US starts testing E Ink car license plates.

Several states in the US (including Arizona and California) started testing digital license plates, that use E Ink display. The idea is that such plates will mean that people will not have to wait to update their plates, and also can be used to show customized messages when the car is parked.The license plates, called RPlate Pros are produced by US-based Reviver Auto.

Digital plates to replace metal ones on Dubai cars

Soon, say goodbye to metal vehicle plate and install a digital plate in your car

"The digital plate, called Tag to Connect, is a smart screen that will replace the current metal plate," Sultan Abdullah Al Marzouqi, Roads and Transport Authority's (RTA) Director of Vehicle Licensing Department, told Khaleej Times at the Future Cities Show in Dubai on Monday.


For Revier, the digital license plate is nothing short of a revolution. After 125 years of metal license plate, the digital flag is the next logical step, the company from California. This year, 100,000 license plates are to be sold.

Whether and when we will see comparable solutions in Europe remains to be seen. The previously important readability of characteristics (reflectivity) is difficult to achieve with an eInk based display with protective glass.

E Ink display based systems deployed in Jerusalem Israel's bus stops.

Bus stop information display pioneer Papercast has deployed its solar-powered E Ink bus stop displays for the Jerusalem Transportation Master Plan Team (JTMT) passenger information system in Jerusalem, Israel. Papercast deployed these systems at several bus stops in Jerusalem as a pilot, with hopes to extend the deployment to all bus stops in Jerusalem. Papercast says that the E Ink displays are 36 times more efficient than previously-used LCD screens, which makes solar power feasible.

E-ink dress.

Video taken from Display Week 2017 from E-Ink booth.



Amazing 'E-ink' dress changes color before your eyes at CES 2018

Get ready for color-changing clothes and 'living wallpaper': DNP unveils futuristic electronic paper displays alongside breath-activated 'sensing wall'

MpicoSys PicoLabel

MpicoSys' PicoLabel is a no-battery signage display that includes a 2.7" 264x176 E Ink display updated via NFC. Target applications include Logistics (manufacturing, warehousing, transportation, Badges), authentication and door signage.

The next-generation classroom display.

The 13-inch JOAN Classroom shows the daily schedule for a classroom right where students need it most, at the classroom door. An elegant, ultra-reliable device that feels at home in any interior.

13-inch non-touch screen. The lecture currently taking place, the one coming up and the 5 that follow.
Paperlike. No glare, no light pollution.
Integration with 25Live from CollegeNET.  Instant real-time updates, across all locations.
Premium design and build for an ultra reliable solution. Available in black or grey.
Zero cost installation. No wires.
Up to 12 months of battery life.
Magnetic Mount included. VESA mount compatible.

The JOAN Classroom is based on a 13" 1600x1200 E Ink Carta display and can last for 12 months on battery.

San Diego Airport unveils the world's largest e-paper installation.

The San Diego airport new rental car center building installed the world's largest e-paper installation called Dazzle. Design team Ueberall International used more then 2,000 solar-powered E Ink Prism tiles to create Dazzle.



The art program manager at the San Diego Airport says that this installation will be viewed daily by hundreds of thousands of airport visitors and motorists on the nearby Interstate 5 freeway. This is an example of a sustainable, programmable and exciting new art installation. The entire installation had a budget of $875,000, which is about $437 per panel, but of course the price of each panel also includes the wireless communication devices, solar panels, software and more.

E Ink to ramp up electronic shelf label production in 2017.

Digitimes reports that E Ink Holdings is ramping up its electronic shelf label display (ESL) production as the company expects double-digit growth in 2017. EIH recently began to ship smart label displays to Alibaba Group and JD.com subsidiaries.

E Ink shipped around 30-40 million ELSs in 2016, which is 50% of the total ESL market. Digitimes says that the company hopes to become an ESL supplier to Walmart and Amazon.

E-Ink Case i7 Plus: Dual Screen For iPhone 7 Plus.

E Ink Smart Case Designed for Adventurers, Bookworms, Businessperson, Selfie-taker And Everyone Else.
It is the world's thinnest and lightest eReader.
Incredibly light and thin.

OAXIS was founded by a group of passionate young people who band together to work on projects that they hope to make a difference in this boring electronic gadget world.
More info on Kickstarter here.




Oaxis launched a crowdfunding campaign for the new case, which already achieved its goal. The case will cost $159 and will ship in July or August 2017.

Some E Ink demonstrations from SID.

E Ink has unveiled a new prototype foldable E Ink display at SID 2017. The display which you can see below in the video is 10.2" in size and features a 220 PPI - similar to E Ink existing flexible Mobius displays. You can see in the video that the display does not fold completely, there's still a gap - the bending radius is 7.5 mm.

Terrad Music to launch its Gvido digital music score by the end of the year.

In June 2016 Terrada announced its Gvido E Ink sheet music device, that lets you see sheet music pages (PDFs) on two 13.3" flexible (Mobius) E Ink displays. The company now announced that it plans to start shipping this innovative device by the end of 2017. The device also includes input via a stylus (Wacom). The device features Wi-Fi, bluetooth, 8GB of internal memory and micro SD slot. The whole device weighs only 650 grams.

New e-paper device: Blendology E Ink badge.

Bledology E Ink badge is an interactive contact exchange platform aimed for conference attendees. The badges use 4" E Ink displays produced by Plastic Logic. The E Ink badges are now available and cost $60 each (these are reusable of course across many conferences

HP announces the IonTouch e-paper based "printing" system.

HP Developed a new system, called IonTouch, which enables cheap and easy "paperless" printing. The basic idea is that IonTouch can be used to "print" small displays for applications such as calling cards, QR Codes, badges and more.

Those cards are based on E Ink, and so does not require any power while the image stays - and of course the image can be changed with the "printing" equipment. Each display is a 2.5" 300x300 monochrome (16 grayscales) E Ink panel. HP is aiming for a low-cost solution and each display will cost less than $2 to make.

E-Ink and Sony in Joint Venture.

E Ink® Holdings, "E Ink" (8069.TW), the leading innovator of electronic ink technology, today announced E Ink and Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sony Corporation, have agreed to establish a joint venture (“JV”) responsible for planning, designing, developing, manufacturing, selling, distributing and licensing products that utilize electronic paper displays, as well as related applications and the integration platform for system partners.

E Ink and Sony have cultivated a strong partnership through a wide array of collaboration products since 2004, with Sony selling Digital Paper adopting E Ink’s electronic paper display technology. The new JV will leverage both E Ink’s development and manufacturing technology for electronic paper displays and Sony’s expertise in product development and marketing. By doing so, it will aim to create new electronic paper display products and systems, and grow the market of ePaper-based solutions.

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Samsung patents a mobile phone cover with an E Ink display.

Samsung filed a patent in Korea for a mobile phone cover that includes an E Ink display to show notifications. Some covers include a transparent part (or just a hole) through which you can see the display - and if it's an OLED, it makes sense because this uses very little power (only lit pixels draw power in an OLED display).

This is just a patent application for now, but it will be interesting if Samsung actually produced such an accessory for one of its future or present smartphones.

E Ink and Texen to bring battery-less displays based smart packaging.

E Ink announced a new collaboration with Texen, a provider of product solutions for the luxury and beauty market, to bring personalized packaging solutions to cosmetic customers. The companies demonstrated a smart packaging design for customizable packaging displays for makeup compacts, perfume bottles and other cosmetic packaging.

The E Ink display is powered purely by near field communications (NFC) and can be updated by a smartphone that generates radio frequency signals carrying both the information and energy needed to update the display. E Ink and Texen are already taking customers orders for the new solution.

Forget holograms, here's a 'floating e-ink' display.

The amount of pixels in a display has been the source of forum flamewars since the advent of HDTV, which makes an experimental display technology from the University of Sussex so interesting. It's called JOLED and it measures a whopping 7 x 6 voxels high and wide, respectively. Hold on, it gets more interesting. Each voxel is a diminutive multi-colored sphere, and they're suspended in mid-air by an array of ultrasound speakers that "create high-pitched and high-intensity soundwaves that are inaudible but forceful enough to hold the spheres in place," according to the school.

That holds the JANUS objects in place, but to make them spin and show different colors at different times is something else entirely. What seems to be the key to the rotation is that the spheres are coated with titanium dioxide -- also used to purify air when mixed with concrete -- which, when a exposed to an electrical field causes them to rotate.

"JOLED could be like having a floating e-ink display that can also change its shape," researcher Deepak Sahoo said in a canned press release quote.

Maybe don't expect to have these sitting on your desk, though. The school suggest that it could wind up like many of Disney Research's projects and be used in commercial or tourism settings. Some examples? Showing the changing patterns of carbon footprints or changes in currency conversion rates. So, don't expect to watch Luke Cage on one of these in HDR anytime soon is what I'm saying.

"We also want to examine ways in which such a display could be used to deliver media on-demand," University of Sussex's Sriram Subramanian said. "A screen appears in front of the user to show the media and then the objects forming the display fall to the ground when the video finishes playing."

The scientists hope to increase the pixel density as well as the amount of colors displayed (sound familiar?), and is presented at Japan's ACM User Interface Software and Technology Symposium.

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 Ink label will display personalized content that can be pushed to the packaging label as a communication interface, delivering vital information to patients and creating a gateway to improve patient engagement.

This is E Ink's second such project with Palladio: in October 2015 E Ink collaborated with Palladio and developed an advanced packaging solution specifically for pharmaceuticals, called PhutureMed.

the largest color flexible E Ink ever.

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. We already saw flexible 32" Mobius E Ink panels, but these were black and white. This display uses color-filters produced by Toppan. The display is 0.4 mm thick and it can be curved (it is not truly flexible by the end user). The companies say that this new display offer a higher color gamut compared to previous color E Ink displays.

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, the distance to the next gas station, etc.



RoadAds say that this system bypasses the traditional weaknesses of print advertising - long installation time and stale content. Of course the ads can be more relevant and location based compared to regular print ads. The E Ink displays are efficient and emit no light pollution - which makes them compliant with EU regulations.