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hackaday.com - 10/14/2008

How-to: Make an e-paper clock from Esquire magazine

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If you’ve never heard about electronic paper, crawl out from under that rock and read up on the Sony Reader and the Amazon Kindle. E-paper is a flexible display made of color-changing beads that mimic ink-on-paper for easy daylight reading. The revolutionary thing about e-paper is that ...

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HOW TO - Make an e-paper clock from Esquire magazine
MAKE Magazine — Nice how-to on making an e-paper clock from Esquire magazine from Ian @ Hack a Day... he writes - If you’ve never heard about electronic paper, crawl out from under that rock and read up on the Sony Reader and the Amazon Kindle. E-paper is a flexible display made of color-changing beads that mimic ink-on-paper for easy daylight reading. The revolutionary thing about e-paper is that after it’s set, it stays that way without additional power. This sounds great in theory, but Esquire’s cover is the first time everybody can afford to hack an e-paper ...

Esquire’s E-Ink Cover Turned Digital Clock
GEARFUSE — ... . We just think it’s a little bulkier than it should be, considering it’s the cover of a magazine. Hack a Day’s Ian Lesnet took the Esquire cover to the lab where they tore it apart like a guinea pig in Biology class. The resulting project formed something useful out of the E-paper cover that anyone can build: a digital clock. It might not be the coup de grâce of all clocks , but it’s still more useful than it was when it was a magazine cover. Link

How to Hack the Esquire E-Ink Cover to Make a Clock [DIY]
Gizmodo — ... revealed that there wasn't much opportunity for meaningful customization outside of changing the timing for each section's blinking. Yeah, that's not all that exciting, but the folks at Hack-a-Day managed to make an interesting (but not super functional) e-paper clock this way—and you can too using their handy instructions. [Hack-a-Day] ...