E Ink Turns to Home Design With Prism
Prism applies eReader technology to architectural design.
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The design company best known for its Kindle displays, E Ink, has unveiled a concept design product for modern homes and public spaces. It's called Prism, and it is likely to help E Ink towards its goal of becoming a design and materials company.
E Ink is the process of encapsulating pigments of color into microspheres and then coating the microspheres onto different surfaces, with electronic circuits that control each sphere. Prism takes the E Ink technology from black and white into the rainbow spectrum, with a range of colors and hues encapsulated in each sphere.
The company has been working with architects and designers for the past year to apply Prism to different materials for a range of design products. At CES 2015, E Ink showcased a wall of plexiglass tiles that rippled through a series of pinks and reds in octagonal shapes, mimicking the pattern on the plexiglass itself. E Ink also displayed a glass-top coffee table crafted by Galaxy Glass with a different revolving series of patterns in the same color scheme.
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According to the company, Prism will be used in places like hotel lobbies and airport terminals, where architects are looking for unique materials that do not feature the bright, eye-straining glow of LCDs or LEDs but still have dynamic capabilities. E Ink expects to have a public installation using Prism by the end of the year.
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