Do you keep your smartphone display brightness on a low level, usually? Are there times when you stop locking and unlocking your devices just to avoid putting the display on? We've all faced battery drainage problems because of the high-end displays that smartphones and tablets sport these days. Be it the iPhone 6s' Force Touch display or Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge Plus' AMOLED display, or even the standard OLED and LCD displays that one finds on most devices, the major cause of a depleting smartphone battery is the display, as it consumes the most amount of energy. Soon, all this might change.
A new breakthrough in display technology is being developed by Bodle Technologies which will make displays consume extremely little amount of charge from the battery of your smartphone or tablet. Rather than using an LCD or OLED display, the reflective display being developed by Bodle will use electronic pulses to produce vivid colours on a display. The material with which it's made requires very little power, and only a brief amount of charge, to produce various colours. It is capable of providing vivid colour displays, which appear similar to paper, yet with very high resolution. It is also capable of rendering extremely high-resolution videos that can be seen in bright sunlight,” said Dr Peiman Hosseini, Founder of Bodle Technologies.
The company is already in talks with a number of OEMs, and has also received a substancial amount of funding for this project from Oxford Sciences Innovation fund. “You have to charge smartwatches every night, which is slowing adoption. But if you had a smartwatch or smart glass that didn’t need much power, you could recharge it just once a week,” claimed Hosseini. Apart for helping devices become more energy efficient, this technology can also be used in smart glass application, helping keep building temperatures lower by blocking out infrared waves.