Liquavista was a

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-based company founded in 2006 as a spin-off from

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. Its research and development have included efforts to develop colour

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video screens that can work with or without a backlight using

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technology. Liqavista began the final step in fully commercialising the technology in 2010, as it sent out SDKs to

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s. Liquavista was reported to anticipate the first productions runs of its electrowetting display panel to come in 2013 but it did not happen. In Dec. 2010,

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Co. Ltd acquired Liquavista B.V. for an undisclosed amount. On May 13, 2013,

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confirmed that it had acquired Liquavista from

. In 2018, Amazon shut down Liquavista but did not indicate what happened to the technology. Later in September 2020, LookGadgets acquired the domain liquavista.com.

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