Japanese Researchers Developing Energy-Sipping Display Tech Based Around … Clay??? February 20, 2025 by Super User Japanese researchers have developed a new type of energy-sipping display that uses clay-based materials and allows displays, including ones large enough to at least theoretically be used for digital signage, to both emit light and change color, making them readable whether people are looking at them in bright sunlight or darkness. I am decoding this …
Future Displays Now Has Some 1,400 Downloads & Views. It’s Still Available, Still Free! February 18, 2025 by Super User It has been a couple of weeks since I made any big reference to the Future Displays report, so I wanted to re-up word that it is still out there and still a free download. I met some folks at ISE who REALLY know their display tech, and was both gratified and relieved that they …
French Startup Uses Injected Inks As Alternative To Color E-Paper Display Tech (But It’s Early Days) February 18, 2025 by Super User A lot of the display chatter at ISE was about e-paper, and all kind of vendors big and small had demos that used E Ink’s technology as the core display tech. But there wasn’t much of the way of alternatives – except maybe these guys, who are still very early stage, but had a very …
ISE 2025 – Lotsa E-Paper, Including Some Big Fellas February 6, 2025 by Super User There are numerous companies big and smallish showing color e-paper displays at ISE this week – everything from previously seen variations of E Ink’s Spectra 6 to DOOH street furniture-sized 75-inchers that use E Ink’s Kaleido 3, which has quite limited color support and a filter that doesn’t allow anywhere near the saturation of Spectra …
This 32-Inch Color E-Paper Display Runs Just Off The Power Harvested From Indoor Lighting In Retail January 28, 2025 by Super User The Taiwan firm Agile Display Solutions is launching an interesting new color e-paper display at ISE next week that uses E Ink’s Spectra 6 technology and is powered only by the ambient light in the environment – like overhead lighting in a retail shop. That would be why it is called the Forever Display, which …
German Firm Longshine To Demo Color E-Paper Menu Boards At ISE January 23, 2025 by Super User 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” …
Chinese Manufacturer Finds A Way To Get Video Running Smooth-ish On E-Paper Displays January 23, 2025 by Super User 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 …
DynaScan Confirms Plans To Demo 75-Inch Color E-Paper Ad Totem At ISE January 22, 2025 by Super User Taiwan display manufacturer DynaScan has confirmed it is adding a large-format e-paper display to a product line-up that has been dominated by high-brightness LCD display totems for digital out of home advertising. When I was in Taiwan in late October, and had a tour of DynaScan’s impressive headquarters and production facility, the company hinted it …
ESL Companies Start Harvesting In-Store Light To Power Shelf-Edge Displays January 17, 2025 by Super User 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 Super User 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 …
