With a tablet like the iPad “LCD Writing Tablet” has nothing to do named boogie board: There is a memo, which you can delete a button.
When I first heard of a product, the manufacturer called his “LCD Writing Tablet” and that should be sold for 39 €, I thought of a new phase in the price wars of the Tablets. After the 99-tablet € € now a 39-model? In fact, the designation is not false, but leads in the wrong direction. The Boogie Board is neither a tablet computer, it still has an LCD display, as known from computer screens. Technically it is more akin to magic boards that I remember from childhood – I was surprised that you can still buy these.
The basic principle is the same in any case: it writes or draws on the surface of the panel. If you have enough, you delete the contents of a button. The manufacturer sees the notebook of the future. In fact, the boogie board is quite practical because it needs to draw neither paper nor electricity. Just to clear it needed a little energy, which provides a button cell. With ten deletions per day to keep the memory at least ten years. I’m still not able to test.
Conjure with Crystals
See that on the surface of something, the manufacturer is reached by a trick of the device also has brought his name: Direct plug below the surface that is liquid (liquid crystals, LCs). Depending on how they are oriented, the incident light is reflected or not. By pressing with the stylus or your fingernail to rotate the LCs, so that an impression is created, an image. To delete one need only briefly to create an electric field, and the crystals arrange themselves in the original direction.
With all the electronics has nothing to do, this is despite the use of LCs with a purely analog process. Except that instead of magnetic particles just like earlier in the magic boards now have a more advanced variant is used, which should also be more robust.
When you delete the content entirely forgets his boogie board, it is not possible to save any notes or drawings digitally – you can if need be photographed or put on the copier. The advantage is certainly that slip chaos can not even arise. One should not press the delete button by mistake. At IFA, by the way the manufacturer has a variant called RIP Boogie Board announced that it can store images, and probably goes on sale in November.