Display aficionados, ready yourselves — SID Display Week 2012, the display industry’s largest show in North America, is right around the corner. We have been preparing for this important industry event and are looking forward to showing our latest in Boston!
I’ve met quite a few extraordinary people over the years, but just a few months ago I met an interesting and charismatic man whose story is as compelling as his vision is clear. Dr. Dae-Hun Sung, also known in Korea as “Dr. E-Book,” is the leader of the Kyobo eReader project for Kyobo Book Centre.
Each year at the beginning of January, technology enthusiasts clamor to be the first to touch, tweet, blog, gossip and play with the latest toys, devices and technology. The Consumer Electronics Show—or simply “CES” to the initiated—plays host to the world of consumer electronics. To the uninitiated, it’s pure chaos.
A few weeks ago, we proudly announced the world’s first color e-reader to feature mirasol display technology – the KYOBO eReader. We believe this announcement is the first step in changing consumer’s expectations about what an e-reader is; delivering color and interactive content, while maintaining the outdoor visibility and weeks of battery life to which they’ve become accustomed.
We just marked another important milestone for mirasol display technology. Less than twenty-four hours ago and many miles away from most of you, the world’s first e-reader to feature mirasol display technology – the Kyobo eReader – was unveiled in Seoul, South Korea.
We’ve discussed in this forum, on a number of occasions, the Biomimetic effort.
For the past several weeks, I’ve been teaching a class at the University of California, Berkeley, titled “How Would Nature Do That?” The course explores the emerging field of biomimicry and the ways in which nature-inspired innovation is driving technological change.
(Full disclosure: The class is being sponsored this semester by QMT, whose mirasol display technology was inspired by the way light reflects off a butterfly’s wings.)
The past number of months has resulted in an amazing array of new business ventures, manufacture ramping and capacity expansion for mirasol® displays and QMT. I’ve personally been involved in all of these, which should help explain my relative absence from blogging. I am excited now, however, to share with you some thoughts on our just-announced partnership with XinHua eStore that will result in the first mirasol display-enabled multimedia e-reader.
As the students of UC Berkeley converged back on campus this semester (Spring 2011), a new course taught by Tom McKeag titled, "How Would Nature Do That?" appeared in their elective offerings from the College of Natural Resources. The course is focused on biomimicry, the study of nature to find solutions that are typically both more resource efficient and environmentally sustainable than standard solutions.
For an insider’s viewpoint, we asked Paula DiPerna, author of a novel and non-fiction books, a strategic environmental and philanthropic policy advisor and an insider in the new era of digital publishing to offer her impressions on the recently completed Tools of Change for Publishing Conference. Opinions expressed here are her own, and we welcome the dialogue.
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