E Ink debuts a new electronic drawing technology

E Ink — a epithet synonymous with e-reader screens — simply debuted a brand-new writing spectacle technology called JustWrite. The tech offers the company’s familiar monochrome aesthetic — albeit in negative this time, with lily-white on pitch-black.

The key here, as with the majority of E Ink’s technology, is minimal energy consumption and low cost, the latter of which it was able to accomplish by dropping the TFT( thin-film-transistor LCD ). Instead, it’s a thin roll that are able to article surfaces like conference rooms and academies, in order to give people write on the walls employing a stylus with basically no latency, as evidenced in the below GIF.

“The JustWrite film facets one of E Ink’s proprietary electronic inks and offers similar interests as E Ink’s other product lines: a paper-like suffer with a good differ and reflective display without a backlight, ” the company writes. “The JustWrite film is an all plastic parade, compiling it unusually durable and lightweight, with the ability to be affixed and removed readily, permitting writing faces in a variety of locations.”

The technology could go leader to intelligence with the likes of Sony and remarkable on drawing tablets, but E Ink appears to be more interested in embedding it in non-traditional surfaces. No utterance yet on how or when it will come to sell, though the company is showing it off in person for the first time the coming week at an affair in Tokyo.