E Ink Inc

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:

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.

E Ink announced a new sweepstakes in which they give away four Phosphor watches - one each week. You simply need to like E Ink's facebook page and then apply to the giveaway.

Here's our hands-on review of the Phosphor E Ink watch, and the Phosphor world time watch. Both use a SURF (segmented) E Ink display.

E Ink released three nice videos of its FPD-2011 booth: showing the new E Ink displays, panels and applications:

E Ink is showing e-paper displays used in educational applications at the FPD 2011 exhibition. You can see a large board display, a music stand and some 'desktop' displays - all based on E Ink of course:

E Ink Holdings reported revenue of NT$2.25 billion ($74.5 million USD) for 3Q 2011 - up 20% from 2Q. The net profit for the first nine months of 2011 was NT$5.25 billion ($173.8 million USD). The company expects the business to continue to improve in the last quarter based on strong e-reader demand.

The company's chairman says that e-readers are recession-proof - because in bad times people spend more time reading. He says that he's still optimistic that e-reader shipments will reach 25-30 million units in 2011.

E Ink's Pearl e-paper displays are made in a roll-to-roll manufacturing process, and these can be made up to one kilometer in length. Our friends over at E Ink sent us these cool photos of a long E Ink roll, they seemed to be having fun with that one:

The display roll is made in E Ink's factory in Massachusetts (USA), but the TFT backplane lamination and final processing is performed in E Ink's factory in Taiwan. Here's another great photo of the roll from above: