Digital signage flexible olcd brings functional and technical benefits to indoor and outdoor digital signage. Plastic logic is a company in flux, they have yet to secure a meaningful contract to utilize their epaper and are stuck in an endless loop of research and development. The plastic logic flexible transistor platform has now been industrially proven to be able to form active backplanes for lcd, oled, epd and other. Plastic logic germany epds offer huge advantages over conventional, glassbased epd being extremely robust and truly flexible. Flexenable was created from plastic logics people and its technology assets in cambridge, uk. See who you know at flexenable, leverage your professional network, and get hired. Why plastic logic failed despite the ebook boom gigaom. The plastic logic flexenable journey spun out of cambridge university plastic logic founded nov 2000 plastic logic process proven industrially 1.
The manufacturing plant in dresden, germany, which develops, manufactures and sells a range of flexible, electrophoretic displays, will operate independently under the name plastic logic germany using technology license agreements with flexenable. Plastic logic plans to make its ereader available in trials and pilots with partners. Plastic logic germany develops and manufactures electrophoretic displays epd, based on organic thinfilm transistor technology, in dresden, germany originally a spinoff company from the cavendish laboratory at the university of cambridge, the company was founded in 2000 by richard friend, henning sirringhaus and stuart evans and specialised in polymer transistors and plastic electronics. Sep 08, 2008 tools of change 2009 plastic logic duration. It has an easy gesturebased user interface and powerful software tools that will help business users to organize and manage their information. Whats more, plastic logic s device is as wide and long as a sheet of lettersized paper 8. Another interesting difference between this new flexible ebook reader. My focus has been on plastic organic electronic beginning my career at plastic logic in 2001, and moving on to flexenable early in 2015. Flexenables massive new wristband shows all that you.
Plastic electronics firm partners with merck on bendable. Plastic logic germany is the leader in the development and manufacture of flexible, glassfree electrophoretic displays, for smart cards, mobile devices, signage, wearables and more. Flexenable ltd flexenable limited develops, manufactures, and distributes plastic electronic products. Feb 09, 2009 plastic logic s reader may not be headed for mass consumption until 2010 though certain key customers should see it in 2h 2009, but at least were getting a bit of assurance that said dates. The company provides electrophoretic and flexible plastic display products. Flexenable is closely related to the cambridge university spinout plastic logic, and features many of the same executives and investors on its board of directors. Flexenable is driving the delivery of truly flexible electronics for wearables, new mobile applications and iot. The company offers plastic displays of various sizes and in both color and monochrome.
Available in a wide range of sizes, these epds are being used in smart cards, wearables, mobile devices, and signage. Plastic logic spins off screen tech arm, focuses on manufacturing. Our vision is to reach foldable and even stretchable displays using organic transistors since our transistors are themselves fundamentally flexible, and in combination with truly flexible. Jul 22, 2009 plastic logic is using eink displays, just like amazons kindle, sonys readers, irexs iliad, and nearly every other ebook reader. New award for plastic logic and isorgs sensor which promises to transform the way we interact with consumer devices 1 april 2014 business technology sensors, partnering, plastic electronics. Plastic logic in cambridge, england, which comprises the research and development activity has been renamed as flexenable ltd.
It integrates with the android os to allow you to easily view books and information on the e ink panel. Plastic logics spectacular rebirth business weekly. Plastic logic ereader to be used by detroit newspapers. Plastic logic is targeting its ereaders at business users. The company was spunoff from plastic logic in february 2015 to further develop the technology and license it for display makers flexenable has a track record of groundbreaking graphene innovation and industrialisation. Digital signage is a powerful tool for creating and distributing content with applications across multiple industries including retail, street furniture and transportation.
Flexenables massive new wristband shows all that you shouldn. British flexenable working based on kavendishsky laboratory in cambridge. Plastic logic will remain as an epd developer and producer based in dresden, germany while flexenable based in cambridge, uk will handle the otft backplane development and offer technology licenses to display makers in 2014 plastic logic in collaboration with novaled demonstrated a monochrome 4. Flexenable limited free company information from companies house including registered office address, filing history, accounts, annual return, officers, charges, business activity. Flexenable has been created from plastic logic s people and its technology assets in cambridge. Company plastic logic, history, the first devices, the russian investors on. By joining our free community today, you will have fewer ads, access to post topics, communicate privately with other members, respond to polls, upload content and access many. The plastic logic ebook reader features built in wifi and support for microsoft office documents and adobe pdf documents. I have significant technical and commercial experience, working with some of the worlds biggest brands and largest manufacturing and product companies globally, and managing the businesss strategic. And now the verge reports that at mwc this week flexenable has is showing off a screen you can wrap around your wrist but they havent come up with a reason why you would want to. Hello, i need plastic logic application to transfer data between pc and ebook reader. It will also carry out small order manufacturing of flexible circuits in cambridge. Plastic logic germany develops and manufactures glassfree, flexible, plastic electrophoretic displays epd, based on a. The most flexible, unbreakable, lightweight epaper displays.
This is plastic logic ebook by gizmodo on vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them. Plastic logic s top competitors are thinfilm, flexenable and pragmatic printing. Meanwhile plastic logic s manufacturing facility in dresden, germany will be spun out. Plastic logic gmbh company profile and news bloomberg. Routinely travelling to china taiwan japan korea to establish commercial opportunities, technology transfer, and collaborative manufacturing ventures for plastic logic s flexible otft am oled. Flexenable ltd company profile and news bloomberg markets. Plastic logic splits, forms flexenable eenews europe. Plastic logic of dresden, germany, which licenses flexenable s technology, develops and manufactures shatterproof, glassfree epds, or electrophoretic displays. The idea is to create a whole new device type for business professionals. Flexenable s awardwinning organic electronics platform and highperformance otft materials enable low cost, glassfree flexible displays, sensors and optics that can be conformed and shaped to almost any surface.
Flexenable has now demonstrated the worlds first plastic lcd with activematrix inplane switching ips. Like the kindle dx, its designed for reading newspapers, periodicals, business documents, textbooks, and pdf files, as well as ebooks and text files. Plastic logic has been around for almost twenty years and they have no. During that time raja software has repeatedly proven their value as a contributor to our product software. Sep 05, 2012 aside from a couple of trial projects, plastic logic still doesnt have any products on the market, but they continue to develop their plastic displays in both color and blackandwhite. This is a metoo device in a market thats becoming more crowded by the day. Plastic logics cambridge, uk, operation has been spun off to form flexenable. The plastic logic reader comes with supporting software that runs on windows xp, windows vista and mac os x. Flexenable and isorg present 1mp flexible image sensor. Flexenable s other demonstration at mwc 2016 was the same. Flexenable and merck take major step forward in plastic. Tweet share post on the surface, plastic logic had it all.
May 16, 2012 plastic logic quits the ereader business may 16, 2012 by michael kozlowski 3 comments cambridge uk based plastic logic has just confirmed it is getting out of the ereader business. Plastic logic unveils latest fully flexible all plastic amoled display more. Plastic logic limited 15 jun 2000 30 jan 2015 commtone limited 11 jan 2000 15 jun 2000. Based on plastic logics patent and tech portfolio, flexenable. Plastic logic germany develops and manufactures electrophoretic displays epd, based on. Plastic logic is a leading company in the field of advanced plastic electronics, printed polymer semiconductors, and ereader display technology.
The adobe reader is renamed adobe acrobat reader, its former name. Flexenable licenses its technology and supplies materials to display manufacturers. The new venture, called flexenable, will commercialise the plastic transistor technology developed at plastic logic in a range of highgrowth, connected markets such as smart cards, sensor systems, and display applications in mobile, wearables, and automotive. The online books page gives access to two million free books on the internet. Plastic logic, the otft backplane developer and epd producer has split into two companies.
Plastic logic announces content partners, open publishers. Using technology originating at cambridge university, plastic logic hk has exclusive access to the leading otft technology and. Plastic logic was best known for its repeated attempts to produce an ereader with a plastic backed eink screen, but as you can see in the following video flexenable is looking in a decidedly different direction. The company was spunoff from plastic logic in february 2015 to further develop the technology and license it for display makers in 2014 plastic logic demonstrated flexible amoled prototypes built on their otft backplanes. We work with display manufacturers, oems and tier 1 companies to bring these groundbreaking technologies to mass market applications. Plastic logic creates the company flexenable to develop the next flexible displays. Plastic logic competitors, revenue and employees owler. The plastic logic reader supports a full range of business document formats, such as microsoft word, excel and powerpoint, and adobe pdfs, as well as newspapers, periodicals and books. May 17, 2012 tweet share post on the surface, plastic logic had it all.
Flexenable was created from plastic logic s people and its technology assets in cambridge, uk. E ink shows some of their latest awesome demos including a 10. Its availability was announced by plastic logic on september 12, 2011. Plastic logic has been in and out of the news for months with its supposed kindlekilling ereader, but we really havent seen much other than prototype tech.
How to replace a clutch in your car or truck full diy guide duration. It will license the intellectual property it has created to display and sensor manufacturers. Flexenable limited overview free company information. Flexenable develops otftbased backplanes for flexible displays, suitable for both epd and oled technologies. Plastics get flexible for electronics nxtbook media. Another interesting difference between this new flexible ebook. Plastic logic gmbh develops and manufactures products and services for the plastic electronics. Russian investor rusnano is among them, while the board also boasts strong photonics expertise in the form of ceo chuck milligan and director henning sirringhaus. Flexenable and merck produce activematrix flexible plastic lcd a demonstrator liquid crystal display lcd mounted on a flexible plastic substrate, rather than glass, has been announced by cambridge company flexenable formerly plastic logic.
Flexenable shows off flexible amoled prototype in video the. Flexenable used to be plastic logic and isorg reveal the worlds first large area flexible fingerprint sensor on plastic designed for biometric applications. The new flexenable demo unit features a massive olcd o for organic. See plastic logic s revenue, employees, and funding info on owler, the worlds largest communitybased. Plastic logic 100 was an electronic textbook which was intended for educational use. Hopefully they can get on the map in the near future and start challenging e ink because plastic logics color displays look a lot better than e inks. It uses flexenable s otft array as well as liquid crystal lc and organic semiconductor. Plastic logic s strategy is to aim its product at business professionals, given the large screen and support for excel, word, powerpoint, and pdf. Beginning later that month, a shipment of devices was scheduled to be used on a trial basis in selected schools in russia which were planning to be pioneering the electronic textbook program. When the british company first emerged 12 years ago, it looked as if it could become a technology giant. The company also provides product prototyping services. Over the past year flexenable nee plastic logic has been showing off increasingly sophisticated flexible eink, lcd, and amoled screens. Flexenable has been created from plastic logic s people and its technology assets in cambridge, uk.
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