E Ink - Page 5

Liquavista is showing their color e-paper display at CES. They say they expect product announcements in 2010/2011. Here's a nice video showing how it compares to an E Ink display:

Skiff (owned by Hearst corporation) has announced their Skiff e-reader. It has the largest display of all current e-readers at 11.5". It's actually a flexible E Ink touchscreen, with a 1200x1600 pixel resolution. 

The display is a rugged metal-foil on a flexible stainless-steel substrate. It is made by LG Display (who licensed E Ink just a few days ago). Skiff say that it's shatter-proof and crack-proof.

Apple are working on a tablet computer - this rumor has been around for ages. Now there are new rumors that the new gadget will primarily be an e-reader. Obviously that might shake up the whole e-reader market...

It'll be interesting to see what kind of display will the new device have. The best display for e-readers is e-paper (currently almost all e-readers use E Ink displays). There were rumors that Apple will use OLEDs in their new tablet. We'll have to wait and see...

PVI has signed a deal with LG Display, which will be able to make E Ink based panels. LG Displays has invested (in bonds) around $30 million in Hydis, PVI's subsidiary.

Via the Financial Times

IBM is developing new systems for retail and energy suppliers. This is part of their 'Smarter-Planet' initiative to create useful, efficient and green systems. IBM has shown new electronic shelf labels that use E Ink to display prices. The labels themselves are made by MariSense.

IBM E Ink shelf labels

Via Silicon.com

China's Hanwang is currently using 5" E Ink displays (made by PVI) for their e-readers. They have now started to use AUO's panels (9" ones) for future products in 2010.

Hanwang hopes to sell over 500,000 e-readers in 2009, and over a million in 2010.

Via e-reader-info

The Bookeen Cybook Opus e-reader is now available, for 215$. The Opus is a small reader, weighting only 150 grams, with a 6" E Ink display. It supports ePub and PDF files, has 1Gb of internal memory (plus a microSD card slot).

The Opus is available now for 215$.