Screen Tech

E-ink Booth Tour SID Display Week 2018 (videos)

4 June, 2018 // 0 Comments

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 Display Week. Yes, [Read More ...]

ClearInk is Still a Year Away From Mass Production (video)

31 May, 2018 // 5 Comments

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 spite of the delay they [Read More ...]

ePaper Hacking: How to Get the Fastest Possible Refresh Rate (video)

2 November, 2017 // 1 Comment

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 firmware of a 4.2" epaper [Read More ...]

CLEARink Wins Best in Show at DisplayWeek 2017 for its Reflective Displays

1 June, 2017 // 15 Comments

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 of Show" [Read More ...]

AUOptronics Shows Off Foldable AMOLED Screen at SID Display Week (video)

31 May, 2017 // 0 Comments

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 them a [Read More ...]

Japan Display Demos a 600 PPI E-ink Backplane

23 May, 2017 // 9 Comments

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 (and not much in the way of new [Read More ...]

Samsung to Demo World’s First “Stretchable” OLED Screen

22 May, 2017 // 3 Comments

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 and they break. [Read More ...]

E-ink is Now Selling ePaper Screen Units Direct to the Public

19 December, 2016 // 5 Comments

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 and a web browser. Now [Read More ...]

Japan Display Unveils a Dual-Screen Display for Smartphones

17 November, 2016 // 1 Comment

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 screen could [Read More ...]

Microsoft’s New ePaper Display is Powered by Office Lights and Never Needs Charging

24 October, 2016 // 4 Comments

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 note which is powered by [Read More ...]

Three-Color Spectra E-ink Screens Now Available for DIY Projects

11 October, 2016 // 3 Comments

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 red) and no shades [Read More ...]

E-ink, Toppan Debut a 32″ Flexible Color E-ink Screen

21 September, 2016 // 0 Comments

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 co-developed a new 32" [Read More ...]

Giant E-ink Screens Turn Trucks Into Accident-Causing Distractions

14 September, 2016 // 2 Comments

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 utilize E-ink screens, but [Read More ...]

ePaper Business Card Never Goes Out of Date

30 August, 2016 // 5 Comments

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 custom business card with a [Read More ...]

Visionect Debuts an ePaper Sign for Museum and Galleries

12 August, 2016 // 9 Comments

The ereader market may have peaked several years ago, but E-ink screens aren't dead. A small Slovenian startup continues to find new uses and markets. Visionect announced on Monday that it was [Read More ...]

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