The good old digital watch, a favourite of the 80’s and early 90’s is seeing a resurgence in popularity. Of course giants such as Timex and Casio never stopped producing them, so to make an kind of impression in the digital watch market you have to do things at least a little differently, and preferably a whole lot differently.
Phosphor Watches solution is E-Ink based watches, and they recently released the World Time E-ink Digital Display watch. The World Time features a curved E Ink display that is form-fitted to your wrist. The extreme contrast of the e-ink paired with the ability to track any time zone makes for a potent package for the digital connoisseur.
The new World Time Curved E Ink digital watch offers the ability to select from 24 time zones from one display mode, while optionally displaying a second time zone at the same time.
You can also configure the dual time zone display to simply display the time of day or both the date and time in either over-sized or conventional-sized segments. These unique capabilities are packaged in a sleek, ultra-thin, curved case only 9.3mm thick.
But what exactly is E-ink?
E-ink or Electronic ink is a proprietary material that is processed into a film for integration into electronic displays. Revolutionary in concept, electronic ink is a fusion of chemistry, physics and electronics to create this new material. The principal components of electronic ink are millions of tiny microcapsules, about the diameter of a human hair. In one incarnation, each microcapsule contains positively charged white particles and negatively charged black particles suspended in a clear fluid.
When a positive electric field is applied, the white particles move to the top of the microcapsule where they become visible to the user. This makes the surface appear white at that spot. At the same time, an opposite electric field pulls the black particles to the bottom of the microcapsules where they are hidden. By reversing this process, the black particles appear at the top of the capsule, which now makes the surface appear dark at that spot.
