UK e-display company Plastic Logic has unveiled its latest wrap-around smartwatch concept — the first E Ink watch with colour.

Global electronic components distributor Digi-Key Corporation, the industry leader in electronic component selection, availability and delivery, today announced a global distribution agreement with E Ink. This partnership allows Digi-Key to offer E-Ink’s innovative, standard segmented displays to their worldwide customer base.

Ectaco has quietly released its second generation Jetbook Color e-Reader today and the most exciting aspect about it is that it is using e-Ink Triton 2. E-Ink Triton 2 is the next generation color display screen for your traditional e-reader. This is an added layer of film that will give customers a higher degree of contrast and better color display compared to the previous generation. Triton 1 had a grid of 2×2 pixels, red, green, blue, and white, and used a square color filter array. Meanwhile, Triton 2 has the same color display, but instead of using square pixels it is using rectangular. It should give you 4096 degrees of color with 16 levels of each.

Who would want a smartphone with a grayscale E Ink screen? Anyone who want days of battery life, superior outdoor readability and low cost should be interested in using the technology in a phone. At Mobile World Congress this week, we got our hands on a prototype Android smartphone with an e-Ink screen and were blown away by just how light it was about how sharp text looked on its screen and how long it could last.