Catégorie : E-Ink

Microsoft presented a new prototype tablet keyboard cover that they call DisplayCover, and it includes a 1280×305 E Ink touch screen. This can be used to access applications via shortcuts, and can also accept stylus input and touch gestures.

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Polyera unveiled their first product, the Wove Band. This smartband device is truly flexible and uses the company’s OTFT (organic-TFT) technology flexible backplane technology and an E Ink display.Polyera will start shipping samples in December to deve…

The SmartPal G1 is a smartwatch that connects to your iOS or Android phone to show notifications, GPS information and fitness information. The display is a 1.26″ 144×168 E Ink panel.The SmartPal G1 is now shipping for $99.

E Ink Holdings announced a new joint-venture with e-reader maker Netronix. The two companies iwll launch a new JV (Netronix will hold a 51% share) in China’s Jaingsu province that will focus on e-paper system integration and product assembly services.E…

FlexEnable (recently spun-off from PlasticLogic) demonstrated their OTFT-based flexible displays, including E Ink, LCD and OLED display:

The Australian road and maritime Services (RMS) installe dthe world’s first E Ink trarffic signs that are optimized for road traffic. The signs use wireless communication over the cellular network can can withstand the sun’s heat and power outages as i…

Sony launched its own crowd funding platform helped to find and finance Sony employees projects. The platform is called First Flight, and two of the first three projects use E Ink displays.One of the E Ink projects is Sony’s FES E Ink watch, that alrea…

In 2013, CST introduced the CST-01 ultra-thin, flexible E Ink watch. The company later raised over $300,000 in a kickstarter campaign, offering each watch for $129.Unfortunatly, CST faced production problems, and due to low component yields, and actu…

The Sonder Keyboard is a full keyboard in which all letter and numeric keys are small E Ink displays that can be customized. The keyboard support Bluetooth and has front lighting.The Sonder Keyboard will cost $299, but early pre-orders pay only $199.
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Researchers from the University of Cincinnati, in collaboration with Merck and HP are developing low-cost large films that can be used to create smart windows that can dynamically adapt for brightness, color temperatures and opacity.The so-called elect…

The Kindle Paperwhite 2015 is a new version of Amazon’s popular paperwhite kindle e-reader. The new 2015 edition upgrades the display with a new 6″ 300DPI E Ink Carta panel. The e-reader has front-light, Wi-Fi (3G optional) and 4GB of storage (free cloud storage for Amazon content).The new Paperwhite will launch on June 30 2015, and will cost $119 (basic Wi-Fi edition, ad supported).

Two years ago, E Ink announced the Spectra e-paper panels that feature three pigments black, white and red. Today the company announced an expansion of that product line to include the Spectra Yellow, which can show black, white or yellow colors.The…

A YotaDevice executive in the US says that the company is developing their next-generation device (the YotaPhone 3?) that will replace the YotaPhone 2, which is only now being launched in the US. The new device will be faster, thinner and will include…