The newly - opened Estonian National Museum
uses electronic paper displays to enhance the visitor experience.
The solution was Visionect's fully personalized, smart and sustainable indoor wayfinding and information solution which
uses electronic paper displays and Bluetooth beacons in conjunction with a smartphone app: Place & Play Concierge Privé.
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It used an electronic paper display developed by E Ink Corporation, was viewable in direct sunlight, required no power to maintain a static image, and was usable in portrait or landscape orientation.
Using an electronic paper display, the device is viewable in direct sunlight and requires no power to maintain a static image.
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You may retrieve and
display Packaging Europe magazine Content from Site on a computer screen or mobile device, print individual pages on
paper (but not photocopy them) and store such pages in
electronic form on your computer or mobile device for your personal, non-commercial
use.
The advancement has many potential applications, including
electronic skin (thin
electronic material that mimics human skin, often
used in robotic and health applications), bendable
display screens and
electronic paper.
Kindle
uses a high - resolution
display technology called
electronic paper that provides a sharp black and white screen that is as easy to read as printed
paper.
It allows developers to
use regular HTML5, CSS and Javascript to easily build apps to be
displayed on the
electronic paper sign, and ensures the scalability and large - deployment readiness of the System Board.
The overwhelming majority of the e-readers on the market today
use so - called
electronic paper displays from a company called E-Ink (now owned by Taiwanese
display company Prime View International).
Designed to be loved by the public and easy to install for cities and developers, the Soofa Sign is made up of a color 32 - inch E Ink
electronic paper display and is powered by Visionect's advanced signage technology, which allows the e-
paper screen to
use up as little energy as possible and seamlessly update the sign with real - time content.
Ursa Primozic is the Communication Manager at Visionect, developers of an ultra-low power
electronic paper display platform which enables the
use of digital
displays in environments before not possible.
«It reflects light like ordinary
paper and
uses no backlight, eliminating the eyestrain and glare associated with other
electronic displays such as computer monitors or PDA screens,» Amazon boasted.
Unlike the Nook, the full - color screen beneath the Alex's
electronic paper display can be
used for more than navigation; you can surf the web, view pictures and videos, and (eventually) run apps.
The Reader's high - resolution
electronic paper display delivers a realistic print look that rivals traditional
paper and
uses minimal power.
Place & Play is a new product from Visionect and it combines mount,
display and player in a single
electronic paper device that
uses extremely little power (99 % less than LCD or LED) and has a battery life of up to one year.
Electronic paper (or ePaper) represents a category of
display solutions that have become quite popular over the past year or so, mostly due to the rapid «rise to stardom» of the various eBook readers that have made their way onto the market within this time frame and that make very good
use of this technology.
E-
paper, or
electronic paper, is a
display used in e-readers on which text appears as it would on printed
paper.
Fuji Xerox Co Ltd showed an electrophoretic type
electronic paper (e-
paper) that realizes color
display without
using a color filter on the opening day of SID 2012, which runs from June 3 to 8, 2012, in Boston, the US.
The sign
uses electronic paper from fellow MIT Media Lab spinout E-Ink Corporation which delivers advanced
display products to the world's most influential brands and manufacturers, enabling them to install extremely durable, low power
displays in previously impossible or unimaginable environments.
Kindle
uses a high - resolution
display technology called
electronic paper, creating a black - and - white screen designed to be as easy to read as printed
paper, Amazon.com said.
Examples of Hearst early - stage investments include Netscape; XM Satellite Radio; Sling Media; and E Ink Corporation, the company behind the novel «
electronic paper»
display technology
used in most e-book devices today.
It reflects light like ordinary
paper and
uses no backlight, designed to eliminate the glare associated with
electronic displays such as computer monitors or PDA (personal digital assistant) screens.
Like the Kindle, Plastic Logic
uses an «
electronic ink»
display, which looks somewhat similar to regular
paper and consumes very little power.
Developed with Philips, it was billed as the first commercial device of its kind to
use E-ink's
electronic paper display technology.
The
electronic paper displays used in the Amazon Kindle and Sony eReaders are made by Prime View.
iRex Technologies» higher - end (and much pricier $ 699) iLiad, launched in July 2006 with WiFi access, pushes its
electronic -
paper display to 16 levels of gray and allows input via stylus on a A5 - size touch screen, so it can actually be
used like a
paper notebook.
The Kindle (as in the sparkling ignition of knowledge) was conceived with overtly bookish analogies, from its paperback size and
electronic «
paper»
display to the librarian - monikered Whispernet (based on mobile - phone carrier Sprint's EVDO broadband service)
used to beam content into the box.
PaperPhone: Understanding the
Use of Bend Gestures in Mobile Devices with Flexible
Electronic Paper Displays.
With the dual - screen design, users can read a text or newspaper on the larger upper screen, which
uses monochrome
electronic paper display technology, and also check hyperlinked multimedia information on the lower, smaller color LCD screen.
(Phys.org)-- Fuji Xerox has come up with an electrophoretic type
electronic paper (e-
paper) prototype that can realize a color
display without
using a color filter.
Unlike a conventional flat panel
display, which
uses a backlight to illuminate its pixels,
electronic paper reflects light like ordinary
paper and is capable of holding text and images indefinitely without drawing electricity, while allowing the image to be changed later.
The Kindle hardware devices
use E Ink brand
electronic paper displays, and are able to download content over Amazon Whispernet
using the Sprint EVDO network.
All ereaders that are
using similar 16 shades of grey high contrast Active Matrix Monochrome
Electronic Paper Display.
This design concept is different from Sony's upcoming Reader, where the Epson A6 QXGA
Electronic Paper display is flexible,
using a manufacturing process called «surface free technology by laser annealing» (SUFTLA).
The
electronic paper screen from E Ink ™
uses charged ink particles to provide an ultra-high contrast
display.
The Slovenian capital among the first cities in the world to start
using electronic paper technology to
display passenger information.
With its 13 - inch E Ink
electronic paper screen, Onethree supports all major content management systems, its open Application Programming Interface (API) making
displaying content a simple matter of
using a website address.
The Sonder
electronic paper keyboard is truly one keyboard to rule them all: with every key a small customizable eink screen, Sonder is the epitome of customizable, with the keys programmable to
display any icon, letter or number you want it to, depending on the application being
used (image source: Sonder).
At Visionect we responded to the trends of the digital signage market that sees digital signage
displays used in new and exciting ways, launching in second half of 2014 a new
electronic paper platform that enables the creation of custom epaper signage solutions for any industry.
After all, an
electronic paper display (EPD) will
use up to 99 % less energy than a traditional
display, meaning that it can be powered by a battery and needs no wires, and will feature
paper - like readability in all light conditions.
Designed by Technoframe and running on Visionect technology powering E Ink ®'s
electronic paper screens, London's new bus stops have superb visibility in all light conditions, and
use no energy to retain an image
displayed.
The new true - color
display retains the ultra-low power functionality of
electronic paper as well as its readability, but adds so much more to the game: the option of
using the screens in all aspects of commercial signage.
The Kindle, like most ebook readers,
uses electronic paper to
display E Ink in such a way as to mimic the look of the printed page.
The predecessor to
electronic paper, the Gyricon, a Greek term for a rotating image, was invented in 1974 in the labs of the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center as a
display that would be high - contrast enough to allow the Alto personal computer to be
used in brightly lit environments.
The predecessor to
electronic paper, the Gyricon, is invented in 1974 in the labs of the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center as a
display that would be high - contrast enough to allow the Alto personal computer to be
used in brightly lit environments.
An
electronic paper screen will
use 99 % less energy than digital signs normally do: this can be as low as 1 - 2W for a 32» panel with a front light, and nearly 0W for a static and unlit
display.
The Soofa Sign is made up of a color 32 - inch E Ink ®
electronic paper display and is powered by Visionect's advanced signage technology, which allows the e-
paper screen to
use up as little energy as possible and seamlessly update the sign with real - time content.
There is only one
display technology that checks all the boxes of versatile indoor and outdoor
use:
electronic paper.
Kindle reads like printed words on
paper because the screen works
using real ink and doesn't
use a backlight, eliminating the eyestrain and glare associated with other
electronic displays.
An
electronic paper display shows an image even without a power source, and
uses electricity only when the content on screen is changing — resulting in amazing battery longevity.