E Ink Invests in EPD Manufacturer for Wearable Tech Venture
E Ink announced a strategic investment in Plastic Logic HK, a fabless designer and manufacturer of flexible, glass-free electrophoretic displays (EPDs) targeted to wearables applications. The combination of E Ink’s “always-on” technology with flexible organic thin-film transistors (TFTs) is well-suited…
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to applications for wearable technology in clothing, said E Ink Tuesday. Organic TFT technology (OTFT) offers a lightweight, “robust” backplane solution, and E Ink’s color ePaper materials used with OTFT can be an attractive display for wearable device makers, said E Ink Holdings President Johnson Lee. Plastic Logic, recently formed by Russian private equity firm Rusnano, is the only company that can mass-produce OTFT backplanes for electronic paper displays, said CEO Tim Burne. The company will leverage E Ink’s supply chain and module facility.