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Samsung Patent Depicts a Rollable, Camera-Equipped Smartwatch

by Bob Raikes

What They Say LetsGoDigital in the Netherlands has reported on a patent awarded to Samsung for a rollable watch that extends a circular shape to an oval under motor control. A camera would be …

Tags:Patents| Rollable Devices| Rollable Displays| Samsung| Smartwatches

Garmin To Show New Smartwatches at CES

by Bob Raikes

What They Say A German website, Winfuture, has carried leaked images of new Garmin smartwatches that are expected at CES. The Epix Gen 2 has a round display and has sensors including a blood …

Tags:CES 2022| E Ink| Garmin| OLEDs| Smartwatches

PlayNitride showcasing microLED display with PM driver and Looking for IPO

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Digitimes reported that PlayNitride has developed a 1.58″ microLED display with a passive matrix driver IC developed with Solomon Systech (International) that can support up to 256 x 256 resolution (up …

Tags:Financial Data| MicroLED| Reorganisation & Restructuring

Virgin Responds to Sky Glass with a Dongle

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Sunday Times interviewed Virgin Media O2 CEO Lutz Schüler who sees a challenge to the new business as he tries to turn round Virgin’s poor reputation for customer service. He …

Tags:Sky| Streaming Video| TVs (TV Sets)| Virgin Media

More Experiences of UltraHD at Euro 2020

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The UltraHD Forum issued a newsletter that focused on the experiences of some of its members with the Euro 2020 soccer tournament. We have previously covered some of the feedback from …

Tags:HDR - High Dynamic Range| Sports and Stadiums| UltraHD & 4K

Technicolor Highlights Continuing HDR & SDR Challenges

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Technicolor published a 20 minute discussion between Guy Ducos of Advanced HDR by Technicolor and Guillaume Arthuis of BBright, a Rennes, France-based maker of tools for broadcasters. Arthuis said that the …

Tags:HDR - High Dynamic Range| Technicolor

Nio AR Glasses Designed for Automotive Use

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Nio, a Chinese electric car start-up is developing custom AR glasses, made by Nreal for use in its vehicles. The company also said that it has developed VR glasses with Nolo, …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Automotive| OLEDs| Virtual Reality

Nreal Glasses Reviewed

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The BBC reviewed the latest Nreal Light AR glasses and found them a bit heavy and disliked the need to use a tethered Android smartphone. The reviewer found they sat quite …

Tags:Augmented Reality| BBC| Testing

Gurman wants an Apple ‘Echo Show 15’ and Calls for a New Monitor

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman said in his subscription only Power On newsletter that he expects Apple to launch a new desktop monitor to go with new MacBook Pro systems that could be …

Tags:Amazon| Apple| Desktop Monitors| Interactive Displays| tablets

Roku Says ITC Ruling Won’t Harm its Imports

by Bob Raikes

What They Say We reported on a release (Roku & UEI Slug it Out over Patents) by Universal Electronics last week that claimed success in a patent dispute with Roku and which, it said, …

Tags:Litigation| Patents| Roku

Links 7th 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 last day or so! As you can imagine with the ‘firehose of …

Links 6th 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 last day or so! As you can imagine with the ‘firehose of …