SiPix and SmartDisplayer Develop World`s First ISO Compliant Payment DisplayCard Featuring SiPix Electronic Paper Display
Released on = August 3, 2006, 4:55 pm
Press Release Author = FutureWorks
Industry = Financial
Press Release Summary = FREMONT, CALIF., June 30, 2006 -- SiPix Imaging, Inc., an award-winning manufacturer of next-generation electronic paper displays, today announced that it, along with SmartDisplayer, developed a flexible display panel embedded into an ISO compliant payment card. The companies also received the Display Application of the Year Award from the Society for Information Display (SID).
Press Release Body = SiPix (www.sipix.com) and SmartDisplayer (www.smartdisplayer.com) created the "first flexible display panel to be embedded into an ISO-compliant payment card."
SiPix Microcup® Electronic Paper is the key enabler for the DisplayCard solution, specifically designed for the application's requirements - flexibility, impact resistance, extreme thinness, and ultra-low power consumption. The result is a flexible, 0.25-mm thin e-paper display for increased smart card security, control, and personalization.
The revolutionary One Time Password (OTP) DisplayCard, developed by Innovative Card Technologies (www.incardtech.com) and authentication expert nCryptone (www.ncryptone.com), enables cardholders to generate and display a dynamic passcode for one-time use. During an online merchant checkout or home banking login, the cardholder obtains a new, unique number by pressing a button on the card. As prompted, the cardholder then enters the number, proving the presence of the card, and completes the transaction. With the DisplayCard, banks can strengthen online banking sign-on by enabling two-factor authentication.
To meet demand by merchant banks, SiPix will complete expansion of its automated high-volume module production line before the end of 2006. SiPix Microcup Electronic Paper is the only display solution today that meets the requirements of ISO card standards.
SID is the premier international professional society exclusively devoted to the advancement of electronic-display technology, manufacturing, applications, marketing, and sales.
About SiPix Imaging
SiPix Imaging, Inc., a world leader in Flexible Electronic Paper (electrophoretic) Display solutions, was established in 1999 and is located in Silicon Valley, California. With Microcup® e-Paper, SiPix generates flexible, impact resistant, and extremely thin displays with ultra-low power consumption from image retention with the power removed for system designers. In Fremont, California, the firm creates e-Paper material. In Chung-Li, Taiwan, a production facility provides display module development services and volume manufacturing. The company has filed over 100 original patents.
For more information: www.sipix.com
About SmartDisplayer
SmartDisplayer created the world's first IC Card with an embedded Electronic Paper Display (EPD) in April 2005. Compliant with Smart Card ISO specifications, the built-in display module is flexible, withstands impact pressure, and is ultra-thin. The company developed an ASIC controller to control EPDs and interface with other components
such as Smart Card ICs, buttons, and speakers. SmartDisplayer offers Display IC Cards as well as Display Module inlays for Display IC Cards.
For more information: www.smartdisplayer.com
About InCard Technologies (ICT)
Innovative Card Technologies, Inc. ("InCard") is a leader in payment and non-financial card enhancements. InCard issued its first product, the LensCard (a credit card with a built-in magnifying lens) in 1998. InCard has developed "Power Inlay Technology" which integrates a battery, circuit, switch and output device into a payment card. InCard has developed a payment card with an embedded display that generates a dynamic One-Time Password (OTP). The OTP can be used by issuers for card not present and online transactions. Additionally, the OTP can be utilized for corporate secured access.
InCard offers banks an opportunity to be a leader and innovator in the payment card market. InCard is a publicly traded company on the Over the Counter Bulletin Board
under the symbol INVC.
For more information: www.incardtech.com
About nCryptone
nCryptone is part of the Prosodie group and has experience in the "Power Embedded ISO Card" since 1993. Thanks to this expertise, it won the ANVAR "Innovative Firm" award in 2003. The company is characterized by four fields of competence: security and authentication software development, micro electronic hardware solutions, management
of MSP (managed service provider) systems for distant authentication, and consulting for companies not only in the fields of security and authentication but also for the creation of card prototypes with embedded electronic components. nCryptone also owns and manages a portfolio of 23 worldwide patents related to sound chip cards and