E Ink Highlight

·        Patrick George of The Verge reported on BMW’s new color-changing concept car, the i Vision Dee, and noted that it can change colors on command thanks to the 240 E Ink segments that cover the car.

 

Industry Highlight

·        Marianne Wilson of Chain Store Age reported on the retail technology trends of 2023 according to experts in the industry, listing AI/ML, sustainability, and a focus on customers as some of the things we can expect.

 

E Ink Media Report – January 5, 2023

 

E Ink News

 

US/Global

 

Lenovo Enters the E Ink Battle With Lenovo Smart Paper

ZDNet

By Charles McLellan

January 5, 2023

While E Ink tablets have been around for a while, there has been renewed interest in them from hardware makers recently, for example with Amazon announcing its Kindle Scribe late last year. And now Lenovo is getting into the game too, with its Smart Paper tablet.

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Lenovo Made a Windows Laptop With a Rotating E Ink Display

Gizmodo

By Michelle Ehrhardt

January 5, 2023

E ink has been big lately. BMW’s covered cars with it, and Lenovo’s put it on laptop lids, so you can have a document pulled up even with your laptop closed. There have even been E Ink typewriters, which promise writers a comfortable and distraction-free writing experience by pairing a keyboard with an E Ink display. Perhaps encouraged by how trendy E Ink’s been as of late, Lenovo’s now expanding on its E Ink lid computer by taking a note from those typewriters, letting us use E Ink as our main laptop display in the new ThinkBook Plus Twist.

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Check Out BMW’s Color-Changing Concept Car In Action

The Verge

By Patrick George

January 5, 2023

At CES a year ago, BMW’s iX Flow concept was billed as “the world’s first color-changing car.” At the time, the special version of the iX electric crossover could shift its various panels between white, black, and gray. Now, for 2023, meet the upgrade: actual colors. For this year’s CES, BMW showed off the i Vision Dee, an electric sports sedan concept that previewed a whole raft of technologies we could see in the immediate future, like AI-powered virtual assistants and full-windshield heads-up displays. But it also included a full-color version of the E Ink technology seen on last year’s concept for the first time ever.

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Fossil Gen 6 Hybrid Wellness Edition Features E Ink Display

Good eReader

By Sovan Mandal

January 4, 2023

The Fossil Gen 6 series of smartwatches have a new member in the form of the Fossil Gen 6 Hybrid Wellness Edition. As Android Police reported, the primary difference from the Gen 6 Wellness edition is that there is an E Ink display watch-face this time, with the other difference being that it does not run the Wear OS. Also, it being a hybrid device, there also exist two physical hands which act to tell the time though you can also have it in digital format in the inner circular E Ink watch face.

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Competitor

 

CES 2023: TCL’s Nxtpaper 12 Pro Could Be a Sweet iPad/Kindle Hybrid Tablet

Digital Trends

By Nadeem Sarwar

January 4, 2023

At CES 2023, TCL dropped a whole bag of gadgets — including new phones, a Windows convertible, and a new tablet with its own take on the color e-ink tech. Say hello to the TCL Nxtpaper 12 Pro tablet, which aims to beat the likes of Apple and Samsung with a palatable price, a screen that feels like paper, and a large canvas, too.

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Industry

 

PPDS To Unveil Digital Signage That ‘Needs No Power’ at ISE

AV Magazine

January 4, 2023

PPDS will showcase the ‘world’s most energy-efficient, eco-friendly’ digital signage range at ISE 2023 in Barcelona. In what is believed to be an industry first for a leading display manufacturer, PPDS will unveil a signage range that is said to be capable of showing content without using any power. PPDS’s commitment to delivering sustainable and environmentally conscious solutions, while also helping to reduce running costs through increased energy efficiency and extended lifetimes, will also feature across the Philips L-Line dvLED range, Philips MediaSuite hospitality TVs and a range of digital signage updates.

 

Tech Predictions for 2023

Chain Store Age

By Marianne Wilson

January 4, 2023

Experts from several retail technology companies gazed into their crystal balls to provide a view of what the industry will experience in 2023 and beyond … Consumers will spend, albeit more cautiously, next year. While inflation may subdue over time, that will only occur with more rate increases from central banks, forcing customers to hold off on larger purchases and shop more for value.