Last week E Ink participated in CES 2013 in Las Vegas. While we didn’t exhibit at the show, we attended ShowStoppers, a press event on Tuesday night, and met with reporters throughout Wednesday to offer a sneak peak at some new technologies and products coming up in the future.
You can find a full listing of our press coverage on our website, but we wanted to share a few video articles from video blogger Charbax, who spent nearly an hour with our CMO, Sri Peruvemba.
Yesterday, December 12, our customer, Yota, announced a new phone coming in 2013 that features an E Ink display.
While E Ink has been included in cell phones before, with the Motofone F3, the Samsung Alias 2 and the Sony Ericsson Urbano Affare, the E Ink display had been a small supplemental display, or a keypad. The Yota product marks the first time E Ink will be a large secondary display on a smartphone.
Yet this phone is not significantly heavier or using significantly more power. How is this possible?
The below blog post is from our friends over at e-ink-info.com. E Ink is not running this contest, but we love the idea, and thought you might find it interesting. If you want to learn more about bi-stability and E Ink, please check out the technology page on our website. Thanks to e-ink-info.com and Ron Mertens for thinking up this contest – we’re eager to read the suggestions!
The E Ink persistency contest, your chance to win a new e-reader – from e-ink-info.com
Last week we posted about E Ink display persistency – and the fact that those displays can actually retain an image for years. Now it’s your turn to try and think of applications for this feature. Besides making some nice B&W photo frames – what cool things can be done with a display that can stay persistent for such long times without a power source? For example gadgets that only need to change the display once a day…
Just post your idea as a comment below, and be sure to leave your e-mail (you can also send the e-mail in private, of course). We’ll choose the two best ideas, and award them with new e-readers (either a Kindle paperwhite or a Nook Simple Touch with Glowlight). This contest is open for everyone. E Ink, who were kind enough to give away the two e-readers, will ship them worldwide. We’ll choose the new winners on December 11th.
Please post all suggestions directly to e-ink-info.com. Suggestions posted below will not be entered into the contest.
There are differences between eReaders and Tablets, and we believe you may want both. We’ve talked about the benefits of E Ink for readability, but there is also a benefit to eReaders that is harder to quantify; the ability of an Electronic Paper Display to help you focus on content – pulling you into your novel and taking you away from the “real world”.