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E Ink shows off a foldable e-reader prototype you can take notes on
E Ink display lets you write on it as if it were paper
You can already get e-paper notepads that come close to replicating the feel of writing on dead trees, but E Ink thinks it can do better. The company has unveiled a new film, JustWrite, that promises more natural scribbling. It doesn't require a ba...
Sony’s FES team and New Balance made an e-paper sneaker
The FES Watch was an e-paper fashion accessory borne out of Sony's interesting idea incubator, First Flight. It was one of the earliest products to make it onto Sony's domestic crowdfunding platform, and it was successful enough to warrant a second-g...
Sony’s smaller, cheaper Digital Paper tablet reaches the US
Was your heart aflutter when you heard that Sony was releasing a smaller version of its Digital Paper E Ink tablet? If you live in the US, you can satisfy your heart's desire... well, almost. Sony has started pre-orders for the 10.3-inch model (the...
This e-paper backpack is the kind of crazy we deserve
Just to be clear, this is exactly what you think it is: a backpack with a hole cut in it, and an e-paper display wedged inside. And yes, that e-paper display has my face on it. Normally, this is the time where I'd start talking about hitting peak CES...
Sony’s new e-paper watch actually looks like a timepiece
Earlier this week, Sony introduced its FES Watch U, an e-paper timepiece that it is crowdfunding in Japan. And today, at IFA 2016, we had the chance to see it in person for the first time. As we pointed out before, the FES Watch U is a much more poli...
Sony’s crowdfunded e-paper watch is coming to Japanese stores
Sony's one-of-a-kind FES Watch is about to become more than a clever crowdfunded idea. The mostly e-paper timepiece is going on sale in Tokyo at Omotesando's MoMA Design Store on November 21st, when it will cost you a not-completely-unreasonable &y...
Analyze This: Tokyoflash Rorschach E-Paper Watch
We’ve all seen those Rorschach tests where you have to interpret what you see in a random inkblot. But what if that inkblot wasn’t so random? And what if it wasn’t an inkblot at all but e-paper? And it was a watch? You’d have something cool- the Tokyoflash Rorschach E-Paper Watch. The “inkblot” actually displays the time! There are 3 modes of difficulty you can set, depending on how tricky you want to make it to read the time. Here’s how:
Neat trick. You can also set the display to either positive or negative modes. There’s an alarm, and four different color choices for the case and either a leather or stainless strap. Besides the fashionable style, a really advanced feature is the ePaper display.
ePaper is a low-power technology that only uses power when the display changes. Any part of the display that remains static uses no additional electricity once it’s set. So the display is only using power for about 1 second per minute while it changes minutes over. The watch even has a programmable “sleep” mode, which puts the display into an unchanging design for a set number of hours (say overnight while you sleep). A button push wakes it up. With sleep mode, the watch battery can last as long as 3 years.
Analyze This: Tokyoflash Rorschach E-Paper Watch
Kisai Rorschach ePaper Watch: Blot O’clock
The Kisai Rorschach is the newest watch from Tokyoflash, maker of timepieces that are intentionally bad at presenting the time. The display looks similar to the ink blots used in the eponymous test, but it’s actually easy to decipher. The top right shows the hour and the bottom left shows the minutes. The other two symbols are just mirror images.
The watch has three difficulty modes. Why? Because Tokyoflash. From what I can tell changing the difficulty doesn’t change how you read the display, it just switches to hard-to-read symbols for the numbers. The date and alarm settings are also displayed in the same manner.
Because the watch uses an ePaper display, Tokyoflash added a power-saving sleep mode to the watch. As you may know an ePaper or e-ink display does not consume power if it’s just showing a static image. So in sleep mode the watch will only display one symbol, which will be different depending on what day it is.
Tokyoflash even made a fan video to promote the watch, starring none other than The Watchmen‘s Rorschach. Is it still a fan video if you’re promoting a product? Hmmm.
I wish they didn’t use such a tacky font to print “Rorschach” on the display. Other than that I think it’s a neat design. You can order the watch from Tokyoflash for $179 (USD).