Newest Seiko Watch
Seiko Watch Corporation has collaborated with E Ink Corporation, and Seiko Epson Corporation to produce, in 2005, the first watch to use an electronic paper display.
The Seiko Watch firm has been recognized as an innovator since it began in 1881, beginning with its first Seiko watch in 1913 in Japan and its debut of the first quartz timepiece in the world in 1969. The Seiko Watch marketing program is superb and all-encompassing, bringing into play product plans, advertising, sales that target retailers and post-market service.
E Ink Corporation is a renowned development firm, best known for its electronic paper display (EPD) developments and innovations. E Ink conceived a revolutionary technology for electronic ink. It appears paper thin and high in contrast but has an extremely low consumption of power. It is very thin, and extremely lightweight in comparison with any Seiko watch that has come before it.
E Ink has used its technology to make advancements in all sorts of handheld devices, clocks, watches, and marketing products such as electronic signs and boards. A private firm, E Ink partners or investors include the Hearst Corporation, Intel Capital, TOPPAN Printing Company, CNI Ventures (part of Gannett Co.) and Motorola.
It would be difficult to find anyone the world over who hasn't heard of Epson and its fine line of printers, LCDs and projectors. With nearly 85,000 employees in more than 100 companies the world over, Epson is a massive and stable player in the electronics arena.
The new collaborative Seiko watch, called Future Now, brought together E Ink's electronic ink expertise and Seiko Epson's LCD and circuitry knowledge.
This innovative new Seiko watch has a number of highly innovative and useful features. These include a contrast that is ultra high. The display of this Seiko watch is composed of particles of pure white and pure black. This produces the same kind of contrast as seen on a printed page. In fact, this contrast is twice that of an LCD panel. You can easily read this Future Now watch's display whether the sun is bright or your surroundings are dim.
This Seiko watch is very flexible and incredibly thin. In fact, no conventional analog or digital display can ever make a watch this thin. It makes all sorts of new designs possible. You don't need a backlight with this watch so the consumption of power is at an all time Seiko watch low. The battery life of Future Now is extensive.
This Seiko watch should be marketed to the public as early as this spring in Japan. No definite worldwide plans for this Seiko watch have been made.