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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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