Making cities smarter with ePaper As technologically advanced urban areas, designed to take on 21st century challenges, smart cities have the potential to meet the needs of a global urban population growing at an astonishing 3 million people per week. Making the right investments in smart city projects can mitigate the frustrations city-dwellers and tourists typically…
Duration, durability, and duality: How ePaper is challenging compromise Glass displays are prevalent in the majority of current technologies, with design teams and engineers around the world mass producing them for a number of applications like TVs, tablets and wearables. Despite analysts predicting the OLED display market will grow to $57 billion in 2026, it’s…
Reducing paper wastage and your carbon footprint with ePaper displays ‘Going green’ is becoming increasingly attractive to people and businesses worldwide, with consumers now choosing brands based on their social and environmental impact. We’re seeing a general drive towards society becoming more environmentally friendly fuelled by a greater societal awareness and understanding around the impact…
EPDs: What can we expect in 2018 and beyond? Plastic Logic reached some incredible milestones throughout 2017, working alongside brands such as BAR, Blendology, L!BER8 and Fuze to create innovate sailing displays, smart jewellery, networking badges and multi-function credit cards that have served to illustrate the enormous diversity and potential of e-paper technology. In this blog we quiz…
EPD shelf edge labels in the supermarket freezer aisle E-paper technology has advanced rapidly over the last 15-20 years and is now recognised as a proven technology with genuine use cases across a number of industries, so much so that the market is expected to reach $28.87 billion by 2022. Retail is one those industries…
E-paper displays transforming the smartphone experience The e-paper market has come a long way since its inception in 1970s and has matured into a proven technology with a genuine business case and a huge breadth of different successful applications. However, one area where EPDs have made less impact is the smartphone market. Despite e-paper…
Flexibly fashionable – a new generation of clothing Delving into the world of fashion, some of the industry’s most exciting developments are currently happening far away from the runways of London, Milan and Paris. A new age of fashion technology, or ‘FashTech’, is approaching with innovative lab-based work involving the use of bacteria to dye clothing,…
Celebrating engineering achievement How Plastic Logic industrialised large-area printed organic electronics and catalysed the e-paper display market Earlier this month we were pleased to learn that the Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET) — one of the world’s largest engineering institutions with over 168,000 members in 150 countries — had shortlisted Plastic Logic in…
What’s new in wearables and how can e-paper displays improve existing devices? The wearables market has certainly encountered its ups and downs over the last few years. The boom of fitness trackers and smartwatches coming onto the market has certainly made waves, but wearable tech in general has had a mixed reception. The marmite of…
E-paper displays explained We so often eulogise about the limitless possibilities e-paper displays enable and the exciting opportunities the technology creates for market growth, differentiation and competitive advantage — but for the uninitiated reader, we thought it might be helpful in this blog to take a step back and look at how e-paper works. E-paper…