ePaper exercise book-E Ink display innovation for smart education

Flashpoint Smart Calendar is an office gadget with a 6-inch black and white ePaper display. The product started crowdfunding on the Alibaba crowdfunding platform in mid-2023 and began shipping to its followers at the end of 2023.

Lithuanian startup company a Phone, a Friend Co. has introduced an AI concept phone with an ePaper display that can verbally report users' schedules, social media summaries, and news updates.

At the Frieze Art Fair in Los Angeles, BMW used ePaper technology to create a dynamic art installation featuring the work of South African artist Esther Mahlangu, on the 2024 BMW i5 Flow Nostokana. This creative inspiration comes from the 1991 BMW E34 525i art car.

SEEKINK, a leading provider of e-paper technology solutions, attended #ISE2024 in Barcelona for the second time, showcasing how it is at the forefront of expanding e-paper technology beyond its tried and tested environments.

Lenovo showcased the ThinkBook X Concept 13.5-inch laptop at CES 2024. The standout feature of this product is the adoption of a color low-power ePaper display on the A surface, which supports user-customized patterns and can also display a dynamic clock.

Ilkka Turunen has come up with a genius idea to turn daily schedules into art snapshots using Gen AI and ePaper displays. In this project, called Kuvastin by Turunen, GPT-4 is used to generate a text from a person’s schedule information, which is then used as a prompt for DALL-E 3 to generate an image. Midjourney is then used to generate a short image description, and the image and description are finally presented on an ePaper.

E Ink adjusted its revenue forecast for 2023 due to the continued inventory surplus of the three-color ePaper displays used in electronic shelf labels (ESL) by its supply chain partners.