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Means to Integrate a Touch ID Sensor into a Touchscreen Display

by Arthur Berman

The subject of this Display Daily article is a technology under development at Apple and in the news during the past few days. To put this development interest into context, recall that the iPhone …

Tags:Apple| Fingerprint Recognition| Patents| Smartphones| Vol 22 - Issue 09

Introducing the Atheer Augmented Reality Glasses

by Arthur Berman

Atheer Labs (Mountain View, CA) has developed an interactive, 3D, augmented reality “platform” which combines immersive 3D augmented reality with “natural” gesture-based interaction. The so-called Atheer AiR platform consists of a virtual reality user …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 08| Wearables

The W3D is a Game Console/Smartphone Hybrid

by Arthur Berman

The W3D, developed by Suzhou Snail Digital Technology Co. Ltd.(Suzhou, China), was demonstrated at the recent CES in Las Vegas. At first glance, the device looks a lot like the Sony PlayStation Vita. The …

Tags:Android| Autostereo 3D| Game Controllers| Smartphones| Vol 22 - Issue 07

Recent Report Studies User Experience with Home Use of 3D TV

by Arthur Berman

Although stereoscopic 3D (S3D) television is now widely available in the home, little information has been published on some aspects of viewer use and experience. A recent article addresses this issue. The study was …

Tags:3D TV| Large Display Monitor| TV Set Market| Vol 22 - Issue 05

Immersis Extends the Gaming Environment

by Arthur Berman

Based on technology developed by Catopsys (Paris, France), the Immersis system can project imagery onto the area surrounding a TV. Doing so is intended to enhance the extent of the user’s immersion in a …

Tags:3D Projection| Vol 22 - Issue 05

Cicret: Too Good to be True?

by Arthur Berman

Type Cicret bracelet into your Web browser and it will produce lots of hits. Some of these lead to very polished videos that, by now, have been viewed by millions of people. One such …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 04| Wearables

Touch Panels Just Keep Getting Better

by Arthur Berman

The industry has seen the capabilities of Multi-touch Projected Capacitive Touch (MPCT) panels improve quite considerably during the past few years.  Nonetheless, it was a recent product press release by Itron that made clear to me just how far …

Tags:Pcap (Procap)| Vol 22 - Issue 03

A New Rewriteable “Paper” Technology

by Arthur Berman

A team in the Department of Chemistry at the University of California (Riverside, CA) lead by Wenshou Wang is developing rewriteable paper. It is based on the use of color-switching dyes and an ultra violet light to …

Tags:ePaper| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor

The Prynt Picture Printer Turns a Smartphone into a Polaroid Camera

by Arthur Berman

Since last January, start-up hardware company Prynt SAS (Paris, France) has been working to develop a product that can turn a smartphone into the modern day equivalent of a Polaroid camera. The device consists …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Vol 21 - Issue 50

Progress Reported on Optically Rewritable LCD Technology

by Arthur Berman

Technology – A new Optical Rewritable Liquid Crystal Display (ORWLCD) technology is under development by a team in the Center for Display Research at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.  ORWLCD is based on a …

Tags:LCD displays| R&D (Research & Development)| Stereo 3D| Vol 21 - Issue 50