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Men’s E-ink Watches – Latest Watch Technology
Watches using e-ink displays are the latest development in the watch market, a completely new look of watch. There have been many developments in watch design before, but this one is visually a very big change indeed, it could be the biggest. Previously the LED watches of the seventies caused a big change in watch appearance. Now it is the turn of the e-ink display to be the catalyst for a whole new range of wristwatch designs.
Previous changes in technology, although producing different ways of displaying the time, did not have a significant effect on the size of the display, they remained much the same. E-ink has changed the size and appearance considerably. Watch designers have been given possibilities to explore, this has produced some radical new watch designs.
Electronic ink or e-ink is a proprietary material that is processed into a film for integration into electronic displays. This revolutionary concept, electronic ink, fuses chemistry, physics and electronics to create this new material.
Watch designers are making use of the fact that e-ink displays can be formed into large curved displays. This has resulted in watches that can curve around the wrist, creating a whole new range of wristband style watches. This has resulted in some watches that will no doubt be appearing in films that are supposed to be set in the future. However unlike the LED watch that appeared in the classic sci-fi film 2001: A Space Odyssey, the watch is in production first. Displays have up until recently have been only in black and white or gray scales, but e-ink displays are here now and will no doubt appear in e-ink watches too. Presently the e-ink displays you are most likely to have seen are not in watches, but more likely to be found in e-readers such as Amazon’s Kindle reader.
One of the advantages of this new type of display is the low power consumption. E-ink displays are what is known as bi-stable, once displayed it requires little or no power to maintain it, power is mainly used in the process of changing a display. A display can remain for weeks or months at little energy cost. This is not as useful to watches as e-readers, but it still is useful to a lesser degree.
Many of these watches with e-ink displays are in the form of wristband watches, these styles have a uni-sex look. Probably color will determine who buys what watch at the moment, but expect to see watches designed to appeal to the men’s and women’s market separately too.
E-ink displays are aimed to look like printed pages, with a natural high contrast between black and white. It is also possible to reverse the displays, so you can either have black letters or numbers on a white background or white letters and numbers on a black background. With a bigger display than other watches even without backlighting watches are easily read in most conditions.
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Who did you prefer to watch Benn or Eubank?
Nigel Benn, Chris Eubank.
Both in their primes. Why did you prefer one to the other!
I will go first, I personally preferred Eubank, just because I found his personality and manners hilarious. For someone so ferocious, and damaging, he was such a gent! Perhaps even too much of one!
Thanks, Joe
it has to be Eubank he was one of boxing’s best characters and had classic fights against benn watson collins etc but i thought he lost something after the watson fight i always wished that he had of fought on a huge american supercard
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