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New Diffuser Can Selectively Control Colours

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Scientists in two German institutes have developed a new optical diffuser that uses silicon nanoparticles that create a metasurface that can redirect specific wavelengths of light. The groups see applications in …

Tags:Germany| Metasurfaces| Optics| R&D (Research & Development)

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Appotronics Announces Litigation Against Delta Electronics

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Appotronics, the key developer of laser phosphor light source technology, has filed an action against Delta Electronics in the Guangzhou IP Court. The action is the latest in a series of …

Tags:China| Delta| Laser Phosphor Projectors| Litigation| Patents

2021 AMOLED Smartphone Revenue Reaches $397Billion

by Milos Pavlovic

What They Say DSCC reported its preliminary Q4 data for AMOLED smartphone panels which were firm, despite the strong annual growth in the preceding quarters. The year was a good one for the category …

Tags:AMOLED| Smartphone Market

Links Week Starting 3rd January 2022

by Bob Raikes

Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. Here are a few from the first part of this week. I spotted the chart below on the …

Tags:5K (5120 x 2880)| Automotive| Desktop Monitors| LG Electronics (LGE)| Market Data| Metasurfaces| Oculus VR| OLEDs| Operating Systems| Optics| Remote Controls| Roku| Samsung| STBs

Samsung and LG Display can’t agree on TV OLED panel price

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Elec reported that although Samsung is expected to buy OLED panels from LG Display, pricing has been a challenge. Samsung is said to want to position OLED as not as …

Tags:LG Displays (LGD)| OLED TVs| Pricing| Samsung

Economist Picks 22 Technologies to Watch

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Economist identified 22 ‘technologies to watch in 2022’. Only a couple (which we have listed first) involved displays, directly. VR workouts The Metaverse Solar geoengineering Heat pumps Hydrogen-powered planes Direct …

Tags:Automotive| Aviation| R&D (Research & Development)

Google Has a ‘New’ AR Project

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The New York Times ran a general article on the metaverse and AR/VR. In the article, Google is reported to be working on a new AR device after acquiring the firm …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Google| Intel

Tesla Disables Game Mode in Moving Vehicles

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Tesla has agreed to change its Passenger Play feature that previously allowed games to be played on a touchscreen when the car was in motion. The move was made after the …

Tags:Automotive| Game Playing

Panasonic, IBM, BMW and Mercedes-Benz are also canceling

by Bob Raikes

What They Say More companies have dropped out from CES in the last day or two including IBM, Panasonic, Mercedes-Benz, BMW, OnePlus, Proctor & Gamble and AMD. I also heard that Nanosys has dropped …

Tags:CES 2022

Somalytics Bullish on Capacitive Gaze Recognition

by Bob Raikes

What They Say An intriguing press release came through in advance from CES that is from a company that we don’t know called Somalytics. The firm has a new touch system based on capacitive …

Tags:Gaze Recognition| Gesture Recognition| Touch

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Hyundai Testing Robotic Display Platform

by Milos Pavlovic

What They Say Invidis spotted a release from Hyundai that included a wheeled display ‘robot’ using a multi-use platform, the Mobile Eccentric Droid (Mobed). There is a video here. What We Think Invidis couldn’t …

Tags:CES 2022| Robotics| VideoConferencing