E Ink Holdings announced that the company had to halt ePaper production in its plant in Yangshou, China due to a COVID breakout in the city. The infections are now receding, and it seems as if the outbreak is under control.
Even with this disruption, EIH believes that its 2021 net profit will increase from 2020. Its revenues in August, however, will be effected by the shutdown.
US-based Digital View has installed a public ePaper sign in the City of Brisbane, California. The display shows public information, for example about COVID-19 vaccine clinics in the area.
The 84" display is made from three 42-inch panels, with a total resolution of 6440x2880. The system includes Digital View's own EPM-100 drivers and uses an LTE modem for content updates>
The Ricoh eWhiteboard 4200 is a large digital whiteboard that use a 42-inch E Ink Carta display with support for two pens. The device is waterproof, dust-proof, and highly power efficient. It weighs 5.9 Kg and is only 14.5 mm thick.
The eWhiteboard is now shipping, in Japan only.
Mark Gurman posted an article on Bloomberg, in which he claims that Amazon is developing a Kindle device with a foldable screen. Or, at least, that such a device is under an "internal discussion".
Last month E Ink demonstrated its latest foldable and rollable ePaper displays, which you can see in the video above. It's not clear how close are these display to commercialization. It isn't a big surprise that Amazon is testing these displays and considering a foldable Kindle.
Fujitsu's Quaderno A4 and A5 (2021 edition) are eNotebook devices that sports large E Ink Carta displays - 10.3" 1404x1872 (227 PPI) for the A5 and 13.3" 1650x2200 (207 PPI) for the A4. Other features include Wacom touch support, a Cortex A53 chipset, 32 GB of storage and 4GB of RAM.
The tablets are now shipping starting at $570 for the A5 device.
The Geniatech KloudNote is a eNotebook device that features a 10.3" 1872 x 1404 E Ink display with pen input, an Cortex-A35 chipset, 2GB of RAM, up to 32GB of storage and optional support for 3G/LTE connectivity.
The KloudNote will ship soon, starting at $449.
US-based Solchroma develops a novel reflective inks and actuators based display technology, targeting the outdoor signage market (at least as a first step).
The company introduced its interesting technology at SID Displayweek 2021. The company's CEO, Dr. Roger Diebold was kind enough to explain the company's technology and business to E-Ink-Info.
Hello Roger, thank you for your time. Can you explain Solchroma's ePaper technology?
Solchroma creates reflective digital displays to change how we interact with the built environment and world around us. Solchroma’s technology is based on hydraulically forcing of colored liquid ink in and out of view. A backplane of actuators acts as an array of electrically-controlled pumps that push on nearby reservoirs of ink. Ink reservoirs are shielded from view by a white reflector, while simultaneously allowing passage of ink from the reservoirs behind the reflector to three sealed, viewable chambers stacked one atop the next on the viewable side.