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Orbo E-ink Watch

February 11th, 2011 · 1 Comment · hardware news

A new E-ink watch concept was posted to the Yanko Designs blog today. The Orbo Watch is one that turns standard design on its head.  the active panels are on its hands, not the face of the watch. I don’t think this design is practical; I don’t see how you could wire the faces through [...]

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New E-ink concept watch

January 18th, 2011 · No Comments · e-ink - other uses

Yanko Design posted a new design concept for an E-ink watch. Gone is the traditional dial or LED display; this new watch is divided into 6 discrete segments. Needless to say, I like. Now if only I still wore a watch…

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HP plan to ship Dick Tracy style watch prototypes by end of year

January 17th, 2011 · No Comments · hardware news

But actual production won’t begin for another couple years according to Carl Taussig, the Director of the Information Surfaces Lab at HP. This piece of news isn’t actually new. You might recall that back in September I found a video of Dr. Taussig demonstrating HP’s new screen tech at Stanford. Dr. Taussig mentions the prototypes [...]

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Seiko’s new Eink watch now available through Amazon.co.jp

December 10th, 2010 · No Comments · hardware news

A friend just sent me a link to the product page for the new Seiko Brightz watch with E-ink screen. I’m sure you’ve seen it before but one detail that is new to me is the resolution. They posted some screen shots in the gallery, and they’re all 500×375. That display couldn’t be more than [...]

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Hands on with a new E-ink watch

November 2nd, 2010 · No Comments · video

Charbax is one of those people I follow because he finds neat things. He’s in this video showing off his new E-ink watch. Get this: it has Bluetooth. It’s tied into his phone, and whenever he gets an email the watch notifies him. How cool is that? via Netbook News

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New E-ink Watch from Seiko

March 21st, 2010 · No Comments · hardware news

Seiko announced their second E-ink watch Thursday. The watch has a new display system that is just as legible as the original, but allows for a much richer range of imagery and data to be displayed on the watch dial. The original watch had a segmented display (much like an ordinary watch). This watch replaced [...]

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