Squaro Engineering has just developed their first e Ink product called Badgey. It features a 2.9 inch e-paper display with a resolution of 296×128 E and a five-way tactical switch for user input. The default firmware includes support for WiFiManager and OTA updates. This device retails for $29.99 and they offer volume … [Read more...]
The Sony and E Ink Joint venture is working on some excellent products
Sony and E Ink Holdings formed a joint venture late last year and is it called Linfiny. The joint venture is set to optimize the design and R&D capability at Sony Semiconductor Solutions and backend module production capacity at EIH to develop e-paper products and solutions to enable clients to shorten … [Read more...]
New Samsung Flexible OLED screen is unbreakable
Samsung has developed a new flexible OLED screen with an unbreakable substrate and an overlay window securely adhered to it. Current-generation flexible display products attach a glass-covered window to their display that often breaks when severely impacted. One of the most exciting elements of this new screen tech is … [Read more...]
Will Gorilla Glass 6 ever be used on e-readers?
Corning has just announced Gorilla Glass 6, the screen technology that is on every flagship Android and Apple phone. Many phones not only have a glass screen on the front, but the back too. This year, about 28 percent of all phones sold -- and nearly 100 percent of pricey, high-end phones -- will have glass on the back … [Read more...]
E Ink will garner 30% of their global revenue from China by 2020
E Ink is based in Taiwan and they currently generate 20% of their global revenue in the Chinese market. The primary source of income is derived from e-paper displays such as electronic shelf labels, but also exclusive smartphones that are only available in the Chinese market. These include the Hisense A2, Huateng Flag … [Read more...]
Blendology e-paper badges are the future of conferences
Blendology has been making interactive badges with a lanyard for a number of years. The company focuses on interactive elements such as being able to tap another badge to get that persons contact information and their technology has been used at over 350 events in 40 countries around the world.Blendology is a … [Read more...]
E Ink bus stop signs now available in Sydney
Visionect has just launched a pilot program in Sydney Australia for a series of E Ink bus stop signs. These bus stops are the result of their cooperation with the Australian company Mercury Innovation - these were their partners from a few years ago when they launched a series of e-paper traffic signs in Sydney. The … [Read more...]
Intel Tiger Rapid features an E Ink Screen
Intel has just unveiled a new dual screen notebook called the Tiger Rapid. It features a full HD LCD display on one side, and an E Ink screen on the other, and both are powered by a single eighth-generation Core processor. This new device harkens back to almost a decade ago when the Entourage Edge first came … [Read more...]
Flexterra and E Ink develop a new flexible 6.8 e-reader
Flexterra and E-Ink have developed a new flexible 6.8 inch e-reader that is in the prototype stage and it should be refined over the course of the next twelve months. Flexterra has developed the backplane for this new device and E Ink the epaper display and internal components.Flexterra has developed new OTFT … [Read more...]
Dasung Paperlike HD E Ink monitor now available via Indiegogo
Dasung does not have very many distribution channels for their E Ink monitors that are compatible with the MAC and PC. They primarily market them in China, but there is also an official North America distributor that sells them on Amazon. If you are interested in buying the latest generation Paperlike HD, it is now … [Read more...]
CLEARink receives a 10 million dollar deal to provide screens for tablets
CLEARink has just received ten million dollars from an unknown company to produce 9.7 inch color e-paper displays. The CLEARink tablet displays will feature up to 50% larger form factors than conventional reflective tablets, high resolution, video and colour. The devices will be targeted at the large tablet market, … [Read more...]
Plastic Logic announces new 500 PPI E-Paper display
Plastic Logic has just developed a new e-paper display that has a massive 155% increase in resolution and now supports 500 PPI. This impressive, industry-leading improvement has been achieved solely through advances in Plastic Logic’s transistor matrix backplane on a 10.8 inch E Ink screen. Prior to this technology … [Read more...]