E-Paper Mobile Phone Keypad - DoCoMo : DigInfo

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Docomo has developed a prototype handset which features an e-paper keypad, which allows the keys to display different characters depending on the context or application which is running. The e-paper, developed by SiPix Imaging, is different to electronic ink in that the paper uses small chambers, called microcups, which are filled with white particles and a coloured liquid, allowing the e-paper to display two colours. When using the calculator feature on the phone, the regular function keys at the top of the keypad can also change into mathematical symbols. Docomo has been researching an e-paper keypad for 2 years and hope to harness this technology to make mobile phones easier to use by the elderly and those not accustomed to using a mobile phone. Currently the keypad can only display three different characters in one button area and there is a also delay of about a second when changing from one character set to another, Docomo plans to improve these two issues before making the technology commercially available.

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[lolchina]

ovo kupujem

[FATLACE420]

BUTTERSHOES

[Vanessatterfly]

@rusurazvan yep, it is used to translate

[rusurazvan]

chinese write messages in english?

[ROMEO1O1]

PEOPLE this video was released in 2007 that was long time.... Were in 2010

That's old technology

[phokia2]

wow...amazing

[Rawrzellers]

psssh you see Japan had that shit down in 07 and now they are using it just now as a selling point for one of Verizon's phones.

[haruhi777suzumiya]

thats cool ive never seen a phone that can switch letters (characters)

[123syflox123]

hey look at the alias 2

[oldskoolchomp]

i-phone = lcd

e-paper = awesome

stfu