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electronic ink

n
(Communications & Information) a material consisting of microscopic cells that can be turned from white to black and vice versa with the application of a small electric charge allowing electronically stored text to appear on a paper-like substance
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Originally code-named "EP" for Electronic Paper, it was Microsoft's first piece of commercial application software.
The Smart Patch features a 2" electronic paper display powered by a bistable circuit so there's no need to recharge the battery.
Among others, high-barrier films are increasingly popular to be used for flexible devices like organic EL panel or electronic paper. Gas transmission rate of these high-barrier films needs to be 10-6 g/m2/day or less, which is extremely difficult to measure as absolute amount.
And even as "electronic paper" gets "better and better at mimicking its analog counterpart," great libraries of works, from medieval manuscripts to magazines, are being preserved in their original form -- on paper.
Field teams from the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice (Haia) have arrested two foreigners for practicing black magic and sorcery in Makkah, sabq.org electronic paper reported.
The first always-on premium Android smartphone, complete with a liquid crystal display on one side and an electronic paper display on the other, has gone on sale in the UAE at a retail price of AED 2,199.
The bus stop, near Sandwell and Dudley rail station, has four sunlight powered electronic paper screens, similar to those used in Kindle e-readers, giving them all the latest bus times.
The innovative new phone has a liquid crystal display (LCD) on one side and an electronic paper display on the other, making it the first dual-screen smartphone in the world.
In the same year, the "electronic paper" label was first used by Nick Sheridon at the SID symposium.
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