BILLERICA, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--E Ink Holdings, "E Ink" (8069.TW), the leading innovator of electronic ink technology, today announced it has been named a 2018 FLEXI Awards winner for Product Innovation by the FlexTech Alliance for DAZZLE, the world’s largest media façade enabled by flexible E Ink electrophoretic displays.
Unveiled in September 2017 at the San Diego International Airport’s new rental car center, DAZZLE is the first outdoor art installation to use E Ink PrismTM. Designed by Ueberall International, this remarkable technical and manufacturing achievement enhances visitors’ experience through more than 2,000 individual tiles that display custom, dynamic animations across the 1,600-foot long façade. The installation is visible to hundreds of thousands of airport visitors and motorists on the Interstate 5 Freeway and Pacific Coast Highway.
“E Ink has long been recognized as the leader of electrophoretic displays for electronic readers,” said Melissa Grupen-Shemansky, chief technology officer at FlexTech. “This award demonstrates the vast capabilities of ePaper, and DAZZLE is definitely a milestone for the company. We look forward to seeing the next architectural developments that E Ink creates.”
The durable, flexible and low-power properties of E Ink displays made this installation possible, as each module is powered solely by small flexible solar cells and the integrated display module is affixed to the façade with adhesive. No power cables were required on the façade, and each tile communicates with the other and with the network base via wireless routers nestled in nearby trees. Each Prism ePaper tile is a parallelogram and arranged in a pattern on the facade to create an overall dynamic visual effect, even when the pixels are not changing. The animations can evoke many sensations like water ripples, moving traffic, dancing snowflakes or shifting geometries.
“It is an honor to be recognized by the FlexTech Alliance for our continued work in helping to evolve the flexible and printed electronics industry,” said Michael McCreary, chief technology officer at E Ink. “DAZZLE is a testament that commercial, flexible, reflective displays have a place in architecture and design and we look forward to enabling many new architectural installations of E Ink Prism in the future including color.”
The FLEXI Award was presented to E Ink during the 17th Annual FLEX Conference on Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2018 in Monterey, Calif.
To learn more about E Ink Prism and the DAZZLE installation, visit http://www.eink.com/architecture.html
About E Ink Holdings
E Ink Holdings Inc. (8069.TWO), based on technology from MIT’s Media Lab, has transformed and defined the eReader market and is redefining the signage, architecture and design, mobile, wearable and retail markets with its ePaper technology, enabling a new multi-billion dollar market in less than 10 years. Its corporate philosophy aims to deliver revolutionary products, user experiences and environmental benefits through advanced technology development. This vision has led to its continuous investments in the field of ePaper displays as well as expanding the use of its technologies into a number of other markets and applications including smart packaging and fashion. Its Electrophoretic Display products make it the worldwide leader for ePaper. Its Fringe Field Switching (FFS) technologies are a standard for high-end LCD displays and have been licensed to all major liquid crystal display makers in the world. Listed in Taiwan's Taipei Exchange (TPEx) and the Luxembourg market, E Ink Holdings is now the world's largest supplier of ePaper displays. For more information please visit www.eink.com.
