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Flexible 7” Touch Panel with Integrated OLED Display Developed

by Tom Allen

Partnering Touch and OLED Technologies: Heraeus and the Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), Taiwan demonstrate new flexible technologies for the touch panel and display industries. Electronic materials play a key role in touch panel …

Tags:Flexible Displays| OLEDs| Touch

‘Launchpad’ is IDTechEx’s Offering to Start-Ups

by Tom Allen

IDTechEx has revealed IDTechEx Launchpad: an initiative that 10 start-up companies or education institutions will be able to use to display their prototypes at the IDTechEx Show (18th – 19th November, Santa Clara). Companies …

Tags:Back Panel| Events| IdTechEx| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 34

AUO Teams Up with 3M to Extend Eye-Catching Color to TV Brands

by Tom Allen

AU Optronics Corp. (“AUO” or the “Company”) (TAIEX: 2409; NYSE: AUO) and 3M (NYSE: MMM) today announced a new technology alliance that offers television manufacturers around the world an all-in-one solution for incorporating the …

Tags:3M (MMM)| AUO| Quantum Dots

AUO and 3M Bring Rec.2020 Closer for TV Makers

by Tom Allen

AUO and 3M have joined forces to offer a display solution to TV makers. Under the auspices of the new alliance, AUO’s Advanced LCD (ALCD) technology will be combined with 3M’s Quantum Dot Enhancement …

Tags:3M (MMM)| AUO| Large Display Monitor| LCD TVs| Quantum Dots| Vol 22 - Issue 34

Microsoft ‘Extends’ Tablet Screen With E Ink

by Tom Allen

Microsoft’s Applied Sciences Group (ASG) has been working with input devices for decades. There is a trend today towards miniaturisation, especially when it comes to portable devices. However, says the ASG, little research has …

Tags:E Ink| Keyboards| Microsoft| Mobile Display Monitor| tablets| Vol 22 - Issue 34

AOC Takes a Lesson From Philips

by Tom Allen

MMD has introduced two new gaming monitors under the AOC brand, which use the ‘SoftBlue’ technology that Philips premiered last year (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 36). SoftBlue is a low-blue-light technology. Rather than …

Tags:Blue Light| Desktop Monitors| Gamer| Large Display Monitor| MMD (AOC Philips)| Vol 22 - Issue 34

First Look at Microsoft’s Windows 10 Flagship

by Tom Allen

Press renders of Microsoft’s upcoming Lumia phones have apparently been leaked. Pictures of the ‘Cityman’ and ‘Talkman’ phones (Windows 10 Flagship Leaked) were tweeted by Evan Blass (@evleaks). They are said to be called …

Tags:Microsoft| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Vol 22 - Issue 34

Hybrids Grow While Tablet Shipments Fall

by Tom Allen

Shipments of tablet and hybrid PCs will fall 8% YoY this year, IDC has said – a significant fall from the previous -3.8% forecast. Shipments are now expected to reach 212 million, the majority …

Tags:Convertible PCs| IDC| Market Data| Mobile Display Monitor| tablets| Vol 22 - Issue 34

PC Shipments Will Fall to 2017

by Tom Allen

PC shipments will fall 8.7% YoY in 2015, and will not stabilise until 2017, says IDC. Growth will continue to decline through 2016, making it the fifth consecutive year of falling shipments. When growth …

Tags:IDC| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| PC Market (Personal Computers - PCs)| Vol 22 - Issue 34| Worldwide

TV and Monitors Slide at TPV

by Tom Allen

TPV Technology Limited includes the results of its TP Vision subsidiary, which looks after the Philips TV business in Europe, in its financial results. Sales results for TP Vision were included in the company’s …

Tags:Financial Data| Large Display Monitor| Market Shares - Brands| TPV (TP Vision)| Vol 22 - Issue 34

AV Stumpfl Revives the Bronze Age

by Tom Allen

AV Stumpfl’s control, multimedia and screen products have been used in the new Bronze Age Cinema, 400m below the ground at Austria’s Saltzwelten salt mine experience. Located in a 1,000m³ cavern, the Cinema uses …

Tags:Austria| Back Panel| Large Display Monitor| Museums & Exhibitions| Projection| Vol 22 - Issue 34

AV Stumpfl Helps Take 4K Cinema Underground and Back to Bronze Age!

by Tom Allen

Multimedia specialists, Scenomedia’s latest installation at Austria’s famous Salzwelten salt mine experience includes the new Bronze Age Cinema located 400 metres below the Earth’s surface in natural Dachstein limestone bedrock of the Hallstatt Mountain …

Tags:Austria| Projection