Earlier this week Panasonic posted a video which shows a shelf label prototype which can be powered by the smartphone used to update the label. This is not the first wirelessly...
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E-ink is Working on a Turnkey Solution for Secondary Smartphone Screens
One of the niftier features of E-ink is that it is so low-powered that you can wirelessly beam power to a screen whenever it needs to be updated. Back in...
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E-ink Shows Off Smart Badges, 13.3″ Color Screens, and More (video)
Screen tech in the ereader market may have stalled after last year's release of the Carta E-ink screen on the Kindle Voyage, but that doesn't mean E-ink is standing...
Continue readingIkea Will Start Selling Qi Wireless Charging Equipped Furniture In April
Wireless charging tech has been a sideshow act in the mobile gadget market for most of a decade, and in 2015 it finally went mainstream. Mobile World Congress is...
Continue readingSony’s Smart Glasses Will Make You Look Twice as Nerdy as Google Glass at Half the Cost
Google Glass may have been shoved in a closet, but that doesn't mean Google's competitors have similarly given up. Earlier today Sony revealed that it would be offering its Android-compatible...
Continue readingThis Gadget Could One Day Charge Your Mobile Device from 15 Feet Away
Wearables may be getting all of the hype at CES 2014, but that doesn't mean they're the most interesting tech on display. There were at least 3 different wireless charging...
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Intel Accomplishes the Possible: Powering an E-ink Display via NFC(video)
Remember that wirelessly powered E-ink tag system I showed you back in June? A team of researchers at the University of Washington, the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and Intel...
Continue readingMpico Plans to Bring Wireless E-ink Screens to Smart Cards & ePaper Labels, Could Beat Amazon to Market
E-ink got a lot of press the week before last with the announcement of a couple new shelf label systems, but they're not the only ones taking this screen...
Continue readingCould the Next Kindle Be Battery-less? Probably Not
Does the nuisance of having to carry around a CPU and battery inside your ereader get you down? Amazon has a solution! The US patent office has just unveiled...
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