AUO has taken a major stake in the electronic paper display market by becoming a major shareholder (over 30%) in SiPix Imaging. Taiwan’s largest manufacturer of thin film transistor liquid display panels, AUO Optronics Corporation (AUO) also ranks in the top three TFT-LCD manufacturers in the world. The company was formed...

The critical state of the declining newspaper industry is well-known and well-documented. The continuing expansion of alternative media has taken both revenue and readership from conventional printed newspapers for some time now. Scrambling to staunch the bleeding, newspaper publishers have explored various means to secure...

Recently, Plextronics announced the opening of its first manufacturing development line (D-line) to begin manufacturing printed solar cells. What does this have to do with e-paper? A lot actually…read on. High-Functionality Inks Headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA, Plextronics has developed Plexcore® polymers and inks, a...

E-paper technology, along with the general printed electronics sector, is moving forward at an accelerating pace. More and more products are being commercialized, and more application areas are being penetrated. The question then arises: Where are the printers in printed electronics? It is increasingly obvious that printers...

A Lancome advertisement sporting an e-paper display was recently spotted in a Tokyo train. The display technology looks very similar to E Ink’s Ink In Motion. It seems the Japanese are embracing e-paper signage for advertising faster than anyone else. We will see more of this in the coming months. In addition to POP signage,...

Although the company will not confirm, industry sources report that Prime View International is gearing up for mass production of flexible electrophoretic displays (EPDs) by the second quarter of 2009, with production of color displays soon to follow. The devices are the world’s first flexible active matrix EPD made in...

We’ve already seen seen Mobile Firefox demonstrated with the E Ink Developer kit. Now a group called MOTO has shown with a proof of concept video that the Google Android OS can operate using the E Ink Development Kit. With display interfacing taken care of, developers can now focus on creating low power, custom Android...

An E-reader is only as strong as the words that appear on its low-power screen. Without a content deal, it will be nearly impossible to compete with the Kindle 2 and its massive Amazon.com library. Plastic Logic is making a gallant effort this week, announcing deals with a half-dozen media partners to provide content for its...

New Color E-Reader debuts on the heels of the Kindle 2 Is the Kindle 2 already obsolete? In Japan, grayscale is not on the menu. A new color e-reader has stepped to the table and said “Welcome to the Fujiya Kinshicho Termina Restaurant. May I please take your order?” This week, Toyko-based Fujitsu is showcasing...

Amazon held a press conference today announcing the next generation of their Kindle e-reader. The buzz has been building the last two months, with leaked images and speculations appearing on almost any blog, website or twitter feed that follows the tech gadget and publishing industry. Improved E Ink Display One of the biggest...

In the face of increasing competition from alternative media, newspapers have been struggling for survival for some time as both subscriber and advertising revenues continue to shrink. Newspaper printers have sought multiple solutions to cut costs ranging from switching to lighter weight paper to garnering incremental revenue...

A colleague recently asked me if I thought that the continued emergence of e-paper would mean the demise of traditional printing, particularly offset. “No way!” I responded. And that answer stands, although on reflection it is not really that simple. Although e-paper uses the terminology “paper” and...

Toppan Printing Company recently participated in a field test of a disaster emergency system using e-paper displays at regular intervals in Tokyo streets. The goal was to assess the effectiveness of such a system to provide residents with disaster prevention and evacuation information should a catastrophic event, such as an...

The Kindle was the icebreaker but a new flood of e-paper devices will soon be here. The Swedes are betting that environmental issues and new color displays will create demand worldwide. Swedish innovators have been working on the next generation of e-paper devices for nearly six years, with the hopes that their new ideas could...

Berlin-based txtr plans to liberate your documents library. But will anyone be reading? It sounds like a cool concept. Whoever thought of pairing an e-paper reader with a social network knew they could still catch some leftover Web 2.0 buzz. Package that buzz with a veiled potential to unleash thousands of publicly-owned documents...

Electronic paper (e-paper) has emerged as a radically new display technology, using reflective rather than emissive technology to create images. Unlike paper, e-paper allows for constant information updates via a network. Conversely, with low power usage and the ability to be read in daylight, it challenges more traditional...