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Comment by nxobject

10 days ago

As a consumer product example: e-ink readers. (Of course, it helps as well that the GameBoy had no radios etc...)

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rbanffy  9 days ago

E-ink use energy when changing state. A 30fps 3D game would require a lot of energy. Also, e-ink is electromechanical in nature, so there would be a lot of wear as well.

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