Here's a fascinating footnote to tomorrow's Amazon news. I have official confirmation today of a rumor that circulated in March: Amazon has shut down its screen tech sub, Liquavista....
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Category: Screen Tech
E-ink Booth Tour SID Display Week 2018 (videos)
The ereader market is mostly dead, but E-ink is still showing off nifty looking new prototypes. For example, E-ink showed off their new 10.3" flexible display last week at SID...
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ClearInk is Still a Year Away From Mass Production (video)
ClearInk demonstrated the latest examples of their screen tech at SID Display Week 2018. The screens missed their promised ship date of last quarter, but ClearInk says that in...
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ePaper Hacking: How to Get the Fastest Possible Refresh Rate (video)
Ever wonder just what is involved in refreshing an E-ink screen? Ben Krasnow has posted a video where he first explains how epaper works and then goes on to modify the...
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CLEARink Wins Best in Show at DisplayWeek 2017 for its Reflective Displays
Charbax met with CLEARink Displays Chairman and CEO, Frank Christiaens and VP of Engineering, Scott Ferguson, at SID DisplayWeek 2017 in Los Angeles this week. The company won the "Best...
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AUOptronics Shows Off Foldable AMOLED Screen at SID Display Week (video)
Rollable/foldable/flexible screens are still for the most part science fiction these days with the latest work still in the prototype stage, but screen tech companies are working to make...
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Japan Display Demos a 600 PPI E-ink Backplane
E-ink screen tech hit a plateau three years ago when the Kindle Voyage was released with a 300 ppi screen. We haven't seen any increase in E-ink screen resolution...
Continue readingSamsung to Demo World’s First “Stretchable” OLED Screen
Bendable and rollable screens promise the ultimate compromise between screen size and pocketability, but so far they have shared the same problem: flex them more than a dozen times...
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E-ink is Now Selling ePaper Screen Units Direct to the Public
It has long been possible to buy E-ink screens and kits through electronics supply warehouses or through niche sites like AdaFruit - all that you needed was a credit card...
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Japan Display Unveils a Dual-Screen Display for Smartphones
Smartphones and mobile devices with folding screens like the MS Courier are largely a topic for the history books, idle techie daydreams, or for R&D labs, but Japan Display's new...
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Microsoft’s New ePaper Display is Powered by Office Lights and Never Needs Charging
Over the past few years we've seen ereader and other epaper displays which were powered wirelessly by NFC. Now Microsoft has come up with a design for an epaper post-it...
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Three-Color Spectra E-ink Screens Now Available for DIY Projects
When E-ink unveiled its Spectra screens in 2013, the cutting edge 3-color epaper displays were only sold in the e-shelf label market. With exactly three colors (black, white, and...
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E-ink, Toppan Debut a 32″ Flexible Color E-ink Screen
In May of this year E-ink unveiled a 32" flexible E-ink screen, and now they are showing off a color option. Last week Japan-based Toppan Printing announced that it had...
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Giant E-ink Screens Turn Trucks Into Accident-Causing Distractions
Visionect is a Slovenian company which develops new uses for E-ink screens. They've developed bus signs, a smart meeting room sign, and a sign for museums, all of which...
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ePaper Business Card Never Goes Out of Date
We've all seen business cards which unfold into pop-ups, or other clever tricks, but few can compare to Paul Schow's work. This hardware engineer has designed and built a...
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