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Wednesday, April 11, 2001 Media Cynic | Forum | Advertising | Classifieds | Jobs E Ink Demonstrates High Resolution Electronic Ink Display 
E Ink Corporation, a developer and marketer of electronic ink
technology, announced that it has demonstrated an active matrix
electronic ink display capable of producing high
resolution illustrations and text. E Ink says this is
a step toward a new generation of highly mobile devices such
as cellular phones, personal digital assistants (PDAs) and
reader devices with screens as easy to read as ink on paper.
The display prototype is 12.1 inches diagonally with the resolution of a typical laptop computer monitor and is capable of creating high quality images, including illustrations. To make the electronic ink easily compatible with the necessary electronics, E Ink scientists developed a new version of electronic ink that changes ten times faster than the previous version. Contrast was also improved by switching the ink from blue to deep black. ``By demonstrating high resolution electronic ink for the first time, we have proven that E Ink is ready to work with the world's leading display companies to develop the next-generation in electronic device displays,'' said Jim Iuliano, president and CEO of E Ink. ``This advance also brings us one step closer to paper-like electronic displays that preserve many of the same qualities we enjoy in books and newspapers today.'' IBM Research provided some of the electronics used in their laptop displays to E Ink for the research prototype. Starting with the active matrix from IBM, E Ink engineers added the electronic ink and modified the circuitry to complete a working device. IBM and E Ink will jointly deliver a paper describing the display prototype at the Society for Information Display Conference in San Jose, California in June 2001. E Ink Corporation, headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, was founded in 1997 to develop and commercialize the use of electronic ink. E Ink is a private corporation that includes among its investors and strategic partners Philips Electronics, Motorola, Inc., Lucent Technologies, Creavis GmbH, The Interpublic Group of Companies, Inc., Havas, The Hearst Corporation, Atlas Venture, Applied Technology and Solstice Capital.
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