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LeEco: Today Vizio, Tomorrow the World?

by Ken Werner

When LeEco (Leshi Internet Information & Technology) exhibited at one of the press-and-analyst shows at CES 2016, it had not yet changed its name from Letv. Then, Letv showed prototypes and products that were …

PC Industry Rejects Its Salvation

by Ken Werner

Financial analyst and investment advisor Richard Windsor publishes a daily newsletter for his clients called Radio Free Mobile (www.radiofreemobile.com), which covers the mobile technology industry. In the June 6th number, he noted that the …

Tags:Convertible PCs| PC Market (Personal Computers - PCs)| Vol 23 - Issue 28

Any Interesting Display Stuff at CE Week?

by Ken Werner

CE Week is a miniature Consumer Electronics Show held each June in New York to make sure the CES brand is not forgotten between one January and the next. Okay, that may be a …

Tags:Consumer Electronics Industry| UltraHD & 4K| Vol 23 - Issue 24

Welcome to the Glass Age

by Ken Werner

Glass is essential to the display and lighting worlds, but it’s hard to make it as exciting as eye candy such as the LG 77″ UHD, HDR OLED-TV that wowed Display Week attendees as …

Quantum Dots Get Hot

by Ken Werner

At Display Week quantum-dot makers had more significant announcements and introductions than many of us expected. Its not that QDs had become boring before Display Week. After all, television market penetration was 25% heading …

A New Look for Merck/EMD

by Ken Werner

Merck KGaA Darmstadt Germany and its North American branch, EMD Performance Materials, showed off their new logos and design language at SID Display Week for the first time. The look, startlingly, is more “Age …

Tags:Cholesteric| Flexible Displays| Merck| SID Display Week 2016| Vol 23 - Issue 20

Thinking Big Thoughts

by Ken Werner

As SID Display Week approaches with frightening rapidity, we should be thinking big thoughts and getting ready to ask big questions of the experts — real and imagined — who will gather in San …

Tags:Cambrios| OLED TVs| Samsung Display| Vol 23 - Issue 18

A New O-Leap for OLED

by Ken Werner

Information Display Magazine‘s Jay Morreale loves to repeat the old bromide, “Even a broken clock is right twice a day.” In that spirit, even an Apple rumor that has proved to be wrong for …

Novasentis Gets Big-time Manufacturing Partner

by Ken Werner

At CES, I was impressed with the development-stage company Novasentis and its electro-mechanical polymer (EMP) haptic actuators. Yesterday, Novasentis and Kemet Corp. jointly announced they would collaborate on the production of film-based haptic actuators …

Tags:Haptics| Smartphones| Smartwatches| Vol 23 - Issue 14| Wearables

CLEARink Brings New Wrinkle to Electrophoretic Displays

by Ken Werner

Terry Gou finally pulled the trigger yesterday and finalized Hon Hai’s purchase of 66% of Sharp, but only after $2 billion was knocked off the price to cover previously unannounced potential liabilities. The new …

Tags:Amazon| E Ink| Electrochromic Displays| Vol 23 - Issue 12

Boogie Board Sync: More than Meets the Eye

by Ken Werner

While Kent Displays (Kent, Ohio) – a struggling developer of cholesteric liquid-crystal technology – was converting itself into a successful consumer-products company whose devices are sold under the name Boogie Board, it fell off …

Tags:Cholesteric| Interactive Displays| tablets| Vol 23 - Issue 10

OLED-TV Is Real: Sales Reached $1 Billion in 2015

by Ken Werner

One billion dollars worth of OLED TV sets were sold last year, seven times the sales in 2014, according to a recent IHS report. Ninety percent of that market belonged to LG, but Shin …

Tags:CES 2016| LG Electronics (LGE)| OLED TVs| Samsung| Vol 23 - Issue 08