E Ink Surf

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:

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).

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 is showing some nice segmented dispaly (SURF) prototypes. I really like the surfboard concept:

E Ink released a couple of very interesting videos. The first shows a SURF (segmented) E Ink display printed on cloth. E Ink are obviously thinking about wearable displays here:

The second video shows an E Ink display on a Tyvex cloth - which is a very durable cloth (used as insulation on houses and for shipping envelopes):

E Ink launched a new and interesting product today. It's a monochrome SURF E Ink display that is laminated behind color overlays. It looks like a color display, which is rather neat (you can click on the image to get a higher-res version):

E Ink is launching the new product together with Sino Pac Bank and the Miramar department store, which will use these as flashing point-of-purchase displays in the food courts of Maramar department stores (in Taipei, Taiwan).

E Ink has shipped over 20 million flexible SURF (segmented) displays - into applications ranging from wrist watches to smart cards to mobile phones to indoor signs. The company has won the 2011 FLEXI award from the FlexTech Alliance. The FLEXI Awards recognize significant accomplishments in R&D, innovative product development, and leadership in education within the flexible, printed electronics and displays industries.

E Ink's active-matrix flexible displays aren't commercialized yet - but the company is working with over a dozen companies towards that goal.