After revealing a brand new and improved model of its e-paper shade shows to be used in signage and digital posters a number of weeks in the past, E Ink is now giving us a take a look at a new version of its color e-paper designed to be used in e-readers and e-notes. The newest upgrades might make the brand new show tech an attention-grabbing various to LCDs and OLEDs in different units.

Back in September of 2020, we went hands-on with the primary consumer-ready units that used E Ink’s first-generation shade digital paper show know-how recognized merely as Kaleido. Both the PocketBook Color e-reader and the Hisense A5C smartphone felt revolutionary after having solely black and white digital paper shows to stare at for nearly twenty years.

But on the identical time, E Ink’s shade e-paper screens had been removed from excellent, requiring a powerful gentle supply (just like the solar) for max shade saturation, and backlighting that had no heat changes to make sure shade copy remained correct. The screens had been nonetheless simpler on the eyes for extended durations than LCDs or OLEDs might be, however Kaleido wasn’t fairly prepared to exchange both altogether.

Kaleido was adopted by Kaleido Plus which supplied some key enhancements, however it’s now being changed by the contemporaryly introduced Kaleido 3. We haven’t had an opportunity to go eyes-on with Kaleido 3 simply but, however in keeping with E Ink, “by optimizing the design of the ePaper module structure, E Ink Kaleido 3 has increased its color saturation by 30 percent compared to the previous generation.” That’s not a stark distinction on paper (pun supposed) and Kaleido 3 nonetheless solely helps 4,096 colours, however in particular person, the enhancements between variations are normally way more apparent.

E Ink additionally claims that Kaleido 3, which shall be out there in three sizes (7.8-inch, 10.3-inch, and 13.3-inch) for the whole lot from e-readers to bigger tablets, employs a brand new entrance gentle know-how that reduces the quantity of blue gentle bouncing off the display screen to make studying simpler at night time with out resorting to hotter shade temperature choices for the LEDs which might throw off the accuracy of the colours being displayed.

The most attention-grabbing improve with Kaleido 3 is that E Ink claims the responsiveness of the show has been improved which “enables the module to play animations and videos, providing new options for digital reading and writing in educational and professional applications.” Watching movies on a tool utilizing a Kaleido Plus show wasn’t unimaginable, but it surely wasn’t a completely nice expertise both, so we’re cautiously optimistic about whether or not or not the Kaleido 3 show can be utilized for extra than simply studying or taking notes.