has a low
reflective IPS LCD
display with full lamination
technology, which provides brilliant visibility under any lighting condition.
The device has been designed to serve as a second
display for a smartphone, sporting the company's Mirasol
reflective, low - power
display technology for always - on viewing.
Over the course of seven years (from 2004 to 2011), chip giant Qualcomm bought two different startups working on two very different microelectromechanical systems (MEMS)- based
displays: the
reflective iMOD
technology originally developed by Iridigm, and a direct - view micro-shutter
display from Boston - area Pixtronix.
The 1.04 - inch monochrome
display isn't going to win any awards for pixel density, but the 208 x 208 resolution is enough for big, clear graphics, and even with the backlight off the
reflective technology means it's visible even in direct sunlight.
Samsung is also cooking up a hologram
technology that is believed to project three - dimensional images, a transparent screen plus a
reflective display that works akin to a mirror.