Electronic Whiteboards

Though E Ink technology is perhaps best known for its use in ereaders, it can also be found in phones, magazine covers, signage, and more. And now Ricoh is adding what's billed as the world's thinnest and lightest digital whiteboard to the list.

​Many boardrooms have a whiteboard for collaborative working, some may even have modern digital varieties with smart device integration. Dell is offering a similar kind of collaborative working experience, but on a 75 inch 4K IPS touchscreen monitor that the team can all work on at the same time.​

A few years ago, Microsoft revealed the Surface Hub, an interactive electronic whiteboard with video conferencing capabilities targeted at businesses. The expensive device didn't exactly take off, but the company is hoping to find greater success with the second-generation model – the Surface Hub 2.

​Organizing an office full of people on a project can be tough, and it’s even more chaotic in the modern workforce, when that group can be meeting from anywhere in the world. To try to bring that to order, Cisco is pitching the Spark Board to use the cloud to replicate visual brainstorming sessions.

Google has announced its latest entry into the hardware market: Jamboard, a “digital whiteboard” and physical extension of the G Suite of business software.

The evolution of the electronic whiteboard continues with Panasonic's latest Panaboards incorporating a color scanning feature, so users can accurately print the outcomes of brainstorms, complex diagrams or ideas, in full color.