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An Efficient Blue OLED is Under Development

by Arthur Berman

A team of researchers at the Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd. (Atsughi, Japan), and headed by Satoshi Seo is developing a novel OLED device architecture. The team reports that it enables high quantum efficiency, …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| OLED Materials| OLEDs| Vol 23 - Issue 34

Introducing the Smartphone Projector 2.0

by Arthur Berman

When I first saw the Google Cardboard 3D smartphone based headset, I remember saying out loud “that’s really clever, why didn’t I think of that?” Well, I just came across another new-to-me product of …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Portable Projectors| Smartphones| Vol 23 - Issue 33

Biocompatible touchpad

A Stretchable Touch Pad is Under Development

by Arthur Berman

One possible scenario for future human-computer interactions envisions touch panels that are stretchable. Even more visionary are concepts that utilize touch panels that are biocompatible in order to allow integration with the human body. …

Tags:Flexible Displays| Large Display Monitor| Touch| Vol 23 - Issue 33

A Flexible Display that can be Cut to Shape with Scissors

by Arthur Berman

A team of researchers headed by Masayoshi Higuchi of the Electronic Functional Macromolecules Group at the Research Center for Functional Materials within the National Institute for Materials Science (Tsukuba, Japan) are developing a flexible …

Tags:Electrochromic Displays| Flexible Displays| Vol 23 - Issue 33

HoloVit Screen Creates a “Hologram”

by Arthur Berman

HoloVit (Miami, FL) is a clear screen that is used to show what the company calls “holographic videos.” The screen works in conjunction with any one of the several electronic devices commonly belonging to …

Tags:Holographic Displays| Mobile Display Monitor| Projection Screens| Vol 23 - Issue 31

Veeso Adds Facial Expressions to VR

by Arthur Berman

In order to enhance the reality of the VR experience, some commercially available headsets include the capability of tracking the user’s head, eyes or limbs. The current generation of headset is not, however, capable …

Tags:Gaze Recognition| Virtual Reality| Vol 23 - Issue 31

Improved Gorilla Glass 5 is Now Available

by Arthur Berman

Gorilla Glass is a protective glass produced by Corning. It is widely used in mobile devices such as smartphones. How widely? During the nine years since it first became available (the last version, Gorilla …

Tags:Corning| Glass| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 29

Developments in Wireless Power Transfer Between Mobile Devices

by Arthur Berman

A team within the Bristol Interaction Group at the University of Bristol (Bristol, UK) led by Paul Worgan is developing a novel means to address the issue of limited battery life in mobile devices. …

Tags:Smartphones| Vol 23 - Issue 29| Wireless Charging

Toshiba Develops a Single Lens 2D+Depth Camera

by Arthur Berman

At the 22nd Symposium on Sensing via Image Information held this past June, Toshiba announced developments related to a new method for creating 3D images. The technique simultaneously acquires a color image and a …

Tags:3D Depth Cameras| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 27

Meet the Infinitus Prime tVR HMD

by Arthur Berman

Infinitus Global has just debuted a new virtual reality headset called the Infinitus Prime tVR. It is not a consumer product. Rather, the primary customers targeted by the company for this HMD are enterprise …

Tags:HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Virtual Reality| Vol 23 - Issue 27

Gentex LCD Rear-View Mirror Set to Debut in Cadillac

by Arthur Berman

The technology used in automobile rear view mirrors has followed a logical progression. First, it was a simple mirror, then a day/night option was added. Next, the mirror became auto dimming and other non-mirror …

Tags:Automotive| Mirror Displays| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 25

Developments in Solid-Liquid Mixtures Suggests New Applications

by Arthur Berman

Researchers within the Media Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Harvard University are exploring new means for adjusting the extent that a material scatters light. The researchers believe that such a …

Tags:Materials| MIT| Vol 23 - Issue 25