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Digital Paper displays
In the current issues of aviation magazines, there are ads for eFlyBook.
This device contains various flight documents for power pilots, but the interesting part is the use of a "digital paper" display. Other than retail store signs, this is the first commercial use of digital paper that I have seen. Digital paper is a technology that uses tiny rotating beads, black on one side and white on the other, electrostatically rotated, forming a non-volatile, non-luminous display. The upside is that it is clearly visible in full sunlight! The downside is that right now DP is limited to monochrome. I am hoping that the PDA makers will someday produce a DP-based unit, which might eventually be useful with SeeYouMobile, WinPilot and the like. It's really hard to see the display on my HP IPAQ in the cockpit, even though the one I selected was recommended as one of the most visible. I did some searching and did not find any hints of such a product yet. Anyone have more information? |
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Roger Worden wrote: In the current issues of aviation magazines, there are ads for eFlyBook. This device contains various flight documents for power pilots, but the interesting part is the use of a "digital paper" display. Other than retail store signs, this is the first commercial use of digital paper that I have seen. Digital paper is a technology that uses tiny rotating beads, black on one side and white on the other, electrostatically rotated, forming a non-volatile, non-luminous display. The upside is that it is clearly visible in full sunlight! The downside is that right now DP is limited to monochrome. I am hoping that the PDA makers will someday produce a DP-based unit, which might eventually be useful with SeeYouMobile, WinPilot and the like. It's really hard to see the display on my HP IPAQ in the cockpit, even though the one I selected was recommended as one of the most visible. I did some searching and did not find any hints of such a product yet. Anyone have more information? Colour is overated in the cockpit. Far prefer my monochrome palm running soaringpilot to my colour ipaq running seeyou mobile Clinton Lak 12 |
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Roger Worden wrote: In the current issues of aviation magazines, there are ads for eFlyBook. This device contains various flight documents for power pilots, but the interesting part is the use of a "digital paper" display. Other than retail store signs, this is the first commercial use of digital paper that I have seen. Digital paper is a technology that uses tiny rotating beads, black on one side and white on the other, electrostatically rotated, forming a non-volatile, non-luminous display. The upside is that it is clearly visible in full sunlight! The downside is that right now DP is limited to monochrome. I am hoping that the PDA makers will someday produce a DP-based unit, which might eventually be useful with SeeYouMobile, WinPilot and the like. It's really hard to see the display on my HP IPAQ in the cockpit, even though the one I selected was recommended as one of the most visible. I did some searching and did not find any hints of such a product yet. Anyone have more information? Colour is overated in the cockpit. Far prefer my monochrome palm running soaringpilot to my colour ipaq running seeyou mobile Clinton Lak 12 |
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If you want to pay $3000 you can buy one of the prototype kits from
E-Ink (display maker). It is a fully functional system running a version of Linux. You might be able to then run Cumulus (http://www.kflog.org/cumulus/). It's he only soaring app that I know of that runs under linux. Later! -Mark Clint wrote: Roger Worden wrote: In the current issues of aviation magazines, there are ads for eFlyBook. This device contains various flight documents for power pilots, but the interesting part is the use of a "digital paper" display. Other than retail store signs, this is the first commercial use of digital paper that I have seen. Digital paper is a technology that uses tiny rotating beads, black on one side and white on the other, electrostatically rotated, forming a non-volatile, non-luminous display. The upside is that it is clearly visible in full sunlight! The downside is that right now DP is limited to monochrome. I am hoping that the PDA makers will someday produce a DP-based unit, which might eventually be useful with SeeYouMobile, WinPilot and the like. It's really hard to see the display on my HP IPAQ in the cockpit, even though the one I selected was recommended as one of the most visible. I did some searching and did not find any hints of such a product yet. Anyone have more information? Colour is overated in the cockpit. Far prefer my monochrome palm running soaringpilot to my colour ipaq running seeyou mobile Clinton Lak 12 |
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Hi,
I was very curious about the display so I called the manufacturer of the hardware. I like the large size and sunlight readability. But they said it had a very slow update rate that probably wouldn't work well for a moving map display. Paul Remde "Roger Worden" wrote in message t... In the current issues of aviation magazines, there are ads for eFlyBook. This device contains various flight documents for power pilots, but the interesting part is the use of a "digital paper" display. Other than retail store signs, this is the first commercial use of digital paper that I have seen. Digital paper is a technology that uses tiny rotating beads, black on one side and white on the other, electrostatically rotated, forming a non-volatile, non-luminous display. The upside is that it is clearly visible in full sunlight! The downside is that right now DP is limited to monochrome. I am hoping that the PDA makers will someday produce a DP-based unit, which might eventually be useful with SeeYouMobile, WinPilot and the like. It's really hard to see the display on my HP IPAQ in the cockpit, even though the one I selected was recommended as one of the most visible. I did some searching and did not find any hints of such a product yet. Anyone have more information? |
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Colour is overated in the cockpit. Far prefer my monochrome palm running soaringpilot to my colour ipaq running seeyou mobile Clinton Lak 12 The trick is to be very selective in what color is displayed. Most moving map data is eye candy only, especially on flatlands. The nice thing about Seeyou mobile is you can tailor the display to show just what you want, and make the lines big enough and dark enough to be seen easily on an iPaq in direct sunlight. When terrain is desirable (such as in ridge country), again the map can be setup to only show the ridges that are of interest. Takes some time at home to tweak, but worth it! Kirk 66 |
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Roger Worden wrote:
In the current issues of aviation magazines, there are ads for eFlyBook. This device contains various flight documents for power pilots, but the interesting part is the use of a "digital paper" display. Other than retail store signs, this is the first commercial use of digital paper that I have seen. Mororola's new F3 mobile phone, which apparently has just started shipping in India, uses an E ink display. Its a low cost phone aimed at 3rd world users. The display retains what it was last showing when the phone is turned off. If you want to check the display legibility, details and photos are he http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/11...hips_motofone/ -- martin@ | Martin Gregorie gregorie. | Essex, UK org | |
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On Dec 9, 12:38 am, "Roger Worden" wrote:
In the current issues of aviation magazines, there are ads for eFlyBook. This device contains various flight documents for power pilots, but the interesting part is the use of a "digital paper" display. Other than retail store signs, this is the first commercial use of digital paper that I have seen. Digital paper is a technology that uses tiny rotating beads, black on one side and white on the other, electrostatically rotated, forming a non-volatile, non-luminous display. The upside is that it is clearly visible in full sunlight! The downside is that right now DP is limited to monochrome. I am hoping that the PDA makers will someday produce a DP-based unit, which might eventually be useful with SeeYouMobile, WinPilot and the like. It's really hard to see the display on my HP IPAQ in the cockpit, even though the one I selected was recommended as one of the most visible. I did some searching and did not find any hints of such a product yet. Anyone have more information? eInk has a terribly slow update rate, such that entry of a numeric value the way we do it in the SN10 is very difficult. Also high UV sensitivity. It is definitely a technology to watch but has a long way to go prior usability for flight computers. As a replacement for very static display (ie, paper map), it is quite good. Extremely high contrast (better than newsprint, much much better than LCD). First consumer product to use this was a Japanese-only eBook a couple years back, followed by the recently available in USA model. Best Regards, Dave PS: Anyone that attended my SSA talks on past&future glider instrumentation a few years back, already knew this ;-) |
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About time that there is a cell phone with a screen that can be read
when outside. Martin Gregorie wrote: Roger Worden wrote: In the current issues of aviation magazines, there are ads for eFlyBook. This device contains various flight documents for power pilots, but the interesting part is the use of a "digital paper" display. Other than retail store signs, this is the first commercial use of digital paper that I have seen. Mororola's new F3 mobile phone, which apparently has just started shipping in India, uses an E ink display. Its a low cost phone aimed at 3rd world users. The display retains what it was last showing when the phone is turned off. If you want to check the display legibility, details and photos are he http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/11...hips_motofone/ |
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Martin Gregorie wrote:
Roger Worden wrote: In the current issues of aviation magazines, there are ads for eFlyBook. This device contains various flight documents for power pilots, but the interesting part is the use of a "digital paper" display. Other than retail store signs, this is the first commercial use of digital paper that I have seen. Mororola's new F3 mobile phone, which apparently has just started shipping in India, uses an E ink display. Its a low cost phone aimed at 3rd world users. The display retains what it was last showing when the phone is turned off. If you want to check the display legibility, details and photos are he http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/11...hips_motofone/ Here is more about the technology, plus a photo of a screen that seems about the right size for a glider cockpit: http://linuxdevices.com/news/NS9257262400.html |
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