Thinfilm Receives Engineering Orders for Prototypes

Thin Film Electronics ASA (Thinfilm) announced it has received and accepted two engineering orders from leading toy manufacturers. Delivery of the prototypes is scheduled for Q2 2011.

“Cost-sensitive consumer applications are the right proving ground for printed electronics. Thinfilm is meeting this challenge by delivering prototyping design services to toy manufacturers and engineering quantities of memory labels and memory-enhanced cards,” said Davor Sutija, Thinfilm CEO.

Thinfilm has seen significant interest from the toys and games market, and is also experiencing growing interest from other industries.

“This traction, including design of specific toy prototypes, accelerated with the launches of the Thinfilm Memory Controller and the OBA game,” Sutija continues. The OBA demo game was launched in February and the Thinfilm Memory Controller in November 2010.

Thinfilm’s current product offering is Thinfilm Memory, 20-bit non-volatile rewriteable printed memory, and the Thinfilm Memory Controller, an application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC). The Memory Controller makes it possible to design smaller, more cost effective reader/writer units, and coupled with the Toy Development Kit launched in December 2010, enables rapid prototyping of interactive toys and games.

In the OBA reference game, the OBA inhabitants evolve and mature their capabilities and powers through acquiring eggs on each game level. Cards with Thinfilm Memory store game status.