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For QuirkLogic, 2018 is the Ramp-up Year

by Ken Werner

QuirkLogic’s 42″ E Ink-based Quilla whiteboard is the world’s largest battery powered display, said company CEO Nashir Samanani when we met for an interview at CES. But Samanani objected to my use of the …

Tags:CES 2018| E Ink| Interactive Displays| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 25 - Issue 02

E Ink Spreads Its Reflective Wings

by Ken Werner

Although Amazon does not make sales numbers of its Kindle eReaders public, and it is fashionable in some quarters to announce the death of eBooks, it seems as if sales of Kindles (by far …

Tags:CES 2018| E Ink| EPD (Electrophoretic)| Flexible Displays| Mobile Display Monitor| Notebooks| Vol 25 - Issue 02

Cars, Yes; Display Technology, Not So Much

by Ken Werner

We found interesting automotive display technology at Tier 1 suppliers and display companies such as LG Display, but there was surprisingly little in the way of display technolology to be seen at the North …

Tags:Automotive| CES 2018| Flexible Displays| LG Displays (LGD)| Mobile Display Monitor| OLEDs| Vol 25 - Issue 02

At CES 2018, Samsung Strikes Back

by Ken Werner

A year ago, at CES 2017, Samsung introduced its Q Series of super-premium quantum-dot-enhanced LCD-TVs. The company called the quantum-dot technology used in this series QLED, and gave the sets prices that were comparable …

Tags:LG Displays (LGD)| OLED Fabs| Quantum Dots| Samsung| Vol 25 - Issue 02

Let’s Agree Not To Report Things Before They Happen

by Ken Werner

It was, I believe, early on September 18, 1961, when I remember reading a small article by a stringer in the morning edition of a distinguished U.S. newspaper. The below-the-fold* (as I remember it) …

Tags:CES 2018| Vol 25 - Issue 01

Start-ups Fail Because Founders are Inept

by Ken Werner

In late September CB Research published a report entitled “The Top 20 Reasons Startups Fail.” The top reason is shocking, but if you’re familiar with start-up creation, and particularly with the creation of technology-based …

Tags:Investment| Reorganisation & Restructuring| Vol 24 - Issue 48

Beginning of the End for the Color Matrix Filter?

by Ken Werner

On Tuesday December 5, Nanosys announced it is collaborating with ink-maker DIC Global to develop quantum-dot inks for ink-jet printing of color converters. The color converters will be used to replace the color matrix …

Tags:LCD displays| Quantum Dots| Vol 24 - Issue 46

Smarter Smart Watches Are Finally Selling…

by Ken Werner

For years, smartwatches seemed like a solution for no detectable problem. After all, they did nothing your smartphone couldn’t do, and what they did do was often not very convenient for the user. And …

Tags:Apple| OLEDs| Samsung| Smartwatches| Vol 24 - Issue 44

LG Shows Off Its Commercial Displays and Systems

by Ken Werner

LG Business Solutions held its New York City Roadshow on November 2 in an event venue on 10th Avenue near 31st Street. The area is called Hudson Yards for the railroad yards that dominated …

Tags:Flexible Displays| LED| LG Electronics (LGE)| OLEDs| Vol 24 - Issue 42

Nab a Monitor at NAB

by Ken Werner

The National Association of Broadcasters’ annual New York meeting (NAB Show NY), held this year October 18-19 at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York, is actually not the most obvious show to …

Tags:Broadcast Monitors| Display Calibration| Small Pixel Pitch LED SPP| Vol 24 - Issue 40

2017 SID Vehicle Displays Exhibition

by Ken Werner

The exhibition at the 2017 Vehicle Displays and Interfaces Sympsium, held Sept. 26 and 27, 2017 in Livonia, Michigan, consisted of 73 tabletops, up from 61 last year. Given the growth of symposium, the …

Tags:Automotive| Mobile Display Monitor| OLEDs| SID - Vehicle Displays 2017| Small Medium LCDs| Vol 24 - Issue 38

Does C3Nano Have the Technology that Will Kill ITO?

by Ken Werner

The last time we took a serious look at technologies for replacing ITO in transparent conductors, Cambrios was the leading purveyor of silver nanowires (AgNWs). Cambrios was battling metal mesh technology to see who …

Tags:ITO Replacement| Silver Nanowire| Vol 24 - Issue 38