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Japanese watch company Seiko has been making a line of watches with e-ink displays — the same technology used in many e-book readers like the Amazon Kindle — for a few years now, but the latest revision truly ups the ante. And with a product name like “Future Now,” its low-power, crystal clear grayscale screen is sure to catch the eyes (and wallets) of more than a few tech geeks.
The technology that kicks this e-ink watch into overdrive is its active matrix display — the same type of screen technology behind your typical LCD panel. Using active matrix, all of the legibility and low-power consumption benefits of e-ink are combined with a much richer range of imagery and data display. Compared to earlier e-ink watches — whose displays could only render a few hundred individual segments in black or white only — the “Future Now” watch renders 80,000 pixels in four shades of gray, providing 300 dpi resolution for intensely sharp and clear images even within the restricted dimensions of a wristwatch screen.
For those of you who still wear watches, would you want one of these on your wrist? Check out a video of the “Future Now” in action below and let us know what you think.