SID Debuts Innovation Zone for Cutting-Edge Display Technologies

1/25/2012 9:38 PM 

At Display Week 2012, the Society for Information Display is providing a new forum for live demonstrations of emerging information display technologies and related areas. This new exhibit platform is called the “Innovation Zone” (I-Zone) and will appear in the main Exhibit Hall, under the sponsorship of E Ink Holdings, on June 5-6 in the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center in Boston, Massachusetts.

"Display Week has always been the best place for companies to exhibit their display products," says Jerzy Kanicki, Chairman of SID's I-Zone Committee. "The missing piece has been a platform concentrated in one area for small companies, labs, institutes, and other research entities with limited funding to exhibit the very newest display technology." The I-Zone will allow researchers to demonstrate their prototypes or other hardware demo units for two days free of charge at the premier display exhibition in North America. This new platform will also enable attendees to view best-in-class emerging information display technologies in a dedicated area on the show floor. Access to free exhibition space encourages participation by small companies, startups, universities, government labs, and independent research labs. The I-Zone will make Display Week an even more exciting and relevant show, says Kanicki, noting: "Some of this year's exhibits will showcase cutting-edge demos and prototypes that will power the products of tomorrow."

Proposals to demonstrate new displays, input technologies, and innovations in related fields such as solid-state lighting, flexible organic electronics, and bio-inspired electronics are currently being solicited by the I-Zone selection committee. Technologies should be in the pre-product stage, and demos that are being shown for the first time in a public forum are particularly encouraged.

The I-Zone selection committee will evaluate submissions and select the strongest proposals to receive free space within the I-Zone. Submissions are due by Monday, April 2, 2012, and anyone interested should visit http://www.sid.org/AboutSID/Awards.aspx for more details. To submit a proposal please visit http://www.cloznet.com/pcm/sidi3d/sidi3d.cfm

As an added incentive, at Display Week 2012, the I-Zone Committee will select and announce a winner of the "Best Prototype at Display Week." The winning technology will also be featured in Information Display magazine.