E-Paper news and resources

Here's a great 17-minutes interview with E Ink's Sriram Peruvembra showing the latest E Ink devices and discussing's their "E Ink on every smart surface" vision:

The Eton Rukus Solar is a portable Bluetooth sound system with solar panels and a SURF (segmented) E Ink display. This is an outdoor sound system - hence the Solar and E Ink display...

The Rukus Solar is expected to ship in Q2 2012 for $150.

A while back E Ink made these cool large "MicroCapsules" - these are little snow globes showing how E Ink works (they actually sent me several, I'll post about these one day). Anyway if you're attending CES, you'd be happy to know that E Ink will be giving away a thousand of these little capsules... here's more info.

Coop Denmark, Denmark's leading consumer goods retailer plans to start using e-paper shelf labels in their stores. The first phase will rollout the labels in 77 stores (in a $9.2 million investment), and is already under way.

They are using ZBD's bistable LCD e-paper labels.

In the holidays and end-of-the-year spirit, here are the top 10 stories posted on E-Ink-Info in 2011, ranked by popularity (i.e. how many people read the story):

1. Bookeen shows smooth video playback on an E Ink display (Feb 14)
2. Bookeen shows real time web page scrolling on E Ink panel (May 20)
3. Sony shows a 13.3" OTFT-driven bendable E Ink prototype (May 23)
4. AUO's Sipix e-paper is now fast enough for video (6fps) (Jun 19)
5. Cool E Ink Pearl display roll photos... (Oct 17)
6. First color E Ink e-reader to launch in the UK in December? (Aug 20)
7. Delta Electronics to make flexible color displays in 2014 (Jun 14)
8. Delta shows 4.1", 8.2", 13.1" and 21" color touch e-paper display prototypes (Jun 3)
9. Fujitsu shows a new prototype color e-reader (Jul 12)
10. Sony shows a 13.3" flexible color e-paper prototype (May 19)

Here's for an awesome 2012. May you all enjoy the holidays!

Update: The giveaway rules have changed a bit - in addition to liking the OLED-Info page, you'll need to like the giveaway post on facebook as well... The random winner will be chosen from all the people who like the post and are an OLED-Info fan as well. Good luck!

Our sister-site OLED-Info is running an holiday giveaway - with a chance to win a free copy of The OLED Handbook, and two phosphor world-time E Ink watches (which were kindly provided by E Ink). These three cool prizes will be randomly given to three lucky fans of OLED-Info's facebook page on January 1st. To participate, click like on the OLED-Info page, and also like the giveaway post.

The Phosphor world-time E Ink watch has a SURF (segmented) E Ink display that offers 24 time zones and several displays modes. It's a large watch, and it takes some time to get used to, but it looks good and draws a lot of attention... Here's our hands review of this watch. This watch costs $125 at Amazon.com (although it's currently out-of-stock).

Kyobo (a leading Korean book retailer) launched its first e-reader today - and it uses a color Mirasol display - a capacitive touch 5.7" 1024x768 panel with Qualcomm's front-light LED technology that can illuminate the display. Other features include a 1Ghz processor, Android v2.3 and Wi-Fi. The e-reader is now shipping in Korea for around $300.