Panasonic Demos NFC-Powered E-ink Shelf Labels (video)
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...Continue reading
Tag: wireless power
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...Continue reading
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...Continue reading
Ikea 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...Continue reading
Sony’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...Continue reading
This 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...Continue reading
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...Continue reading
Mpico 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...Continue reading
Could 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...Continue reading