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

14 May, 201617 May, 2016E-ink3 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...

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

19 April, 201614 May, 2016E-ink, e-Reading HardwareOne 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...

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

16 October, 201514 May, 2016Conferences & Trade shows, E-ink, e-Reading Hardware3 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...

Ikea Will Start Selling Qi Wireless Charging Equipped Furniture In April

1 March, 201512 May, 2017e-Reading HardwareLeave a comment

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...

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

17 February, 201515 May, 2016e-Reading Hardware4 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...

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

6 January, 201514 May, 2016Conferences & Trade shows, e-Reading Hardware3 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...

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

19 August, 201314 May, 2016e-Reading Hardware, Screen Tech8 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...

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

3 June, 201314 May, 2016Conferences & Trade shows, e-Reading Hardware5 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...

Could the Next Kindle Be Battery-less? Probably Not

28 March, 201314 May, 2016e-Reading Hardware7 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...