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2016 is soon over - and this has been an interesting year for the e-paper industry. In 2016 we continued to see the trend that began a few years ago - with the focus of the industry on signage and retail applications rather than e-readers. 

Here are the top 10 stories posted on E-Ink-Info in 2016, ranked by popularity (i.e. how many people read the story):

• Visionect launches an E Ink meeting room digital sign (Jan 12)
• Amazon Kindle was a huge success at the company's second annual Prime Day (Jul 14)
• E Ink demonstrate new color and flexible e-Paper panels at SID 2016 (Jun 4)
• Singapore installs 11 color E Ink bus stop information boards (Aug 7)
• Guangzou OED develops a graphene-based e-paper technology, to start making displays within a year (May 1)
• E Ink shows tiled digital signage demonstrator (Jan 9)
• E Ink invest in Wuxi Vision Peak, to collaborate on e-paper applications (Jan 28)
• Is Amazon ready to release an 8" color electrowetting e-reader soon? (Jul 7)
• Video interview with E Ink's global marketing chief (Jan 18)
• CHK to introduce E Ink digital bus stops and other public transportation information solutions (Mar 17)

2016 will soon come to an end, and we are getting ready to summarize another interesting spintronics year. One year ago we posted the top E Ink stories in 2015, and you can see the list below again:

• World's first E Ink traffic signs installed in Australia
• E Ink reports Q4 2014 financial results, expects modest grow in e-reader shipments
• Waveshare now offers 4.3" E Ink Serial modules
• Onyx reportedly developing a consumer 13.3" E Ink e-reader
• Hauwei's P8 flagship smartphone has an E Ink cover accessory
• Displio: a 2.7-inch E Ink connected display
• Pebble raises over $8 million towards the color e-paper watch
• Will Samsung release an E Ink cover for the Galaxy S6?
• Looksee launches a successful crowdfunding campaign for their Eyecatcher E Ink bracelet
• Microsoft demonstrates a tablet keyboard cover with an E Ink touch display

What will be the most popular E Ink stories in 2016? We will soon post our yearly review, stay tuned!

The Triby is Invoxia’s new connected speaker. It can play music from your cell phone (or connect to music apps like spotify), make in-group VoIP calls and send messages, on top of being the first non-Amazon device to take advantage of the Alexa Voice Service. The Triby includes a 2.9” active-matrix (296x128, 112 PPI) E Ink panel, and the company was kind enough to send a review unit to E-Ink-Info.

The Triby is a great looking device, with a fun design that can be defined as retro-chic. It actually reminded me of an old-school kitchen radio - which it sort of is, but with a modern twist. The Triby has physical buttons for options like volume control, contact/radio station selection and an Alexa button. A nice touch was a yellow flag that pops out the side of the device to signal receiving a message. After someone reads the message, they can push the flag back in and the sender will get a notification that their message was read.

In January 2016 Visionect launched its JOAN Meeting Room Assistant, and we're happy to announce that Visionect now offers free shipping for E-Ink-Info readers. JOAN uses a 6" E Ink Pearl panel to provide a beautiful calendar scheduling solution, connecting wirelessly to your calendar, and running on batteries for months between charges.

JOAN costs €349 - to claim your free shipping, simply use the coupon EINKINFO20A9 when you checkout. JOAN can be a great way to spruce up your meeting rooms!

We are happy to invite all our readers to follow the new E-Ink-Info LinkedIn company page. LinkedIn is a great place to meet and find new professionals. If you follow the new company page, you will get ePaper updates directly to your feed, and also be able to connect to other ePaper professionals.

In addition to the company page, we have also setup a new e-Paper interest group - which will hopefully become a new forum for discussions and an exchange of knowledge, news and opinions. All focused on e-Paper and E Ink, of course. Join our new group now!

E Ink had a very interesting booth at SID 2016, showcasing its new color e-paper displays, and also other new and existing displays and prototypes.

First up, we have E Ink's new Advanced Color ePaper (ACeP), which is a high-quality full-color E Ink display. ACeP enables rich-color displays, which is enabled by colored pigments and not color-filters like in E Ink's older color displays.

We are happy to announce a new Metalgrass knowledge hub, RRAM-Info.com, that focuses on RRAM, or Resistive RAM technology. RRAM is a promising next-generation storage-memory candidate, based on memristors - materials that change their resistance.

RRAM-Info will bring you daily news, commentary and updates about RRAM memory technologies. You can subscribe to our weekly RRAM newsletter here - and if you have not done so already, be sure to also subscribe to the free e-paper newsletter!