Mechanical indicator

You could use an e-ink display. These displays have little balls inside that are black on one side and white on the other. Flipping the dot takes power, but it is stable in either state. Most displays wold be way too big for your application, but they do make small ones. I have a flash drive that uses one as a capacity gauge. A Google search for "e-ink Arduino" came up with plenty of hits, so it has been done.