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Now this is quite an interesting idea. With battery life topping the list of concerns for almost every mobile phone user, e-ink seems like a promising energy-saving technology. You see, unlike traditional displays on mobile devices (usually LCD or OLED) that need a constant power supply to be visible, an e-ink display only requires electrical power to change the configuration.
CEACET from Japan is showing off this prototype mobile phone with an e-ink keypad. The e-ink keypad gives you all the benefits of a re-configurable keypad with all the power-saving advantages of a static, hard-key setup. And, the e-ink keypad can preserve tactile feedback while requiring almost no additional power (compared to hard keys).
We’d love to see this idea make it to market, and seeing as how CEATEC already has a prototype out there, we’d say it’s no too unlikely.
[Via: Ubergizmo]
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Will Park
Will hails from The City of Angels - Los Angeles, California. He spends his time playing with his numerous gadgets and looking forward to seeing what future holds for mobile technology. An avid promoter of a fully "digital" life, he promotes the widespread adoption of truly mobile, paper-less living. He dreams of the day when he can go completely digital. No more snail mail, paper receipts, bound books, notepads/spiral notebooks, credit cards, hard currency. He's a digital warrior - fighting for the converged life. He is an idealist and a realist - he has a perfect view of what the world should be but knows that the world is not perfect. Can we ever hope to see Will's dream become reality? We'll see...
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