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Panasonic Demos NFC-Powered E-ink Shelf Labels (video)

14 May, 2016 // 3 Comments

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 powered E-ink [Read More ...]

E-ink is Working on a Turnkey Solution for Secondary Smartphone Screens

19 April, 2016 // 1 Comment

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 2013 I showed a research project and a [Read More ...]

E-ink Shows Off Smart Badges, 13.3″ Color Screens, and More (video)

16 October, 2015 // 3 Comments

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 still. Charbax has posted a video [Read More ...]

Ikea Will Start Selling Qi Wireless Charging Equipped Furniture In April

1 March, 2015 // 0 Comments

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 kicking off today in Barcelona, and [Read More ...]

Sony’s Smart Glasses Will Make You Look Twice as Nerdy as Google Glass at Half the Cost

17 February, 2015 // 4 Comments

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 [Read More ...]

This Gadget Could One Day Charge Your Mobile Device from 15 Feet Away

6 January, 2015 // 3 Comments

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 technologies on display at [Read More ...]

Intel Accomplishes the Possible: Powering an E-ink Display via NFC(video)

19 August, 2013 // 8 Comments

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 Labs have come [Read More ...]

Mpico Plans to Bring Wireless E-ink Screens to Smart Cards & ePaper Labels, Could Beat Amazon to Market

3 June, 2013 // 4 Comments

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 tech to places you would not expect. While I [Read More ...]

Could the Next Kindle Be Battery-less? Probably Not

28 March, 2013 // 7 Comments

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 a patent that Amazon filed back in [Read More ...]