Is there a Future in Color E Ink?

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Good news: in May 2016, E Ink have launched Advanced Color ePaper, the first true color electronic ink technology. It's coming to eReaders in the next couple of years (source : http://pocketnow.com/2016/05/26/advanced-color-epaper).

hey guys. I just recently purchased the Peebles Time 4.0 smart watch that uses the e-ink display. I don't have to worry about charging it for 5 or six days and that works great for my work week.

The colors are nice and yes they don't compare to my Samsung tablet or my very reliable Nook HD+, I got the Pebble because it has the best battery life bar none because of the e-ink display.

I wanted a smart watch that was good for making quick voice notes, and was absolutely readable in the sun; the Pebble with the e-ink display does all the above.

E-ink will find its place in the world of gadgetry, it will be in places like the kitchen appliances, cars, advertising signs or even in grocery stores to save on paper and trad-ink by replacing the price signs on the shelves to name a few.

hello I come to tell the truth about the eink technology, the companies that make the screens are selling to other companies as dasung, kindle etc. the first technology, this technology has existed for a long time, the game boy had this type of display color and movement, what happens is that companies want to sell the worst technology for greater long-term gains, because if sights on youtube the company eink already has the technology to make screens with completely clear video, but all they do is play with us by selling it as new when several years ago and could play video games with a little color is why I hate these companies as if they were selling new technology

hi. the e ink color will never hit the brillance of a tablet. A tablet uses additive color which can have a much larger contrast and color depth.
E ink uses reflective or subtractive color and cannot get any brighter or have more contrast that the color droplets in the cell. the brighter the light source the more washed out it looks.

i love the idea of a color e ink watch or phone cover

Colored e-ink would be great for comics...

Tablets make your eyes tired give you a headache after a few hours reading... that's the problem!!! while ebooks doesn't BUT there is no fun on reading black and white comic books...... what is taking so long for them to change that??????

Its good if they make this in to clothing(who wanna buy it?)

Any updates on colour e-readers? I just need colour for comics not games, apps or anything else fancy.

Hi Guys!
I would love the have a color e-ink reader for taking notes at the university. If you have only black and white you can't highlight anything. Your notes look to plain, nothing stands out.

I believe future e-ink will have full true colors. But, probably not with current technology. More research should be done on color e-ink and much faster & smoother refresh rate.

I really just want color for comics and book covers. I'd be willing to spend $300 MAX if they added color. even if it's not vibrant. I don't like reading on tablets bc the light gives me a headache. I absolutely love reading on my kindle but reading a comic that you KNOW has beautiful colors just feels disappointing to even look at. Im perfectly fine with the way ereaders are, just a little color would be nice. If I wanted a tablet, I would just buy a tablet.

I think it is similar to printers. For long time cheap colour printing is available, but 95 % of documents printed are in B&W. Because there is no need for colour to be printed.

In 2011 I bought kindle touch with adds for 99 dollars, looked up in wiki it was 139 with no adds at that time. 4 years later not much has changed except for adding light, but they removed audio function that I occasionally used.
Comparing last 3 paperwhite versions there is almost no difference at least not enough to upgrade if you have any previous version.
In 2011 I was hoping that if things move so nice as they did last few years, then in 2012 or 2013, 6 inch device should be under 50 dollars and 10 or maybe 13 inch devices will be available or 100 to 150 dollars. But for some reason only 6 inch models are produced and the price does not drop any more. Readers larger than 6 inch are too expensive for what they can do.

Any updates?

I think the focus groups are producing invalid results. did they tell these people who complained the color sucks that they can go a week with out recharging it?

A lot of people hate the battery life on current tablets. I think a color E-ink full android tablet with the reader program optimized to shut down the cpu between turns would get a lot of customers. The argument you guys make about the screen refresh is largely invalid these days, they have demoed 30fps (ish) video on eink and its not great but its watchable.

Granted playing said video would put the battery back in line with LCD but if you only did a little video a day, mainly web browsing and E reading(text books, fiction or work docs);

one could anticipate a device that could do it all at a slightly lower quality than lcd but wouldnt need to be recharged until maybe the 3rd day of use. It also would enable you to use it outside.

all they would need to start hooking university students is:
6 bit color (enough to view diagrams and charts in textbooks)
android (facebook, twiter, full browser)
3 day battery life with lite web.
internal specs similar to a galaxy 3 (not great but they arnt gonna game on it anyway)
reader app that kicks it into a kindle like mode (internals sleep between page turns...remember e-ink kindles run modified android so its not an impossible task to do this)

do this and i believe the benefits of muli day battery life, sunlight readability and reduced eye strain will draw customers in.

I also wonder if the high price is due to the low demand, they arnt selling it in volume so its more expensive

The Pebble Watch

It was so annoying to see the guy on the left just keep on playing with the screen during the whole conversation! Wow!

There are better use cases for E Ink than readers. For example we'll soon start seeing more uses on walls and other parts of buildings. Perhaps one day street signs will become E Ink enabled. Lot's of use cases

You don't think so? Judging by the channel name I assume you know what an e-reader would be doing, they were never meant to compete with tablets at all. That's why their screens were not tablet material even back when companies used mono LCD screens. E-readers compete with books, they compete with plain text on paper. 12 bit color would only enhance the reading experience and add to what it could replace.

Like others have mentioned, 12 bit color is more than enough for school textbooks, graphs, comic books, PDFs, newspapers or even just different colored text within a story. It definitely has a future if we want to go paperless but still have the benefits of reading 'paper'. Yes a tablet can do anything an e-reader can in functionality. But I wouldn't be able to read on some bright tablet screen for more than a few hours in the best of times. Not to mention battery life.

The other thing this'll be good on as everyone else said, is smart watches (lol) because I sure know that if I have a smart watch I Definitely won't care about watching tiny movies or sharing pictures (or taking pictures) on a watch if I have my phone with me anyway. I see this as being an excellent secondary low power display technology for a variety of devices, but until a company starts using their collective brains and stops comparing this kind of screen technology to one you'd see in a phone or tablet, it will not go anywhere.