The Global Award of ePaper Product Innovation

(First Launched: 2026) : SEEKINK 3D Shaped Color-Changing ePaper Mask, a World First

Tue, 10 Nov 2026 16:10:07 +0800

January 2026, Las Vegas. At the CES 2026 booth of Xintai Technology, a crowd of visitors gathers around a mask in amazement — there are no LED beads on it and no LCD backlight, yet it slowly shifts through six colors: red, yellow, blue, green, black and white, with patterns flowing like breathing. This is not magic. It is a bold footnote written into wearable fashion with ePaper technology by a company from Ji'an, Jiangxi, China — Xintai Technology. It was the first public appearance of this product on the international stage as a "world first".

I. An Idea Born at a Masquerade

The story begins with what might be called the ePaper industry's midlife crisis.

In 2025 global ePaper module shipments soared to 580 million units, up 87.8% year on year, but 95.4% of them were electronic shelf labels (ESLs) — the small price tags clipped to supermarket shelf edges. Walmart alone plans to deploy about 450 million units by the end of 2026. Behind the booming numbers, one worry lingers: must ePaper's imagination be confined to the shelf?

In Ji'an, Jiangxi, the engineers at Xintai Technology were thinking about the same question. A company under Holitech Technology, Xintai reached an average monthly capacity of 20 million ePaper modules in 2026, ranking among the global top three, and holds more than 300 patents. Yet it kept looking for a chance to break out of its circle — to take ePaper from the B2B world to consumers, from an industrial part to a consumer product, from a shelf label to a fashion item.

A mask at a traditional masquerade is static: one mask can only present one expression. What if ePaper could make a mask that changes its face, letting the wearer switch colors and patterns throughout the evening with mood, music and occasion? Is that not the perfect vehicle for ePaper to step off the shelf?

That idea eventually gave birth to the world's first 3D shaped color-changing ePaper mask.

II. Putting ePaper onto a Curved Surface

The idea is romantic; the engineering is hardcore. To turn a flat sheet of ePaper into a 3D curved mask that fits a human face, the engineers at Xintai had to clear three technical hurdles.

Hurdle one: flexible lamination

The core display material of the mask is the Prism 3S color-changing ePaper film from E Ink Holdings (EIH). This is a segmented display technology that is itself flexible and bendable, and can be combined with various curved surfaces and shaped at will. But the curvature of a human face is far more complex than a refrigerator door or a car hood — forehead, cheekbones and the bridge of the nose each rise and fall differently. The engineers made the film ultra-thin and flexible and paired it with precision shaped cutting so that the ePaper film could fit the mask body like a second skin.

Hurdle two: shaped structures and cut-outs

Prism 3S is segmented ePaper: each segment corresponds to one driving line and needs no thin-film transistor (TFT) backplane, so it can be cut into circles, triangles and irregular shapes. Xintai used this characteristic to design the mask as an irregular structure with complex openwork patterns — streamlined lines around the eyes, scrolling plant motifs on the cheeks, a symmetrical totem on the forehead. Every element is an independent segment that can be driven separately and combined in different ways.

Hurdle three: dynamic six-color transitions

Inside Prism 3S

Microcup structure: the film consists of millions of microcups, each about the diameter of a human hair, containing four kinds of charged particles suspended in a transparent fluid.
Particle drive: red and blue particles carry a positive charge, yellow and white particles carry a negative charge; applying electric fields in different directions moves the corresponding particles to the top of the microcup to show the target color.
Six-color display: white, red, yellow, black, blue and green, of which white, red and yellow are primary colors and black, blue and green are mixed colors.
Bistable: power is consumed only while switching the image; once the color change is complete it is maintained at zero power, so a single coin cell can last an entire party.
Reflective display: it does not emit light but forms images by reflecting ambient light, presenting a calm paper-like texture under candlelight and warm light.

By programmatically editing color sequences and combining them with pattern design, the mask can achieve gradient flows, color flashes, pattern carousels and other dynamic effects. Imagine this: the mask is a mysterious black on arrival, shifts into golden ripples during cocktails, and switches to rhythmic red-and-blue patterns when the dance music starts — a whole evening of face-changing, controlled by the wearer with one tap in a phone app.

Six colors: White, Red, Yellow, Black, Blue and Green.

III. Las Vegas Debut: A World First Goes Public

On January 6, 2026, Xintai Technology stepped onto the stage of CES, the world's largest consumer electronics show, for the first time. As a professional ePaper module manufacturing service provider, Xintai presented a group of forward-looking ePaper applications, but the most eye-catching was the 3D shaped color-changing ePaper mask described as a world first.

At the CES booth, the reaction to the mask exceeded expectations. A creative director from a fashion brand lingered in front of the display and said he saw huge room for ePaper in IP derivatives and cross-brand collaborations — unlike the cyberpunk coldness of LED masks, the reflective display of an ePaper mask takes on a quality like a living mural under warm light, technological yet classical, and very well suited to limited editions from high-end brands.

Xintai also outlined its next steps at CES: based on E Ink Prism technology, the company is working with partners to explore color-changing masks in fashion wearables, cross-brand collaborations and IP derivatives. Its technology comes from the same line as the much-noticed color-changing nail solution, and is expected to form a complete wearable color-changing product line from fingertips to face. A month later, the mask will cross the Atlantic and appear again at ISE 2026 in Barcelona, continuing this color-changing magic for European audiences.

IV. The Industrial Map Behind One Mask

The mask looks like a creative product, but behind it lies a decade of deep cultivation in ePaper by Xintai Technology.

300+
ePaper-related patents

20 million
modules per month in capacity

Top 3
global ePaper module shipments

In the first quarter of 2026, Xintai's combined domestic and overseas ePaper module shipments exceeded 80 million units. The Ji'an base focuses on R&D, high-end color modules and domestic customized orders, while the Vietnam base handles large overseas orders; working together, the two sites reach an average monthly shipment capacity of 20 million units. In April 2026, a 140-mu modern smart campus in Jizhou District, Ji'an, officially came into use, further linking the upstream and downstream industry chain.

The deeper layout is on the ecosystem side. Together with the global ePaper leader E Ink Holdings (EIH) and the panel giant BOE, Xintai co-founded the ePaper Industry Alliance (EPIA), which brings together about 200 companies. It also leads and participates in the formulation of one national standard and 17 group standards, upgrading from a pure module maker to one of the makers of industry rules.

In this map, the color-changing mask is not a profit cow but a technology calling card and a scenario probe. It proves to the world that ePaper can do more than price tags and bus stop signs: it can walk a runway, enter a party and become part of people's bodies. This leap from B2B to consumer is the story Xintai really wants to tell.

V. One Mask, Unlimited Possibilities

Masquerades and theme parties. Multiple scenes in one night: mysterious black on arrival, golden ripples at the cocktail hour, red-and-blue rhythm on the dance floor. Wearers preset color sequences in a phone app and the mask changes face with the beat.

Theme parks and immersive performances. Custom character masks for immersive theaters and theme parks: NPC masks can change color at plot points, strengthening the narrative tension and the sense of immersion.

Brand collaborations and IP derivatives. Limited-edition masks with fashion brands and animation IPs, with patterns and color schemes customized programmatically, making every mask a unique digital collectible.

The starting point of wearable skin. The mask is the starting point of wearable ePaper. In the future, from color-changing nails to smart clothing — such as the ink-based heart-rate-sensing color-changing dress developed by E Ink with a textile research institute — ePaper skin will cover more parts of the body.

Epilogue: ePaper's Second Life

Back to that booth in Las Vegas. When a visitor raises a phone to capture the moment the mask changes color, what is captured is not just a product, but a directional turn of the ePaper industry.

From the electrophoretic display concept in a MIT laboratory in the 1970s, to the black-and-white E Ink screen on Kindle readers, to the electronic shelf labels in supermarkets — ePaper has spent half a century completing the journey from laboratory to shopping mall. The color-changing mask Xintai released at CES 2026 is opening ePaper's second life: off the shelf, onto the human face, into every moment that calls for color and individual expression.

As the idea Xintai conveyed at CES suggests, ePaper is not only about display; it is becoming a design material, a medium that can bring a still surface to life. And this mask is the first face of that change to be seen by the world. From its debut in Las Vegas to its next chapter in Barcelona, this face is walking step by step onto a broader stage.

At the next masquerade, if you see someone wearing a mask whose patterns flow slowly in the candlelight — do not be surprised. That is not magic; it is a piece of ePaper from Ji'an, Jiangxi, writing its second life.

(First Launched: 2026) : MOBEN MB-1 ePaper AI Q&A Device for Young Learners

Tue, 10 Nov 2026 16:02:45 +0800

MOBEN · PRODUCT ORIGIN STORY

When a Question First Appears

From a follow-up question while AI was writing code
to a pure entry point handed to young people

Making every spark of curiosity easier to begin.

Shenzhen Jianshan Information Technology Co., Ltd.

We only understood later that the story of MOBEN MB-1 did not start with an education hardware plan, nor with the question of what else could be added to the market. It started with an entirely ordinary moment at work: a question had just surfaced in the mind, and there was no sufficiently handy, sufficiently quiet place to catch it.

1. The Question Beside the Code Window

Xia, the team member in charge of AI technology and long-term direction — known in the team as Brother Xia — had long since brought AI into real coding work. AI can generate a program, explain an error, and break a vague requirement into steps. It speeds development up, yet at the same time it creates a new working state: the amount a person has to learn does not shrink; it becomes denser.

When AI hands over an unfamiliar framework, a new protocol or a parameter never seen before, a genuinely responsible developer cannot simply paste the code in. They need to know why it is written that way, which part may fail, and what happens in another environment. Writing code and learning new knowledge thus become interwoven. Questions rarely arrive during scheduled learning time; they appear when the hands are on the keyboard and the thinking is already moving forward.

The options at that moment were not ideal. One could leave the current window to search, pick up a phone and open an AI app, or write the question down and deal with it once the work paused. The first two interrupt the train of thought; the third often means the question is simply forgotten. A phone can of course do anything, but when a person only wants to ask one question, notifications, messages, short videos and endless feeds arrive with it. A clear act of inquiry is easily carried away by a stronger attention mechanism.

Xia's first thought was in fact very plain: there should be something close at hand. When a question appears, you should not have to leave what you are doing, unlock a phone, find an app and tidy up keywords — you should just pick it up, say the question in your mind, and let the answer arrive quickly.

That was not a complete product definition, but it already contained the most important seed of what followed: AI's capabilities can be complex, but the action of reaching AI should be simple enough.

AI's capabilities can be complex, but the act of reaching AI should be simple enough.

2. Serve a Question First, Not Define a Group of People First

In the earliest concept we did not know who would end up using MB-1 most frequently. We did not decide at the outset to "build a learning machine for children", nor did we draw up a standard user profile by age, occupation or spending level. We only knew that questions arise at work, while reading, while walking, eating, commuting and before sleep; people want an AI they can use at any time, without every question being surrounded by complicated devices and surplus information.

So the product did not serve a category of people first; it served a kind of moment — the moment a question first appears.

Reasoning backwards from that moment, the interaction gradually became clear: pick up the device, press and hold the central voice key, state the question, release it, and read the answer on the screen; if the content is long, turn pages with the left and right keys; if it is still not fully understood, keep asking. The whole process requires no learning of complex menus, and no rewriting of natural language into search-box keywords beforehand.

We summarized this path as "press, speak, read". Three actions look few, but few does not mean simple or rough. On the contrary, every step removed means that hardware, network, speech recognition, cloud models and the display must cooperate more tightly behind the scenes. Users should not see that complexity; they only need to feel that their question has somewhere to go.

3. A Product Is Also a Series of Deliberate Refusals

As the product took shape, many people gave us natural and very reasonable suggestions. Some said that since we were using an E Ink display, why not add e-books as well? Some said that since it can hear users' questions, why not add a speaker so AI can answer in voice? Others hoped it would have more apps and a richer interface, ideally able to carry every kind of content.

All of these suggestions could have lengthened the feature list, and could have made the product easier to place in a familiar category. But we came to realize more and more that a product's character is decided not only by what it has, but also by what it refuses.

If e-books were added, the E Ink display would easily become a bookshelf, a library and an entry point for content consumption. When users pick up the device, what faces them might no longer be their own question, but content someone else has already prepared. E-books certainly have value, but MB-1 wanted to protect something else: giving an unorganized, unclassified question the right to be expressed first. So we chose to let the screen serve answering, page turning and re-reading first, rather than turning the product into yet another reader.

The same reasoning applies to the speaker. A voice answer sounds more complete and fits the popular imagination of a "smart device" better, but sound occupies space, affects the people nearby, and disappears once spoken. Text can stop. Users can linger a few seconds on a sentence they do not understand, go back a page, or carry a single word into a follow-up question. So we made a deliberately asymmetric and very clear design choice: people express with voice, AI answers with text. Voice sends the question out; ink leaves the answer behind.

No speaker does not mean we think little of interaction; no e-books does not mean we think little of content. Precisely because we value them, we are willing to keep a clear enough boundary for "quiet questioning, focused reading, continued asking". Fewer features are not a gap in the product; they are the space left for attention.

Voice sends the question out; ink leaves the answer behind.

4. The E Ink Display Is Not Decoration but a Product Stance

MB-1 finally adopts a 3.97-inch E Ink display with 480 × 800 resolution. It does not have the vividness of a color emissive screen, nor is it suited to holding users with continuous animation. The way an E Ink display refreshes even reminds people: this is not a screen meant for endless swiping.

These seemingly limiting characteristics actually helped the product complete its own statement. Once the question is spoken, the answer lands on the screen as text; the page does not jump away by itself, and no next piece of content competes for attention. When to turn the page and when to keep asking is decided by the user. Display technology is no longer just a specification but a form of behavior design: the device does not urge you to consume more; it waits for you to finish this page.

The physical keys play the same role. The central voice key is like a door handle, and the left and right keys are responsible only for the necessary movement. Support for 4G and Wi-Fi is there so that this door can be opened in more situations; a light, portable form is there so that it can really be at hand rather than always left in a fixed spot on a desk.

We did not want to make MB-1 a shrunken phone. A phone pursues as many possibilities as possible; MB-1 pursues making one possibility natural enough: when you want to know why, you can speak immediately.

3.97-inch
E Ink display

480 × 800
resolution

PRESS
physical voice key

4G + Wi-Fi
standalone connectivity

Type-C
charging port

5. After Beta Testing, the Product Found People We Had Not Planned For

After the product entered a longer phase of user beta testing, our earlier image of the user began to change. The initial drive came from adults' work and life, from Xia's need for immediate learning while coding with AI. But the people who picked it up most often were increasingly found among younger users — especially students from the third grade upwards who can already express questions independently and are at the stage where curiosity grows fastest.

Their questions do not queue up according to a subject syllabus. A sticking point in homework may lead on to the principle behind a concept; an animal in a book may turn to habitat, climate and evolution; a cloud outside the window may prompt a question about weather, or about light, wind and the water cycle. To adults these questions are sometimes too sudden, too fragmented, even hard to answer fully on the spot; to children they are real entry points for understanding the world.

We also saw the same contradiction in schools and at home: adults want children to encounter AI and learn how to ask questions of this era's new tools, yet they are reluctant to hand a phone stuffed with entertainment, social media and information feeds directly to a child. A principal put this dilemma clearly during a conversation — students must not miss the AI era, but the way they enter it has to match their stage of growth.

This made us understand the value of MB-1 again. It is not meant to replace all the functions of a phone, but to give children who do not have a phone — and do not need the full phone ecosystem — another path to AI. The path is narrower, and therefore clearer; it can do less, and therefore puts asking first.

The product did not find its positioning in a meeting room in one go. It was the repeated real use during beta testing that showed us: the trouble first solved for work scenarios takes on a deeper meaning among young people. An adult needs it so as not to interrupt work; a child may need it so that curiosity is not interrupted when no one answers.

An adult needs it so as not to interrupt work; a child may need it so that curiosity is not interrupted.

6. Purity Is Not About Making the World Smaller

We often describe MB-1 as a "pure AI entry point". Purity here does not mean shutting a child inside an over-simplified world, nor does it mean that every answer AI gives is naturally correct. Generative AI can make mistakes, omit context, and state uncertain content too confidently. A truly responsible product cannot package "fast answers" as "absolute truth".

So we prefer to understand safety as a set of boundaries that are continuously built: age-appropriate content and answering styles, necessary parental management, clear usage time and service status, as few irrelevant entry points as possible, and serious treatment of privacy, data and the rights of minors. Parents and teachers are not people replaced by AI; they are important companions who help children verify answers, build judgment and understand boundaries.

A good AI experience should also not let children pursue only ready-made answers. It should encourage them to keep asking why, to take conclusions back to the process, and to turn "I don't know" into a direction worth exploring. An answer can be a starting point, but it should not become the end of thinking. We hope that while using MB-1, children gradually learn to express questions more clearly, compare different explanations, verify important information, and, when necessary, seek confirmation from teachers, parents and the real world.

That is exactly where purity lies: not deciding for the child what to believe, but reducing the distractions unrelated to learning, so that more attention is left for the question itself.

7. Handing This Era's Gift to Those Who Are Growing Up

Looking back, the story of MB-1 has two images that seem very far apart. In the first, Xia sits in front of the code window while AI generates a program, and a question about new knowledge suddenly appears. In the second, a young student picks up a palm-sized device, holds down the key, speaks a doubt about the world, and then looks down to read the answer on the E Ink screen.

What connects these two images is not a profession and not a subject, but the same ability: curiosity.

We are glad that a daily annoyance the team first solved for itself has become a new entry point for young people to reach AI. And we are increasingly firm about our mission: to make the best possible use of AI, the most valuable tool of this era, and hand it to young people who are growing vigorously, in a way that feels more natural, has clearer boundaries and offers a safer environment.

We do not want to hand them yet another screen full of notifications, content and temptation, nor to fill the time that should be left for observation, thinking and imagination with an ever-longer feature list. What we want to deliver is a small door: pick it up, hold the key, speak the question; the answer appears in ink, and the world unfolds again from that question.

Perhaps a child asks about a homework problem today, an insect tomorrow, and the day after about the universe, machines, music or a story they want to write. No one can dictate in advance where these questions will lead. Nor should AI decide for them who to become. All we can do is make every genuine question easier to catch, let every answer lead naturally to the next question, let interests become clear through continued exploration, and let talent gradually take shape in one "why" after another.

MB-1 does not want to be the whole digital world of young people. It only wants to hold on to that instant when a question first appears.

Speak, and the answer comes; ink, and it becomes a page.

Make questions easier to begin, let exploration continue, and let talent show its outline in question after question.

Notes on Sources and Background

This article is based on team interviews, existing MOBEN product materials, user beta testing and classroom discussion materials. To protect user privacy, the text contains no identifiable names, schools or individual data of minors; the learning scenarios in the narrative summarize many kinds of real needs and do not represent a verbatim record of any single user. AI-generated content still needs verification, and the product does not replace the judgment of teachers, parents or professionals.

Public background materials include: the MOBEN official website and public product coverage; the Guidelines for the Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence by Primary and Secondary School Students (2025 edition) issued under the Ministry of Education's basic education teaching guidance committee; the Regulations on the Protection of Minors on the Internet; UNICEF's Guidance on AI and Children 3.0; UNESCO's Guidance for Generative AI in Education and Research; E Ink official technology notes; and Microsoft Research work on conversational AI programming workflows. These materials serve to explain the background of the era and the design principles; they do not constitute any additional promise about specific product performance.

References

• MOBEN official website: https://moben.cn/

• MOBEN public product coverage: https://www.jinantimes.com.cn/news-288-5269234.html

• Guidelines for the Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence by Primary and Secondary School Students (2025 edition): https://jyj.linxia.gov.cn/jyj/xxgk/fdzdgknr/zcwj/GJZC/art/2025/art_ec21649bfa774fb28ca73d6c6e287e4c.html

• Regulations on the Protection of Minors on the Internet: https://www.miit.gov.cn/jgsj/zfs/xzfg/art/2023/art_60743e5d87b349099d24fdd54d77d8ab.html

• UNICEF, Guidance on AI and Children: https://www.unicef.org/innocenti/reports/policy-guidance-ai-children

• UNESCO, Guidance for Generative AI in Education and Research: https://www.unesco.org/en/articles/guidance-generative-ai-education-and-research

• E Ink technology notes: https://www.eink.com/tech/detail/Benefits

• Microsoft Research, conversational AI programming: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/vibe-coding-programming-through-conversation-with-artificial-intelligence/

(First Launched: 2026) Detachable ePaper dual screen mobile phone

Tue, 10 Nov 2026 15:39:39 +0800

I. Company Profile

Qingdao Hisense Communications Co., Ltd. formed its team in 2000 and was founded in 2001; in 2005 it set up its wholly owned subsidiary, Qingdao Hisense Mobile Communications Technology Co., Ltd. With a strong R&D team, by 2025 the company held 3,716 mobile communication terminal patents, 78 PCT international patents, 48 national, provincial and municipal science and technology projects, and 39 provincial and municipal science and technology awards. At the very beginning of its establishment the company built a strategic partnership with Qualcomm, and in 2004 it reached strategic cooperation with Unisoc, becoming one of its α customers. In 2001 it launched China's first CDMA color-screen phone, the C201, and in 2006 it developed the D806, then the world's thinnest CG dual-mode dual-standby handset.

II. R&D Capabilities

Hisense Communications has the complete development capability for mobile communication terminals: independent RF antenna development, whole-device ruggedized design, video and image processing, audio design, information security design, ultra-long battery endurance, CMF design and software customization.

The company also works with complete laboratory facilities. Its laboratory center comprises eight specialized laboratories — RF, OTA, audio, imaging, electrical performance, environmental, reliability and software stability — covering every aspect of communication technology and products. They support the full development and testing flow, from hardware components, complete devices and software protocol interoperability to structural reliability and product packaging tests, and, backed by its own development team, the company can provide customers with domestic network access, operator testing and export certification pre-testing.

III. A Look Back at Hisense E Ink Phones

As early as 2015 we realized that smartphones were entering a phase of fully homogenized competition: LCD and OLED screens commonly suffer from blue light and flicker, while E Ink displays offer paper-like eye comfort, sunlight readability and extremely low power consumption for static images. Yet a pure E Ink device cannot meet everyday needs for communication, video and color interaction.

Drawing on its strong R&D capability, the company began to build up and explore a dual-screen phone concept in 2016 — a color main screen plus an E Ink second screen. One phone, two display systems: the regular color screen on the front covers social networking, video and photography, while the E Ink screen on the back carries fragmented reading, news browsing and focus mode. The idea completed hardware stacking and dual-screen driver system pre-research in 2016 and entered mass production in 2017, making Hisense the first manufacturer in China to mass-produce a dual-sided smartphone with both a color screen and an E Ink screen.

3.1 The industry pioneer: A2 / A2 Pro

1. In February 2017 Hisense officially launched the dual-screen phone A2, which had already been previewed at CES 2017 and MWC 2017.

Display: 5.5-inch FHD AMOLED color screen on the front, plus a 5.2-inch E Ink display without backlight on the back.
Platform: Snapdragon 430, 3,090mAh battery, 2.5D glass on both sides.

Signature innovation: it was the first mass-produced model in the world to achieve dual-sided touch, dual-sided call answering and dual-sided fingerprint recognition. Flipping the phone moves the picture to the E Ink screen, whose static display draws almost no power — ideal for reading novels and news over long periods.

2. At the end of 2017 the product was upgraded to the Hisense A2 Pro, which optimized memory and system scheduling, refined the dual-screen switching logic and fixed E Ink app compatibility issues, laying a solid foundation for Hisense's dual-screen technology.

Industry significance: the A2 series established Hisense's product paradigm of a color screen plus an E Ink screen and proved that a phone need not be a single-sided full-screen slab, opening up a new category that combines a phone and a portable reader.

3.2 2018–2019: more mature dual-screen solutions, the Hisense A6 / A6L

1. In November 2018 Hisense launched the dual-screen phone A6, the world's first dual-screen phone with a front-lit E Ink display.

Display upgrade: a 6.01-inch full-screen AMOLED on the front and a 5.61-inch Carta E Ink display with parallel soft front light on the back. The device historically solved the A2's inability to be read at night, with 256-level linear dimming.

Hardware: Snapdragon 660, 6GB of memory as standard, a dedicated Ink Smart key for one-touch switching to E Ink mode, screenshots and reading launch, and dual-sided face unlock.

Positioning line: two-sided vision, eye-friendly reading.

2. In 2019 the upgraded Hisense A6L went on sale. The A6L was an extended iteration of the dual-screen flagship, with the E Ink screen size adjusted once more, a refined power strategy and an improved Android dual-screen driver framework. It was also an important watershed: the last generation of Hisense's traditional one-piece front-and-back dual-screen phones.

The one-piece front-and-back dual-screen approach had inherent drawbacks: a thicker body, limited battery capacity and high structural yield cost. For these reasons the company opened up two routes in parallel:

• Route 1: one-piece dual screen (the A-series dual screen), with iteration slowed for a period.
• Route 2: single-sided pure E Ink reading phones, aimed at low-vision users and reading enthusiasts, with a simplified structure and long battery life as the core proposition.

3.3 2019: the A5 / A7 / A9 line turns to single E Ink reading phones

1. The Hisense A5, launched in 2019, was the first single-sided pure E Ink phone. The front color screen was removed, leaving a single E Ink panel; positioned as an entry-level secondary reading phone, it validated market demand for pure E Ink phones.

2. In 2020 the first 5G E Ink phone, the Hisense A7 / A7CC, went on sale with a 6.7-inch large screen, offering both black-and-white and color E Ink (CC) versions and powered by the Unisoc T7510 5G chip, targeting low-vision users and the mobile reading market.

3. In 2022 came the flagship Hisense A9, with a 6.1-inch 300PPI high-definition E Ink display, dual-color warm and cool front light and HiFi audio. Highly mature, it became a market benchmark for years. During this period the company did not stop its dual-screen architecture research; it only paused mass production of one-piece front-and-back dual-screen models while continuing to iterate E Ink drivers and multi-display coordination algorithms.

IV. 2026: Back to the Idea, Upgraded — the Hisense A10 Modular Dual Screen

After several years, the company has once again brought the dual-screen design to life. The classic idea of an E Ink screen plus a color screen abandons the previous one-piece front-and-back structure and is upgraded into a magnetically attachable, detachable modular display solution: the all-new 5G E Ink phone, the Hisense A10.

The front of the Hisense A10 carries a 6.13-inch E Ink Carta 1300 panel with 300PPI resolution — retina level, and among the flagship display panels in today's E Ink industry. The device integrates the industry-leading E Ink T2000 hardware decoding chip, optimizing eye comfort at the architectural level, and raises the E Ink refresh rate to 30Hz, greatly improving page-turning smoothness.

The biggest innovation is the detachable secondary screen module: the industry's first magnetically attachable modular secondary screen using high-speed DP transmission. The module carries a 4.96-inch LCD screen with 720 × 1280 resolution. Users can attach or detach the color module as needed, switching freely between a pure E Ink focus-reading mode and a color multimedia interaction mode.

The design follows a minimalist geometric aesthetic that balances portability and quality. The body is only 8.4mm thick and 7.8cm wide, with total weight kept at 190g.

At its core is a 4nm Qualcomm QCM6690 industrial-grade chip clocked at up to 2.9GHz, balancing high performance with low power consumption. It runs the open Android 16 system, supports 5G across all networks and Wi-Fi 6 for seamless high-speed connectivity, and is one of the few phones on the market that supports eSIM.

The A10 also offers a range of AI applications, including voice meetings with real-time speech transcription and AI speaker separation to produce meeting minutes, simultaneous interpretation, real-time translation and a work assistant.

Product Specifications

(Launched 2026) ePaper Color-Changing Nails

Mon, 27 Jul 2026 15:59:25 +0800

I. Over a Decade of Technology Development

According to TechCrunch, iPolish's core technology has been "in development for over a decade." The foundation is a novel material called "electrophoretic nanopolymers" — founder Troy Fohrman says the iPolish team invented a completely new variant of this material and built 23 patents around it.

Electrophoretic display technology is not a new concept — it is widely used in E Ink screens of e-readers like the Kindle. The principle is to control the arrangement of charged color particles through an electric field, thereby changing the display color. iPolish's innovation lies in transplanting this technology, originally applied to rigid flat screens, onto soft, curved, and small acrylic nail surfaces. According to multiple media reports, a layer of flexible film containing charged color particles is embedded inside the nail, and an external device applies an electric field to trigger particle rearrangement, achieving color switching.

A key feature of this technology is "bistability" — power is only needed briefly during color switching; once the color is set, the nail can maintain its current color indefinitely without any battery. According to Cosmetics Business, the nail itself contains no battery and is waterproof, with extremely low energy requirements, only triggered briefly during state switching.

II. From Personal Investment to Corporate Operations

In 2023, Troy Fohrman officially established iPolish. According to TechCrunch, the company was initially self-funded by Fohrman and later received seed funding. The team consists of seven people.

The company is headquartered in Florida, USA. According to business registry records, iPolish also registered "iPolish Technology Limited" in Hong Kong, China in February 2024 as a private company limited by shares, currently still in active registration status. This indicates the company is building its international business; its official FAQ lists the first sales markets including China, the United States, Japan, South Korea, the European Union, and over 20 other countries and regions.

III. CES 2026: From Lab to Public

In January 2026, iPolish made its first public appearance at CES 2026 in Las Vegas. This was a key milestone for the product's transition from lab to consumer. According to multiple media reports, Engadget conducted hands-on testing on-site, confirming the color-changing function works — the user charges the Magic Wand, connects it to a phone, selects a color in the App, inserts the nail tip into the wand's slot, and waits about five seconds to complete the color switch for a single nail.

According to Taiwanese media talkacemedia, the iPolish demo area at CES had long queues, with many testers saying "it's not just seeing colors change, it's like seeing the future of beauty." German tech media heise online compared the product to a scene from the 1990 sci-fi film "Total Recall," where a receptionist changes nail color by sweeping a pen over her nails.

According to TechCrunch, iPolish opened pre-orders during CES. The starter kit is priced at $95, containing 24 nails (12 standard sizes), Magic Wand, USB-C charging cable, Hyper Glue, Quick Dry Top Coat, nail file, cuticle tool, and a full set of accessories. Refills are $6.50 for two nails, and a full replacement set is $32.50. The product comes in two nail shapes: Ballerina (shorter) and Squoval (longer). Since the nails contain integrated electronic components, they cannot be filed or reshaped, as this would damage the circuitry.

IV. Technical Details and Product Features

According to the official FAQ and multiple media reports, the iPolish system consists of three core components:

First, digital press-on acrylic nails
Acrylic material with embedded electrophoretic nanopolymer film, used the same way as ordinary press-on nails but capable of repeated color changes during wear. The nails feature a "raised topcoat gloss" finish; according to Carsha, at arm's length it is nearly impossible to tell it is an electronic device, with an appearance close to high-end salon-quality acrylic nails.

Second, iPolish App
Available for iOS and Android, offering over 300 preset colors (some media reports say 400). Users can create "curated palettes" and sync nail colors by season, mood, or fashion trends. The company says future software updates may support simple patterns, gradients, or French manicures, but the launch version focuses on solid colors to ensure the best visual effect.

Third, Magic Wand
A pocket-sized device that receives color data from the phone App via Bluetooth. The user slides the nail tip into the wand's slot, and about five seconds of painless "charging" rearranges the particles to complete the color change. The wand itself needs to be charged via USB-C.

According to Cosmetics Business, iPolish nails are currently not reusable and typically last about 14 days of wear, requiring normal replacement as the nail grows. The manufacturer offers a 7-day continuous use warranty. The product is positioned as zero chemical solvents, zero acetone, no plasticizers, no preservatives, and cruelty-free.

V. A Bigger Vision

According to TechCrunch, Troy Fohrman says iPolish's goals extend beyond nails — "the company ultimately plans to extend this technology to other cosmetics fields." The official FAQ also states: "This is just the beginning; we have more coming soon."

As of July 2026, iPolish's products are expected to begin shipping in June 2026, with pre-orders open in over 20 countries and regions worldwide. From over a decade of technology development, to 23 patents, to the public debut at CES 2026, to the upcoming official shipment — iPolish is attempting to transform nail art from a chemical coating process into a phone-driven digital wearable experience. Whether this attempt will succeed remains to be tested by the market.

ePaper Calendar Photo Frame

Mon, 27 Jul 2026 15:44:44 +0800

In this era of screen overload and information excess, our lives are filled with countless sources of light.

We are awakened in the morning by the harsh glare of phone screens, occupied during work by the flickering of computer monitors, and consumed during rest by the scrolling of short videos. Every day we face dozens of glowing screens — blue light, flickering, pop-up notifications, and algorithmic feeds constantly competing for our attention, fracturing our focus, and disrupting our life rhythm.

Technology has made life faster, but also more restless and fragmented.

Without knowing when, we gradually lost our sense of "time."

We no longer tear calendar pages, no longer observe solar terms, no longer feel the changing of seasons. Our photos number in the tens of thousands but all sleep in cloud storage, never truly "displayed"; our schedules are packed, yet we are always rushing, passively busy; our desks grow more refined, yet always lack a quiet, gentle companion that can heal daily life.

This is why we created the E Ink electronic calendar photo frame.

We wanted to make a different kind of smart product.

It does not glow, does not disturb, does not clamor, does not push notifications, does not create anxiety.

It does not pursue flashy effects, does not pile on redundant features, does not manufacture useless technology.

It just wants to do one of the most simple, gentle things: help modern people reclaim the ritual of life, make time visible, and let beauty endure.

Part One: Why We Insist on a "Non-Glowing Screen"

The vast majority of smart desk ornaments, electronic photo frames, and smart calendars on the market all use glowing color screens.

They have vivid colors, glaring brightness, and flashy animations — impressive at first glance, but extremely draining on vision and energy over long-term use.

Modern people's eyes are already overburdened.

Students suffer from excessive eye strain; office workers experience chronic visual fatigue; adults suffer from insomnia and anxiety; children experience declining vision from prolonged blue light exposure. We live in light pollution every day, yet few realize: truly advanced technology is not about infinite brightness, but about ultimate quietness.

E Ink display technology is currently the only display technology that approaches paper reading — the most eye-friendly and most natural to human vision.

It replicates the diffuse reflection imaging principle of paper, relying on natural light for imaging, with no blue light, no flicker, no harsh glare. Clear and transparent in sunlight, gentle and elegant indoors — no matter how long you stare, it will not cause visual fatigue.

We firmly believe: good smart home products should blend into life, not interfere with it.

Ordinary screens "actively disturb you"; E Ink "quietly accompanies you."

We gave up brilliant dynamic effects, gave up high-brightness screens, gave up flashy interactions — all in exchange for lasting comfort, quietness, and healing.

In an era when all devices are desperately glowing, we choose quiet, white space, restraint.

I do not want to add another "sparkling device" to my home. Our lives are already saturated with iPads, phones, and laptops. I do not want the medium carrying my precious memories to emit harsh blue light or suddenly pop up distracting notifications.

Fundamentally Different from LCD:

We chose E Ink Spectra6 technology. This is currently the most advanced color ePaper, reflecting natural light rather than emitting it: once placed, it looks like a color photo fresh from the photo studio, with the distinctive texture and weight of real paper.

No backlight feature: when morning sunlight streams into the room, you will see colors gradually emerge like an oil painting. At night, as lights dim, it quietly fades into shadow, unlike a lightbulb that would disrupt the bedroom's cozy atmosphere.

Physical pigments: Spectra6 contains actual moving color microcapsules. When a photo changes, you can see colors flow and settle like real ink.

When designing the prototype, I realized one screen was not enough. A single screen showing photos is just a frame; a single screen showing a clock is just an alarm clock.

We decided to separate functions:

7.3-inch main screen (top): dedicated to your "memories," with no UI clutter, presenting only pure, matte-finish color masterpieces.

2.9-inch secondary screen (bottom): this is your "dashboard." Here it displays time, date, and memo information.

This design solves a real problem: you can check the time at a glance without picking up your phone. Normally, you pick up your phone just to check the time, and thirty minutes later, you are stuck in short videos unable to pull yourself out. The Nowmean E Ink electronic calendar photo frame cuts this chain of distraction.

The first integrated E Ink electronic calendar photo frame with a dual-screen design — the main screen uses a high-resolution E6 E Ink display (1024x600), and the secondary screen uses a 2.9-inch black-and-white E Ink display (supports partial refresh). The dual-screen approach solves a real problem — with a single-screen frame, checking the time, calendar, or memo means the entire screen has to refresh, wasting power and interrupting the image. With two screens, this problem disappears.

Part Two: From Paper Calendars to Smart Calendars — A Return to a Way of Life

Many people share this childhood memory.

A paper calendar hung on the wall at home, tearing off a page each day, turning a chapter each month. We watched the solar terms change, watched holidays approach, watched the four seasons cycle — with a clear, gentle, tangible sense of time.

The paper calendar is a ritual of life etched in the Chinese people's bones.

It reminds us of spring plowing and summer growth, autumn harvest and winter storage; reminds us of the waxing and waning of the moon, the changing of seasons; reminds us to cherish time and not waste our days.

But as times changed, paper calendars slowly disappeared.

Paper calendars get old, dirty, and wrinkled easily; they need replacing every year; they cannot record life or preserve memories.

Phone calendars, while convenient, are hidden behind icons — needing to be opened, searched, and actively browsed. They are invisible and intangible, losing the warmth of life.

So we began to think:

Could we preserve the ritual of traditional calendars while combining it with the convenience of modern technology?

Could we make time visual, give daily life order, and give life beauty?

The E Ink electronic calendar photo frame was born from this.

It is a return to traditional time-keeping culture, and an upgrade of modern minimalist living.

It has the time logic of traditional calendars: Gregorian calendar, lunar calendar, days of the week — fully reproducing Eastern temporal aesthetics.

It has the convenience of modern smart technology: one-tap phone sync, remote updates, automatic time calibration, no manual adjustment needed, no annual replacement required.

It solves the pain points of old and cumbersome paper calendars, and also solves the shortcomings of cold and intangible electronic calendars.

Standing quietly on the desk, you can see at a glance the four seasons, the sun and moon, the passage of time.

Part Three: Both a Calendar and a Time Photo Frame for the Whole Family

The biggest regret of modern people: the best photos always lie in phone galleries.

We take tens of thousands of photos every year: children growing up, family reunions, travel landscapes, friends gathering, the trivial beauty of life.

We carefully record, yet never properly display.

Precious memories are folded into folders, drowned in massive short videos, sleeping in cloud storage.

Life needs recording, but even more, it needs displaying.

We gave this device its gentlest function — static high-definition photo persistent display.

Unlike ordinary electronic photo frames that stay constantly lit, drain power, have glaring brightness, and cheap-looking flickering images.

The E Ink photo frame, after refreshing the image, has zero power consumption, zero flicker, zero blue light.

A single photo can display quietly for a day, a week, a month — persistently staying, with quality rivaling paper-printed photo frames.

A child's lovely smile, a family's warm group photo, a healing travel landscape, a favorite art piece, motivational text, or life quotes — all can be uploaded with one tap, freely switched, and set to rotate.

On the office desk, it heals work fatigue;

In the bedroom, it gently soothes late nights;

In the living room, it decorates the family atmosphere;

In the study, it settles the inner mind.

The most romantic meaning of technology is not piling up specs, but making beauty visible, tangible, and a daily companion.

Part Four: Ultra-Low Power Technology — Truly "Imperceptible Companionship"

Most smart desk ornaments cannot escape one common flaw: frequent charging, poor battery life, cumbersome power cables.

Many smart photo frames and smart calendars essentially require continuous plugging in. Once power is cut, the screen goes dark instantly — not just inconvenient, but a burden on life.

And the biggest core advantage of E Ink is extreme power efficiency.

The physical properties of E Ink dictate: power is consumed only at the moment of image change; static persistent display has zero power consumption.

We deeply optimized the hardware circuit, main control system, and sleep logic to create an ultra-low-power operation solution.

One full charge enables ultra-long standby and ultra-long display — no daily charging, no continuous plugging in, no frequent maintenance.

Sitting on the desk, it runs quietly, works silently, accompanies imperceptibly.

It does not feel like an electronic product — more like a home art piece that never fades.

No need to manage, no need to maintain — it silently records time and quietly preserves beauty.

Part Five: Adapting to All Scenarios — Redefining Desktop Minimalist Aesthetics

From the very beginning of product design, we held one firm philosophy:

Products should adapt to spaces, not the other way around.

The entire device adopts minimalist symmetrical design, gentle rounded corners, elegant premium color palette — no extra buttons, no redundant ports, no flashy decorations.

Clean, pure, premium, versatile.

Whether it is modern minimalist style, natural wood healing style, Chinese Zen style, or business office style, it blends in perfectly.

Office Desk Scenario

The professional's desk no longer has only cold computers and messy files. An E Ink calendar photo frame displays date, schedule, and work memos in real time, enhancing work order and soothing high-pressure work emotions.

Family Living Room Scenario

Replacing old traditional photo frames and paper wall calendars, combining decorative and practical functions, elevating home aesthetic quality.

Study and Tea Room Scenario

Quiet and elegant, calming and settling — suited for reading, office work, and meditation atmospheres, away from light pollution and electronic interference.

Children's Desk Scenario

Zero blue light eye-friendly display — children check the time, view photos, and see study schedules without eye strain, distraction, or screen addiction.

Entryway Scenario

Clean and atmospheric, with clear time display, combining soft furnishing decoration and time display functions — understated and premium.

One product, adapting to whole-house scenarios — it is a tool, a decor piece, and a life attitude.

Part Six: The Life Changes We Want to Bring to Modern People

Modern life is too rushed, too fast, too chaotic.

We chase work, chase progress, chase goals, yet forget to stop and feel life, feel time, feel the present.

We created this E Ink calendar photo frame not just to make a smart hardware device, but to press the mute button on a restless life.

It will not remind you to hurry and be busy; it only tells you that time is gentle.

It will not push anxiety-inducing information; it only quietly accompanies daily life.

It will not glare and disturb your vision; it only gently heals life.

In countless days held hostage by screens,

It is the only quiet, gentle, non-clamoring screen in the house.

Letting you see time when you look up, and see beauty when you look down.

Giving days order, warmth, and ritual.

Part Seven: The Best Technology Is Silent Companionship

True technological gentleness is not infinite smartness, but appropriate quietness.

True life sophistication is not piling up devices, but leaving white space and being at ease.

This E Ink electronic calendar photo frame carries our understanding of modern life:

In a fast-paced era, guarding the right to slowness;

In a clamoring electronic world, preserving a space of quietness;

In hurriedly passing time, preserving all precious beauty.

It is not stunning, but enduringly pleasing;

Not clamorous, but always accompanying;

Not showy, but healing daily life.

May everyone who owns it,

In the cyclical flow of years and seasons,

See time, cherish the present, preserve gentleness, and live well.

Letting time be traceable, letting beauty stay before your eyes.

— E Ink electronic calendar photo frame, silent companionship, worthy of time.

Color ePaper Passive Fridge Magnet

Mon, 27 Jul 2026 15:13:32 +0800

While most smart display devices are chasing larger screens, higher refresh rates, and richer features, a palm-sized product has chosen to make the screen smaller, reduce power consumption to zero, and hide its form into everyday life — it is the magnetic VidaBay color ePaper (E Ink) fridge magnet.

Born at Shanghai Enqi Information Technology Co., Ltd., this product did not follow the conventional "stacking specs" route of smart hardware. Instead, it started from one of the most overlooked everyday home scenarios, completing an innovation of simplification. It brought color ePaper technology out of the inherent track of eReaders and commercial signage, becoming a new favorite on family refrigerator doors in over thirty countries.

Part One: The Origin — Insight from Commercial Large Screens to a Home Market Gap

The starting point of the story lies in the Shanghai Enqi team's years of industry experience.

In 2020, Shanghai Enqi was established in Songjiang, Shanghai. From its founding, the company anchored itself in the smart display track, with government and enterprise commercial use as its initial stronghold. Leveraging self-developed technology and supply chain capabilities, the company's interactive conference tablets and digital photo frame products quickly entered domestic government and enterprise procurement, SME, and gift channels. At the same time, the team held Tencent Cloud agency service qualifications, establishing a firm foothold in the To B sector. Meanwhile, the team early on laid out cross-border export business, possessing complete import and export operating qualifications, with its proprietary brands VidaBay and TeamBay gradually entering the global market.

After serving thousands of government and enterprise clients and refining generation after generation of large-screen display products, the team began to ponder a reverse question: is the value of display technology limited only to conference rooms, offices, and living room TV cabinets?

This question came from team members' daily observations. Having made digital photo frame products for years, they knew all too well the pain points of traditional products: the need for continuous power supply, with messy desktop cables affecting aesthetics; operations relying on remote controls or complex system settings, making them difficult for elders and children to use; size and weight dictating that they could only be placed on desks, entryways, and a few other positions, unable to enter more daily scenarios.

On the other hand, every family's refrigerator door is a "golden display spot" overlooked by everyone. It is a high-frequency interaction center in the home — cooking, getting drinks, organizing food, everyone stops by multiple times a day; it is also a natural information-bearing area — paper fridge magnets, instant photos, sticky notes, shopping lists — people have long been accustomed to posting trivial information and mementos here.

But this space has never been touched by truly smart technology. Fridge magnets on the market are always static; changing a photo means reprinting and repurchasing; written notes cannot be edited and yellow and curl over time. Could there be a product that retains the compactness, casualness, and decorative feel of fridge magnets while also possessing the flexibility and convenience of smart display?

This seemingly small idea became the initial prototype of the VidaBay color ePaper fridge magnet.

Part Two: The Breakthrough — Putting ePaper Into a Fridge Magnet

With the direction set, the first question the team had to answer was: what technology could adapt to the extremely lightweight scenario of a "fridge magnet"?

LCD screens were quickly ruled out. They require continuous power, and wiring on a refrigerator is impossible; even with a built-in battery, the battery life would not last more than a few days, and frequent charging would completely erode user willingness. More importantly, a glowing small screen on a refrigerator would appear abrupt and glaring, losing the warm feel of home decor.

What ultimately came into view was color ePaper technology.

At the time, ePaper was not new, but its application scenarios were highly concentrated: e-book readers, supermarket price tags, and large commercial signage — almost all To B or professional reading scenarios. Almost no one had tried making it into a home decor item for ordinary consumers.

Yet its characteristics perfectly matched the needs of a fridge magnet: the image can persist, truly achieving zero-power display; the display effect is close to paper printing, warm and not glaring, fitting naturally in life-oriented scenes like kitchens and dining rooms; no charging needed, completely freeing from the constraint of plugging in; clearer display under sunlight.

More importantly, the team made a key form factor decision: magnetic integrated design. This was the industry's first consumer product to deeply combine color ePaper with a magnetic fridge magnet form. No stand, no base, no redundant structure — the entire device is a slim magnetic block that works by simply sticking it on a refrigerator, whiteboard, or any iron surface. It can be taken off at will and takes up no space. Without the traditional smart device path of connecting via WiFi or Bluetooth to upload images, it understands the needs of overseas family users: simple, direct, zero threshold. Photos can be transmitted from a phone via NFC in about 30 seconds to sync to the screen, easily transmitting life photos. Children can upload their drawings to stick on the fridge, and even people unfamiliar with digital products can get started in a second.

Beyond photo transfer, the team retained sufficient practical attributes: daily memos, to-do reminders, and message notes can all be updated at any time. It is no longer just a decorative item — exit reminders at the entryway, family message boards on the fridge, and it also comes with a genuine leather case that can be hung on a bag or car mount to always see your favorite photos.

Part Three: The Refinement — Obsessing Over Everyday Experience in Every Millimeter

From idea to mass production lies countless details requiring relentless effort.

First is thickness and weight. As a fridge magnet, being too thick would look clumsy and unaesthetic, with the risk of falling and screen breakage. The team repeatedly adjusted structural design and component selection, compressing the overall thickness to the extreme while maintaining screen pixel quality and aesthetic design, so that when stuck on the fridge, it looks like an exquisite, aesthetically pleasing magnetic decorative piece rather than an "electronic device."

The balance of magnetic force was also a focus of repeated tuning. Too weak, and it would slip when opening or closing the fridge door; too strong, and it would be inconvenient to remove and reposition. Engineers tested several magnetic solutions, ultimately selecting a balance that accommodates both stability and convenience — even with frequent fridge door opening and closing, it stays firmly attached.

Display quality tuning was another protracted battle. The color and contrast logic of ePaper is completely different from LCD screens. To present the most comfortable quality for portrait photos and landscape shots, the team imposed strict requirements on the screen supplier, ensuring all colors were consistent, and through continuous adjustment of waveform programs, ultimately achieved pure and unified colors.

What the product R&D team cared most about was also the real experience of "zero power consumption." Unlike the low-power claims of many products, the VidaBay fridge magnet requires no power when the image is static, displaying persistently.

In the team's view, good home tech products should be "invisible." They should not require users to learn how to use them, should not frequently remind users to charge, update, or maintain, but should quietly stay there, blending into daily life, ready to use exactly when needed.

Part Four: Going Global — From China Manufacturing to a Gentle Carrier for Global Families

After the product was finalized, Shanghai Enqi chose the path it knew best: entering overseas markets first.

Leveraging channel resources accumulated through years of cross-border trade, the VidaBay color ePaper fridge magnet quickly landed on mainstream cross-border e-commerce platforms in Europe and America, simultaneously entering overseas offline retail and gift wholesaler channels. The team had a clear rationale for choosing the European and American markets: overseas families have stronger demand for home decor, a more mature fridge culture, and a larger gift market, making this kind of small item combining creativity and practicality easier to break into the market.

Market feedback was more enthusiastic than expected.

Young overseas users use it as a DIY decoration tool, freely changing favorite illustrations and patterns to make the fridge a personalized corner of the home; family users use it to sync children's growing photos, with distant elders able to update photos with a tap, without needing to learn complex cloud albums; many use it as a kitchen assistant, posting recipes, writing shopping lists, and noting family dietary restrictions.

In many overseas buyers' reviews, the most frequently mentioned words are not "technology" or "smart," but "warm," "thoughtful," and "convenient." This precisely confirms the team's original idea: technology is never the end — making life a bit softer is.

For Shanghai Enqi, this small fridge magnet also has special significance. It represents the company's successful exploration from To B commercial display to To C consumer electronics; it is a landing of self-developed technology from serving government and enterprise clients to entering ordinary families worldwide. It proves that smart hardware does not have to be a grand narrative — thoroughly addressing and perfecting a tiny scenario can also create unique value.

Part Five: Epilogue — Letting Technology Move Into the Crevices of Life

Today, the VidaBay magnetic color ePaper fridge magnet has become a core growth pillar of Shanghai Enqi's overseas business, and the team's exploration continues.

From conference tablets to digital photo frames, to palm-sized fridge magnets, Shanghai Enqi has always been doing the same thing: finding the most suitable scenarios for display technology. If large screens are for improving efficiency and collaboration, then this small E Ink screen is for filling those trivial, warm, overlooked moments in life.

In the VidaBay brand name, "Vida" comes from the Spanish word for "life," and "Bay" means harbor. This small fridge magnet, just like its name, has no showy specs, no complex features — it just quietly sticks on the fridge door, using a photo that can be updated anytime, a warm message, or a clear list to become a small happiness in daily life.

True innovation is not always a world-disrupting breakthrough. Sometimes, putting an old technology into a new scenario, doing a small thing to the extreme, and letting technology truly blend into everyday life — that is the most vital innovation.

Full-Color ePaper Badge

Mon, 27 Jul 2026 14:55:43 +0800

In an era where creative badges and badge accessories have long become mainstream carriers for young people's daily fashion, collecting hobbies, and corporate brand communication, we have deeply engaged with industry pain points and, inspired by the circular avatars of social media platforms, conceived the idea of breaking through the limitations of traditional badges. Mainstream paper and metal badges on the market have always had unavoidable shortcomings: patterns are permanently fixed and cannot be changed once made; after purchase, users can only display a single fixed style; as collections grow, they become scattered and difficult to store; personal expression is extremely limited; and the one-time-use materials easily cause resource waste and are not eco-friendly. Whether young people want to freely switch styles and express real-time emotions, or enterprises hope to achieve long-term brand communication through creative gifts, traditional badges can no longer meet the diverse, lightweight, and sustainable consumption needs of today. This is the core motivation behind our creation of this 1.69-inch six-color circular ePaper badge.

Based on deep insight into industry pain points, this innovative ePaper badge was born. The product innovatively features a 1.69-inch six-color high-definition circular ePaper color display, adopting a small-size circular screen custom solution and a highly integrated multi-module cold-press packaging process. While streamlining the body and enhancing texture, it significantly optimizes the wearing and display experience, comprehensively surpassing traditional paper and metal badges and unlocking a new form of creative accessories.

Compared to the unchangeable fixed designs of traditional badges, the biggest core advantage of this product is its ability to be repeatedly customized with new images and infinitely reused. Users do not need to repeatedly purchase new badges — they can simply upload images and switch display content at will through a dedicated app. This can meet the vast majority of creative graphic display needs on the market, and also allows users to change personalized mood images based on daily feelings, outfit styles, and scene atmospheres — truly achieving one badge, a thousand styles, precisely meeting the diverse and differentiated personal expression needs of young people. Meanwhile, the product's circular screen form perfectly matches the circular avatar visual system of major mainstream social media platforms, offering higher aesthetic compatibility and more textured outfit display and social photo-sharing.

In corporate commercial scenarios, it also completely overturns the communication shortcomings of traditional creative gifts. Traditional corporate logo badges and creative gifts have fixed patterns, single communication forms, and poor reusability, while this ePaper badge can flexibly switch between corporate logos, brand slogans, and event theme visuals. As a business gift or event giveaway, it can both effectively convey brand image and iteratively update promotional content with corporate activities, making brand communication no longer limited to fixed patterns and achieving lightweight, normalized, and long-term brand exposure.

Furthermore, the product's core feature of being recyclable and reusable perfectly avoids the one-time-use and idle waste problems of traditional paper and metal badges, significantly reducing creative consumption costs and practicing the sustainable concept of low-carbon eco-friendliness. From personal fashion expression and mood display, to creative collecting and corporate brand promotion, this ePaper badge with innovative craftsmanship redefines the value and experience of creative badges in the new era with its core advantages of flexibility, longevity, eco-friendliness, and diversity.

ePaper Peak 80 FPS Refresh Technology

Mon, 27 Jul 2026 14:43:56 +0800

For a long time, E Ink devices have left many users with the impression: eye-friendly, suitable for reading, but slow to refresh, with noticeable ghosting, and unsuitable for complex interactions.

This perception is being rewritten by Bigme.

As a brand deeply involved in E Ink products for years, Bigme has continuously invested in refresh technology optimization. From eReaders, E Ink tablets to E Ink phones, Bigme has been improving screen response speed, image transition smoothness, and ghosting control, pushing E Ink devices beyond "slow reading" into more efficient mobile office, information browsing, and smart interaction scenarios.

The Challenge of E Ink Is Not Just About "Fast Refresh"

Unlike LCD and OLED screens, E Ink displays render images through the movement of electronic ink particles. Its advantages are: display quality close to paper, low blue light, low flicker, and clear visibility under strong light.

But precisely because of the different display principle, E Ink has long faced technical challenges in refresh speed, dynamic images, and ghosting control.

If you only pursue refresh speed, the image may show more ghosting; if you only pursue a clean image, the refresh process becomes slower. Truly excellent E Ink refresh technology is not simply about pushing numbers higher — it is about finding a better balance between speed, clarity, and ghosting control.

Bigme's technical breakthrough lies precisely here.

Up to 80 FPS — Bringing E Ink Into a Higher Fluidity Era

In Bigme products, HiBreak Dual and HiBreak Pro have achieved up to 80 FPS refresh performance. For the E Ink phone category, this is a significant upgrade. Enter the E Ink Center, select custom mode, choose Hyper refresh mode, and the frame rate can reach 80 FPS!

The changes brought by higher frame rates are immediate:

When scrolling pages, image transitions are smoother;

When browsing social media or news, the drag feel is lighter;

When typing text, response is more immediate;

In handwriting, annotation, and document reading scenarios, the "half-beat-slow" disjointedness is also reduced.

For users, this means E Ink devices are no longer only suited for static reading — they can also serve as smart terminals for office work, information browsing, lightweight social interaction, and focused use.

From E Ink Phones to Tablets, eReaders, and Monitors — Bigme Is Elevating the Refresh Experience Across Its Entire Lineup

Bigme's refresh technology does not serve only a single flagship model.

In addition to E Ink phones like HiBreak Dual and HiBreak Pro, Bigme is also continuously optimizing the refresh performance of the B7Pro E Ink tablet, B10 E Ink tablet, B6 eReader, and E Ink monitors.

The upcoming color E Ink monitor B251Pro will also significantly increase the frame rate over the previous generation B251, bringing a smoother interactive experience to the 25.3-inch large-screen color E Ink monitor.

The 7-inch E Ink tablet B7Pro's frame rate has also reached 80 FPS. B10's refresh performance has reached 50 FPS — for a 10.3-inch large-screen E Ink product, achieving this level of fluidity means large-screen E Ink devices can also deliver a smoother experience in reading, office work, annotation, meeting notes, and multitasking.

Auto Ghosting Clearance — Making High-Speed Refresh Cleaner

Another familiar issue for E Ink users is "ghosting."

When reading, scrolling, switching pages, or using complex interfaces, content from the previous page sometimes remains on the screen, affecting the visual experience. Especially when refresh speed increases, controlling ghosting simultaneously becomes even more important.

Bigme's auto ghosting clearance technology helps the device intelligently optimize display effects across different usage scenarios. When users read, browse, write, view images, or use apps, the system performs refresh optimization based on image changes, reducing ghosting buildup and keeping the screen in a cleaner, more stable display state.

Additionally, Bigme has added a water-ripple page-turning animation effect for users who love reading. In magazine mode, comic mode, and custom mode, users can enable page-turning animation for more natural page transitions and reduced ghosting.

This is also the key value of Bigme's refresh technology: not just pursuing "fast," but maintaining image clarity and readability while being fast.

Different Scenarios, Different Refresh Strategies

The usage scenarios for E Ink devices are highly diverse.

When reading e-books, users care more about text clarity and low power consumption; when browsing the web, users need smoother scrolling; when reading comics and magazines, users want richer colors and clearer image layers; when viewing lightweight dynamic content, users want more continuous images.

To adapt to different usage needs, Bigme provides multiple refresh modes in the E Ink Center, allowing users to choose or adjust based on scenarios, including default mode, comic mode, magazine mode, video mode, and custom mode.

After entering custom mode and selecting Hyper refresh mode, the device can unleash higher frame rate performance (e.g., HiBreak Dual and other products can reach 80 FPS), and users can also adjust color saturation and more.

Eye Protection and Fluidity — No Longer a Choice Between Two

In the past, many users chose E Ink because they wanted to reduce blue light, flicker, and eye fatigue from prolonged screen viewing. But at the same time, they had to accept E Ink's limitations of slow refresh and insufficiently smooth interaction.

Bigme hopes to change this trade-off.

From HiBreak Dual, HiBreak Pro to B7Pro, B10, B6, and other products, Bigme is integrating higher frame rates, auto ghosting clearance, Android open system, stylus support, AI office capabilities, and mobile communication into E Ink devices.

Users can enjoy the comfortable reading experience brought by E Ink screens while also having operational efficiency closer to modern smart devices. Whether for reading, studying, office work, meeting notes, document annotation, or business travel and mobile office, Bigme E Ink devices are covering more real-world usage scenarios.

Bigme Is Pushing E Ink Into a New Performance Phase

The E Ink industry is evolving from "can read books" to "can do office work, communicate, interact, and create."

Bigme's high frame rate refresh technology and auto ghosting clearance technology are important embodiments of this trend. The up to 80 FPS refresh performance gives E Ink phones like HiBreak Dual and HiBreak Pro higher fluidity; the continuous improvement in refresh experience for B10, B7Pro, B6, and other products also makes E Ink tablets and eReaders more practical.

Bigme is proving with generation after generation of products: E Ink does not have to remain stuck in the old impression of "slow" and "single-purpose." It can be faster, clearer, and smarter — and can also become a healthier screen choice for modern people's daily work, study, and life.

(Launched 2026) AI ePaper Instant Camera

Mon, 20 Jul 2026 17:36:44 +0800

Many people love instant cameras not because they produce better image quality or are more advanced than smartphones. On the contrary, they have many "imperfections": colors may shift, poor lighting easily ruins shots, the shutter cannot be undone once pressed, and the development process is full of uncertainty.

Yet it is precisely these imperfections that give instant cameras a charm that smartphone photos can hardly replace. When a photo slowly emerges from the machine, when the image gradually appears, when friends gather around waiting for it to develop — in that moment, the photo is no longer just a file, but something like a real souvenir of a moment that actually happened. It can be passed to someone else, written with a message, stuck on a wall, or tucked between the pages of a book. It carries the warmth of the moment, the emotion of the scene, and a precious sense that "this is the only one."

We initially fell in love with instant cameras for this very feeling.

But the longer you like instant cameras, the more acutely you feel their limitations. Film is too expensive, making every shutter press cautious; the risk of a ruined shot turns what should be casual recording into hesitation; the consumable nature of the medium quietly adds a subtle cost pressure to the act of "documenting life." Often, it's not that people don't want to take photos — it's that they start calculating before pressing the shutter: is this shot worth it?

Recording, which should be the lightest of actions, becomes a choice that requires weighing trade-offs.

It was through this long-term observation that an idea about "making recording more free" began to take shape. And the origin of this idea didn't appear out of nowhere.

It came from someone who has been persistently experimenting at the intersection of imaging and hardware — Xie Fayan.

If you've ever used a Miaomiao printer, you've likely already encountered his products in some sense. The Miaomiao printer is a minimalist compact printing device that brought "printing anytime, anywhere" into the hands of ordinary people. It was once hugely popular in study scenarios, helping many turn key knowledge points, mistakes, and notes into small stickers they could stick anywhere.

At that stage, Xie Fayan productized "instant output" at scale for the first time, giving a seemingly traditional hardware form new vitality in the mobile internet era. The Miaomiao printer eventually sold over 10 million units cumulative.

This is not just a sales figure — it means a massive number of users genuinely experienced "instant printing" in their daily lives: taking content off the screen and turning it into something tangible that can be touched, stuck on a desk, or flipped through casually.

After this, he created another important but relatively low-key product — the electronic word card.

The significance of this product lies in the fact that it gave the team their first deep exposure to E Ink display technology. Unlike traditional screens, E Ink displays emit almost no light, consume extremely low power, can hold an image for extended periods, and offer a visual experience much closer to "paper."

The electronic word card surpassed 1 million units in sales within a year of launch. It validated something important: people don't only need "screens" — they also need a quieter, more paper-like digital experience.

More importantly, this phase gave the team their first systematic understanding of a question: when "content" no longer exists solely on screens but can persist stably on a paper-like medium, the way people "record" and "display" things changes.

This laid the foundation for the later exploration of color ePaper.

If the Miaomiao printer solved "how to print content out," and the electronic word card solved "how to make digital content persist like paper," then the next question naturally arose: could "images" themselves become a tangible entity that persists long-term, can be freely changed, and carries no consumable burden?

It wasn't until color ePaper gradually matured that a clearer outline of an answer began to emerge.

We suddenly realized: perhaps the most captivating part of instant cameras doesn't necessarily have to rely on consumable film.

What we truly want to preserve is the experience of "press the shutter → immediately get a result you can hold in your hand → it becomes part of the moment."

Thus, a new product form began to be proposed: the ePaper instant camera.

It is not a replacement for the traditional instant camera, nor an extension of the smartphone gallery, but an entirely new intermediate form — between "paper" and "screen," between "physical" and "digital."

If the essence of the instant camera is "freezing a moment, once," then the ePaper instant camera aims to make freezing moments something that can happen repeatedly, without burden.

It still preserves the ritual of instant photography: press the shutter, wait for the image to generate, hold the physical result, share it with friends. But the difference is, this "photo" is no longer consumed.

It can be re-shot, replaced, and re-recorded. It can sit on a desk long-term, or become the next new memory at any time. It won't waste cost on failure, nor miss a moment due to hesitation.

In this process, Xie Fayan's accumulated experience in hardware products became very clear. The Miaomiao printer era's understanding of "low-barrier recording" taught the team how to make users willing to use a device frequently; the electronic word card era's practice with E Ink displays taught the team how to balance "long-lasting display" with "low power consumption"; and these experiences ultimately converged on a larger direction: the physical manifestation of images, but no longer at the cost of consumption.

When color ePaper matured, this path finally began to converge into a clear product definition.

We began to imagine a new scenario.

At a gathering, everyone takes a group photo — no longer worrying about whether there's enough film, no longer afraid of a bad shot. The photo appears on the ePaper display within seconds, becoming a real part of the tabletop. If someone isn't satisfied, they can shoot again; if someone wants to add a caption, they can edit it instantly; ultimately, this photo becomes a "shared memory entity" for that moment.

On a trip, users can continuously update the image, keeping their favorite moment on the ePaper display, letting it accompany the entire journey.

In daily life, it can become a quiet memory window: today, a friend's smile; tomorrow, the sky from a walk; the day after, an ordinary but warm afternoon.

It is no longer "taking a photo," but "letting a memory enter physical space."

This is the experience the ePaper instant camera hopes to create.

It inherits the emotional value of instant cameras but removes the anxiety of consumption; it retains the physicality of photos but breaks free from one-time costs; it is not like a smartphone — infinite yet easily forgotten — nor like traditional film — precious but irreversible. It is more like a "memory frame" that can be continuously updated.

Our vision thus became very clear: let more people document life without burden.

This "without burden" is not merely about lower cost — it is a release of psychological state. You don't need to hesitate before pressing the shutter, you don't need to regret a bad shot, and you don't need to do cost calculations when it comes to recording life.

You just need to record.

Because life itself is already worth preserving.

The ePaper instant camera hopes to be such a tool: at gatherings, it brings people a little closer; on trips, it lets memories linger a little longer; at life's important moments, it gives emotions a place to land.

And at the starting point of this path, there is an important trajectory of accumulation: from the Miaomiao printer, to the electronic word card, to the emergence of color ePaper.

They are not isolated products, but a path continuously approaching the same question: can we make "recording" lighter and lighter?

As this question was answered step by step, the ePaper instant camera naturally appeared.

It is not a sudden invention, but the result of long-term exploration. It is also a very simple return — letting people want to take photos again, want to record again, want to believe again that every ordinary moment deserves to be seen.

And without any burden.

(Launched 2026) Cover Glass E Ink Prism™ Color-Changing Strip Integration Technology

Thu, 09 Jul 2026 23:14:45 +0800

I. Product Innovation Background

Traditional electronic product cover plates are primarily made of rigid transparent or single-color materials such as glass and acrylic. Their colors and surface ID patterns (e.g., brand logos, decorative textures, personalized identifiers) are fixed designs that cannot be adjusted based on user preferences, usage scenarios, or environmental changes. This fixed design approach has the following limitations:

(1) Limited functionality: Traditional cover plates only provide basic screen protection and scratch resistance, lacking interactivity and engagement. Users cannot switch cover plate colors and ID patterns according to personal preferences, failing to meet aesthetic requirements across different scenarios such as daily use, business settings, and leisure activities.

(2) Limited color options: Traditional cover plates typically come in black or white, making it difficult to switch colors. Color mixing is challenging — repeated ink color adjustments often still fail to achieve the desired color effect.

(3) Poor adaptability: Fixed-color cover plates exhibit significant visual differences under varying lighting conditions. For example, light-colored cover plates reflect glare under strong light, while dark-colored ones have low visibility in dim environments. Additionally, fixed ID patterns cannot provide dynamic feedback based on device status (e.g., power-on, charging, notifications).

Therefore, developing a new type of cover plate with a simple structure, controllable cost, and dynamically changeable colors and logo patterns has become key to addressing the limitations of existing technologies. ePaper color-changing film technology offers advantages such as low power consumption, lightweight flexibility, and flexible color switching. Applying it to electronic product cover plates can effectively solve the above issues and meet the demand for personalized customization of electronic products.

II. Product Innovation Purpose

Since the display layer of ePaper screens is composed of micro-capsules containing dye molecules, it cannot bend like OLED. This makes it difficult to resolve the space occupied by edge wiring, limiting the design to three-sided narrow bezels at most. This results in one side always having a wider bezel, significantly constraining the overall ID design of the device. The only workaround is to silk-screen side strips in different colors to create a visual narrow-bezel compensation.

Our product department engineers, while exploring color-changing film applications, noticed that customers frequently adjust side strip colors back and forth. To achieve the desired visual effect, a single new project's cover plate often requires multiple rounds of sampling and color confirmation. This led to the exploration of applying color-changing film technology to cover plate color variation. After discussions with the customer, we jointly decided to develop a cover plate product capable of side color changing.

III. Design Inspiration

The vertical gradient color strip design on the cover plate side is rooted in Eastern natural aesthetics and the art of light and shadow flow. Drawing inspiration from the natural color transitions of mountain glow between dawn and dusk, it captures the diverse color palette that flows naturally from sunrise to sunset, freezing ever-changing natural light and shadow within the compact side area. This imbues the minimalist, rectangular screen exterior with dynamic layered beauty and poetic depth.

The vertically arranged gradient colors replicate the light and shadow transition pattern of the sky from deep to light, warm to cool during dawn and dusk. The warm tones of reddish-brown and light yellow are drawn from the morning glow at dawn, carrying a vibrant and lively visual atmosphere that symbolizes vigorous upward momentum, representing the device's stable, efficient, and continuously sustained performance. It also embodies the user's aspirations to move forward and forge ahead. The transitional blue tones originate from the clear sky, representing rationality, reliability, and composure, reflecting the product's precise and stable technical core and conveying a professional, rigorous character. The concluding deep green and gray tones are extracted from the tranquil base colors of mountain forests at dusk, combining inclusiveness and calmness — both softening the visual clutter of multi-color combinations and symbolizing steady endurance and long-lasting durability.

The regular vertical narrow strip design, set against the large-area minimalist silver-gray body, breaks the monotony of the overall appearance. The vertically extending color lines visually elongate the body proportions, giving the device a sleek and refined aesthetic. Multiple colors transition gradually and softly without strong color conflicts, balancing premium visual recognition without disrupting the device's overall minimalist and elegant design tone.

The design distills the beauty of natural temporal sequences into industrial product details, integrating the gentle poetry of mountains and rivers at dawn and dusk into hardware exterior design, giving cold industrial components the warmth of natural aesthetics.

IV. Product Structure

The RF-ET0700356 color-changing cover plate is a color-changeable eReader cover plate product. The product includes a glass cover plate, AG film, PS film, color-changing ePaper, and a complete driver board.

1) Color-changing cover plate stacked structure

2) Substrate routing and processing flow

Substrate: Uses ultra-thin, ultra-light substrate material primarily composed of polymer compounds. The circuitry employs high-precision transfer printing technology, with silver paste via-holes connecting the carbon paste blocks on the front of the substrate to the silver wire traces on the back. The substrate processing flow is as follows:

3) ePaper

E Ink Prism™ 3S microcup-based 6-color ePaper. The film consists of millions of microcup structures, with microstructure sizes approximately the diameter of a human hair. Each microcup contains four types of charged particles suspended in a transparent fluid: positively charged red and blue particles, and negatively charged yellow and white particles. When a positive or negative electric field is applied, the corresponding particles migrate to the top of the microcup, displaying the desired color and pattern. In Prism 3S color display, E Ink guarantees six colors: white/red/yellow/black/blue/green, where white/red/yellow are primary colors and black/blue/green are mixed colors.

Upper PS film: A barrier film suitable for EPD displays and flexible solar photovoltaic encapsulation, featuring high weather resistance and high moisture barrier performance. The water vapor transmission rate (WVTR) can meet 10⁻³.

4) Driver module

The Prism 3S driver IC uses the IST7400LB1. The IST7400LB1 is a 64-channel output ePaper (EPD) source driver chip. The device employs a 3-bit serial input/parallel output architecture, with each output channel integrating level-shifting functionality that converts 3-bit digital signals into 8-level analog output voltages (VP3, VP2, VP1, GND, VN1, VN2, VN3, and high-impedance state Hiz). Through input logic levels combined with OE pin control, the 64 output pins (S1 through S64) can dynamically switch to any of the above voltage levels.

The main controller chip is the STM32 microcontroller from STMicroelectronics, featuring an ARM architecture core with low-power characteristics. 64Mb SPI flash + 2kb EEPROM, USB UART/USB Slave/TF card/NRF/ATK-Module Port.

(Control card module)

V. Product Demonstration Results

In April, we completed sample assembly and debugging, and brought the product to the customer site for live demonstration. A total of 5 programmed dynamic graphic loops were displayed, along with multiple static graphics. The samples were controlled via board cards, with future support for whole-device APP control. The customer expressed satisfaction with the display effect and will continue to explore the application of color-changing film on eReader cover plates, promoting multi-scenario applications of color-changing film technology.