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A “New” Electronic Paper Technology is Under Development

by Arthur Berman

A team of researchers led by Yusuke Komazaki in the Graduate School of Frontier Sciences at the University of Tokyo (Kashiwa, Chiba, Japan) is working to improve an e-paper technology that was invented in …

Tags:E Ink| EPD (Electrophoretic)| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 19

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The Scanify Hand-Held 3D Scanner

by Arthur Berman

The Fuel-3D (Oxfordshire, UK) 3D scanning system is based on technology developed by Professor Ron Daniel at Oxford University. The company raised over $300,000 in 2013 with a Kickstarter campaign. The scanner was originally …

Tags:3D Content Creation| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 18

Cellphones that can Reconfigure into a Bracelet Format

by Arthur Berman

During this past week, there was patent activity that indicates a continuing interest on the part of major cellphone makers in devices that can be mechanically switched from a conventional flat form to a …

Tags:Apple| LG Electronics (LGE)| Samsung| Smartphones| Vol 22 - Issue 17| Wearables

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Means Under Development to Allow use of a Cellphone for 3D Modeling

by Arthur Berman

Simon Lucey, an Associate Research Professor in the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, PA) along with colleagues Surya Singh and Kit Hamm of the University of Queensland are developing a technology that …

Tags:3D (Three Dimensions)| 3D Content Creation| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Vol 22 - Issue 15

PrintDisplay Enables Do-It-Yourself Displays with Touchscreens

by Arthur Berman

A team of computer scientists in the Department of Computer Science, Saarland University (Saarbrücken, Germany) has developed a technique that enables non-expert users to print their own custom thin film electroluminescent display – and …

Tags:EL (Electroluminescent)| Germany| Printable Display| Vol 22 - Issue 15

“Greatly Improved” Ring Zero is Now Available

by Arthur Berman

Logbar (Tokyo, Japan) is now accepting pre-orders for the latest version of its Ring Zero finger-wearable input device. The use of Ring Zero simply requires that the user put the device on their index …

Tags:Gesture Recognition| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 13| Wearables

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SolidEnergy Developing a High Energy Capacity Li-ion Battery

by Arthur Berman

SolidEnergy Systems Corp. (Waltham, MA), a start-up that spun out of MIT in 2012, is using innovative materials to develop an “anode-less” lithium-ion battery technology that allows for the storage of considerably more energy …

Tags:Batteries| Vol 22 - Issue 13

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Meet the Cuberox

by Arthur Berman

Cuberox (Vancouver, WA and Prague, Czech Republic) is developing a unique device also called Cuberox. Physically, the device is a black cube with a 16 x 16 white LED display on each of its …

Tags:LED| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 11| Wireless Charging

The Project Ara Smartphone Moves Towards Implementation

by Arthur Berman

This Display Daily article will provide some background on Google’s Project Ara modular phone project and report on recent developments at phone maker Yezz (Miami, FL) that are turning this project into a product. …

Tags:Google| Smartphones| Vol 22 - Issue 11

A Study of Distance Estimation in Augmented Reality Display Systems

by Arthur Berman

A recent article reports the results of a study to determine the ability of users to estimate distances between real and virtual objects presented by an augmented reality display system. To put this study …

Tags:3D (Three Dimensions)| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Displays| Vol 22 - Issue 10