Catégorie : Numérique
Bookeen Cybook Muse Light
Bookeen’s Cybook Muse Light is a 6″ 800×600 (167 PPI) E Ink Carta budget e-reader that features front lighting, 4GB of on-board memory, a microSD card, Wi-Fi and e-pub support.
Bookeen launches its solar e-reader cover
In March 2015 Bookeen announced it is developing a solar-powered e-reader cover in collaboration with Sun Partner. The Solar Leaf Cover is now available exclusively for Bookeen’s Cybook Ocean, for $67.The cover has a 19 inch2 (125 cm2) patterned solar …
Invoxia Triby
Invoxia’s Triby is an Alexa-enabled Wi-Fi and Bluetooth portable speaker. It includes a built-in microphone to turn it into a hands-free speakerphone. The display is a 2.9″ active-matrix E Ink display.
Bus stop information display pioneer Papercast sees accelerated demand
Papercast, based in Ljubljana, Slovenia, now announced that it is opening a new office in London to meet « growing demand across the European region ». Papercast said it has experienced accelerated demand for its world-class digital passenger information solution in some of the world’s more forward thinking passenger transport markets, with deployments in Asia, Europe and the USA.Is Apple thinking about an E Ink keyboard for future devices?
According to reports, Apple is in talks with Sonder, an Australian startup that is now part of Foxconn’s incubator program regarding its E Ink keyboard technology. Sonder confirmed that Apple’s procurement board reached out to the company.The Sonder Ke…
E Ink, HTC and Palladio to co-develop smart medication packaging labels
E Ink announced a partnership with HTC Healthcare and the Palladio Group to develop E Ink smart medication packaging labels. The three companies will develop an IoT-based smart device and smartphone software that will improve medication adherence.The E…
Visionect expand its Joan E Ink Meeting Room Assistant product lineup
Visionect announced that it is expanding its Joan meeting room assistant lineup. The company now offers three different versions: the basic Joan Assistant with a non-touch display for viewing only, the Joan Manager that allows booking on the spot via a…
Rumors say Apple is considering a secondary E Ink display in future iPhones
A report by the Taiwanese the Economic Daily News suggests that Apple requested display samples from E Ink Holdings, as the iPhone maker is considering adding a secondary E Ink panel to future devices.Siswood dual-screen phoneEven if this report i…
E-Ink-Info readers get free shipping on Visionect’s E Ink meeting room assistant
In January 2016 Visionect launched its JOAN Meeting Room Assistant, and we’re happy to announce that Visionect now offers free shipping for E-Ink-Info readers. JOAN uses a 6″ E Ink Pearl panel to provide a beautiful calendar scheduling solution, connecting wirelessly to your calendar, and running on batteries for months between charges.
E Ink and Toppan Printing developed a 32″ color flexible e-paper display
E Ink, in collaboration with TOppan Printing, developed a 32″ flexible color E Ink display. The companies presented a first prototype, and the plan is to produce this display by the end of 2017.This is the largest color flexible E Ink ever developed. W…
Kobo reports high demand for the Aura One
Canada-based Rakuten Kobo says that demand for its new 7.8″ E Ink Aura One e-reader is very strong in Canada. The e-reader is « selling at a blistering pace in Canada » – and some locations have run out of stock.The Kobo Aura One is a large e-reader that…
Visionect and RoadAds develop an E Ink based truck ad platform
E Ink developer Visionect partnered with German-based RoadAds Interactive developed e-paper based truck displays that provide location targeted advertising in real time. The system also display s GPS-triggered information such as traffic jams ahead, th…
Smart Displays offers E Ink ESL kits on Amazon.com
Smart Displays offers a new electronic shelf label (ESL) kit to help companies quickly develop ESL solutions. The kit includes three 2.9″ Tri-Color (black, white and red) E Ink labels and two 2.1″ monochrome E Ink labels. The kit also includes a bar-co…
Sony FES Watch U
Sony’s FES Watch is the successor to the popular (in Japan) Sony FES watch. This is an E Ink watch that also has E Ink on the wrist-band, so you can change the design at will. There are 12 basic designs, but this is software based and will increase as …
E Ink aims to sell 40 million smart shelf labels in 2016
E Ink Holdings’s CEO Frank Ko says that as of the end of 2015, E already shipped over 60 million smart e-paper labels since starting to offer these commercially. Sales are picking up, and in 2016 alone E Ink expects to sell over 40 million smart labels.
Kobo Aura One
The Kobo Aura One is a large e-reader that sports a 7.8″ 300 PPI E Ink display and is water resistant (IPX8, which means it can be submerged in 2 meters of water).
E Ink Holdings reports its financial results for Q2 2016
E Ink Holdings announced its financial results for Q2 2016. Revenues reached $115 million USD, and the operating profit was $5.5 million, up from a loss of about $15 million in the first quarter of 2016.E Ink Holding’s net profit in this quarter was $2…
Visionect announces a new E Ink system for museum labels
Visionect announced a new e-paper based system for museum galleries. The AMLABEL Digital Gallery Display uses a 6″ or 9.7″ E Ink display and a Wi-Fi based management system to replace regular printed labels in Museums. The system is battery powered, co…
Singapore installs 11 color E Ink bus stop information boards
This pilot project chose an ePaper solution because it is extremely energy efficient and runs on solar cells, completely independently from the electrical grid. If the project proves to be successful, this may lead to wider adoption on up to 200 bus stops in the next few years.
iSport W194
iSport’s W194 is a fitness tracker that sports a flexible E Ink display. The watch monitors steps, distance walked, speed, calories and also your sleep. It can connect to both iOS and Android devices.iSPort’s E Ink watch is now shipping for $55.E Ink d…
Visionect helps develop a solar-powered ePaper-based violence prevention system
Mexico-based PERO360 developed a new solar-powered E Ink kiosk called Community HUB, that help students in schools report violence cases anonymously and safely. A 12-month trial in Mexico saw rediced abusive behavior and helped the school implement new…
Amazon Kindle was a huge success at the company’s second annual Prime Day
Amazon reportedly enjoyed tremendous success with its second annual Prime Day. According to the Good E-Reader, one of the biggest success stories was the Kindle e-Reader – Amazon sold a few hundred thousand of its Kindles worldwide.Amazon offers severa…
Is Amazon ready to release an 8″ color electrowetting e-reader soon?
ElectrowettingAmazon kindleBack in 2013, Samsung sold LiquaVista, its electrowetting display unit, to Amazon (Samsung itself bought Liquavista in 2011). Electrowetting enables low-power non-volatile color e-paper displays, but the technology has n…
E Ink installs a prototype 32″ E Ink display in Boston’s city hall
SignageE InkE Ink IncIn June 2014 (exactly two years ago), E Ink and GDS announced the world’s largest e-paper module, a 32″ 2560×1440 display that targets digital signage and information kiosk applications.A few days ago, E Ink and GDS installed a pro…
Amazon Kindle (2016)
Amazon’s Kindle (2016 edition), the company’s basic e-reader model features a 6″ 167 PPI 16-level E Ink pearl touch display (no built-in light), 4GB of storage and Wi-Fi. It comes in either black or white. It weighs 161 grams and is smaller and ligher than the 2015 edition.
The Kindle (2016) will ship in July 7 2016 for …
New E-Ink-Info LinkedIn page and group
We are happy to invite all our readers to follow the new E-Ink-Info LinkedIn company page. LinkedIn is a great place to meet and find new professionals. If you follow the new company page, you will get ePaper updates directly to your feed, and also be…
Gvido
The Gvido was introduced in June 2016, but there’s no word on pricing or launch date yet.
E Ink signs a 5-year e-paper shelf label supply deal with Media Markt
According to the Economic Daily News, E InK Holdings signed a 5-year supply agreement with Germany-based consumer electronics retail chain, for the supply of electric shelf labels (ESLs).E Ink says that it already cooperated with 20 retail chains aroun…
Clearink and Suzhou Jinfu to jointly supply e-paper displays in China
E-paper developer CLEARink Displays announced that it has established a joint venture in China with Suzhou Jinfu to commercialize Clearink’s breakthrough reflective display technology for various ePaper applications in China.The new JV will target seve…
E Ink demonstrate new color and flexible e-Paper panels at SID 2016
E Ink had a very interesting booth at SID 2016, showcasing its new color e-paper displays, and also other new and existing displays and prototypes.First up, we have E Ink’s new Advanced Color ePaper (ACeP), which is a high-quality full-color E Ink disp…
Dasung launches a crowdfunding campaign for its 13.3″ E Ink monitors
In January 2015, Dasung launched the Paperlike a 13.3″ 1600×1200 USB E Ink monitor, aimed to be a secondary computer display for reading documents. The company offered the first few units for $975, and has now launched an IndieGogo flexible campaign…
E Ink and Canatu to offer flexible touch E Ink displays for wearable applications
E Ink and Canatu announced a new partnership, to develop a line of flexible touch displays for the wearable markets….
E Ink Holdings reports lower revenues and a loss in Q1 2016
E Ink Holdings reported its financial results for Q1 2016 revenues were NT$2.5 billion ($76.6 million USD) and the net loss was NT$272 million ($3.84 USD) down from a net profit of NT$766 in Q4 2015 (but up from a loss of $1.23 billion in Q1…
Panasonic demonstrate batteryless NFC E Ink shelf labels
Panasonic published a new video, demonstrating its new electronic shelf labels (ESL) that are batteryless and uses NFC and an E Ink display.The ESLs are powered by Panasonic’s 8-bit MN101L MCUs that use 64kb RRAM memory which is funny as only a few d…
RRAM-Info, a new Metalgrass knowledge hub
We are happy to announce a new Metalgrass knowledge hub, RRAM-Info.com, that focuses on RRAM, or Resistive RAM technology. RRAM is a promising next-generation storage-memory candidate, based on memristors materials that change their resistance. RRAM…
Visionect discusses digital signage e-paper deployment issues
E Ink developer and integrator Visionect published a new article in which the company analyses all the intricacies of deploying electronic paper in different digital signage scenarios.The article discusses the need of a new kind of signage, the power e…
