Johnson Lee, president of E Ink Holdings (photo: E Ink)

E Ink and Fujitsu Semiconductor join forces


Companies / Markets

E Ink Holdings (Billerica, Massachusetts), a leader in electronic ink technology, and Fujitsu Semiconductor announced the joint development of a reference design board for battery-less ePaper tags. The solution adopts E Ink’s low voltage ePaper module and Fujitsu’s UHF FRAM RFID LSI, creating an ideal combination to enable battery-less ePaper tag applications.

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NFC technology from Thinfilm plays a major role in The Conran Shop’s collaboration with Pinterest (photo: Thinfilm)

Thinfilm partners with The Conran Shop and Pinterest to create immersive personalised shopping experience


Companies / Markets

The Conran Shop and Pinterest are collaborating to deliver an innovative, multi-faceted experience for consumers in celebration of the London Design Festival 2018, which will enable shoppers to engage with the inspiration they see in-store and take action with a personalised shopping journey.

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Qorvo’s general manager Cees Links (photo: Qorvo)

Qorvo and LEEDARSON launch multi-standard smart lighting solutions for IoT


Companies / Markets

Qorvo (Greensboro, North Carolina), a leading provider of innovative RF solutions, and LEEDARSON, a renowned lighting and IoT solutions company, have partnered to create a family of smart home lighting products that operate concurrently with Zigbee 3.0 and Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) 5.0 protocols – offering compatibility with the most popular IoT standards. The first of these solutions is a new LEEDARSON smart light bulb and light switch that integrates Qorvo’s QPG6095 system-on-chip (SoC), a multi-protocol/multi-channel smart home communications controller for ultra-low-power wireless applications.

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The ATBF technology was on display at Touch Taiwan 2018 (photo: BenQ)

BenQ Materials‘ Advance True Black Functional Film wins Gold Panel Award at Touch Taiwan


Exhibitions / Events

The Taiwanese company BenQ Materials has received the Gold Panel Award 2018 at Touch Taiwan for its Advance True Black Functional Film (ATBF) thanks to its outstanding performance in improving 8K display quality.

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Evonik will showcase its offering for 3D printing at the Fakuma tradeshow in Friedrichshafen, Germany, from 16 to 20 October (photo: Evonik)

Evonik develops PEBA powder for 3D printing


Products

Evonik has developed the world’s first flexible plastic material based on PEBA (polyether block amide) for use in 3D printing. The new high-performance powder stands out for its high elasticity and strength and is suitable for a variety of powder-based 3D printing technologies.

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