German Firm Longshine To Demo Color E-Paper Menu Boards At ISE January 23, 2025 by Dave Haynes In my meeting with E Ink last fall in Hsinchu, Taiwan, the company clearly indicated that digital signage was seen as a next big growth area for its color e-paper products. A series of announcements recently seem to back that up. At least a couple of companies will be at ISE showing large format “Kaleido” …
Future Displays: AUO’s Decade-Long Journey With MicroLED, From R&D To Market Leadership January 23, 2025 by Dave Haynes This is a digest summary of a profile story from the new Sixteen:Nine Future Displays report – a free download available to all readers. You can find the information and download page here … AUO was one of six companies that kindly stepped up to sponsor the report – the sponsor dollars covering off a lot of …
Chinese Manufacturer Finds A Way To Get Video Running Smooth-ish On E-Paper Displays January 23, 2025 by Dave Haynes One of the knocks – kinda sorta – against e-paper displays is that they only really support showing static images, and can’t run video like more conventional digital displays. A Chinese manufacturer called Dasung has started marketing a small E Ink-based monitor that does support video, and has a refresh rate equal to lower-end desktop …
ISE 2025 Sixteen:Nine ISE Mixer Sponsor Profile: Sony January 22, 2025 by Dave Haynes It is just a few more sleeps before the 2025 edition of Integrated Systems Europe starts in Barcelona, with the digital signage community kicking things off on the eve of the giant trade show with a Sixteen:Nine networking mixer. The sold out event – that took all of two hours – happens because of great sponsors …
Future Displays: How TSI Touch Quietly Built Up To Now Handle 70% Of The US Digital Signage Touch Market January 21, 2025 by Dave Haynes This is a reworked summary of a profile story from the new Sixteen:Nine Future Displays report – a free download available to all readers. You can find the information and download page here … TSI Touch was one of six companies that kindly stepped up to sponsor the report – the sponsor dollars covering off a lot …
Future Displays: STRATACACHE’s Billion Dollar Bet On Building America’s MicroLED Future January 20, 2025 by Dave Haynes This is a reworked version of a story from the new Sixteen:Nine Future Displays report – a free download available to all readers. You can find the information and download page here … I did a lengthy interview with STRATACACHE CEO Chris Riegel about the status of the microLED manufacturing – not just assembly – …
ESL Companies Start Harvesting In-Store Light To Power Shelf-Edge Displays January 17, 2025 by Dave Haynes Batteries have been the primary way to drive electronic shelf label displays in retail aisles, but a couple of ESL manufacturers have started working with a Swedish company that does the interesting work of harvesting power from in-store lighting. It’s a variation on the idea of using solar cell arrays to drive e-paper displays at …
Future Displays: E Ink Has Digital Signage Ambitions, But Costs And Formats Are Adoption Barriers January 17, 2025 by Dave Haynes This is a reworked version of a story from the Sixteen:Nine Future Displays report – a free download available to all readers. You can find the information and download page here … Taiwan-based e-paper giant E Ink sees digital signage and digital out of home as a next big, scalable market for its larger color …
Future Displays: Exploring The Display Technology Landscape Of Today And Tomorrow January 15, 2025 by Dave Haynes Who knows what displays will look like well into the future, but what we all see today is pretty much what we’re all going to see in five to 10 years – though their form and underlying technologies are most certainly evolving. And will continue to do so. This Future Displays report started out as …
E Ink, Wi-Charge Partner On Wirelessly-Powered Color E-Paper Posters January 13, 2025 by Dave Haynes The Israeli start-up Wi-Charge is starting to get some traction with its efforts to work with display manufacturers, working out a partnership that makes it possible to power E Ink’s top-of-the-line Spectra 6 color e-paper display panels. While e-paper displays already have dramatically lower power demands than conventional displays, they use batteries that gradually loose …
