Colour e-ink
May 13th, 2009 by rbanks
Color E-Paper That Rivals the Real Thing
“Color displays normally require four subpixels–red, green, blue, and white–to create each full-color pixel. “That costs you in terms of resolution,” says Pieter van Lieshout, head of product research and development for Polymer Vision, which was spun off from Philips Electronics three years ago to develop flexible electronic-paper displays. […] In contrast, Philips Research’s approach involves turning the traditional electronic-paper pixel quite literally on its side, in order to tune it to different shades of the spectrum. ” 
Technology Review
