British Airways is going to trial new luggage tags that use E Ink displays. The tags were designed and developed by Densitron Technologies (and the cases created by Designworks), and include NFC so that passengers can tag their luggage using their smartphones. This will save paper tags and also will save time during the check-in process.
The FlexTech Alliance completed its 154th technical project and developed a flexible medical triage bandage which monitors vital signs. Physical Optics Corporation and E Ink Corporation collaborated on this project and produced the bandage, which includes a printed circuit board (PCB), low power microcontroller, flexible E Ink panel, energy harvesting, a Bluetooth wireless interface and physiological sensors (ECG, skin temperature, and respiration rate).
The two companies say that the initial feedback was extremely positive and hopefully this will be commercialized into a product in the future.
CopyTele (CTI) announced that is has been awarded a new US Patent that covers electrophoretic displays. The patent relates to improvements in the resolution and response time for particles used to generate images. CTI now has 13 US patents for e-paper electrophoretic displays.
In January 2013 CTI filed a lawsuit against E Ink Holdings, alleging an elaborate scheme to steal valuable, patented electrophoretic display technologies developed by CopyTele. CTI also filed a similar lawsuit against AU Optronics.
E Ink announced a new 1.73" flexible "Mobius" display, specifically engineered for smartwatch and watch applications. The display features a 320x240 resolution and 16 grayscale levels, and it can be cut into different shapes.
The first produce to use this new display is the Sonostar Smartwatch, which was announced at Computex, Taiwan. The watch was jointly developed by Sonostar and E Ink's subsidiary Transmart.
