Review: Phosphor World Time Sport E Ink Watch

Text and photos by Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

E-Ink is that revolutionary display technology that makes eBook Readers render digital files to look almost like printed text on paper.

E-Ink has started to be used in other technologies and seems to be right at home on your wrist as the next revision of the digital watch.  Phosphor's World Time Sport watch uses SURF displays are ultra-low power, thin, and rugged. E Ink's unique reflective display technology is sunlight readable and can display an image even with no power connected to it. This is the watch of the future and it is available today.

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