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“Samurai Smartphone Parade” Video: Walking While Looking at Smartphone Displays is Dangerous Even in the Age of the Samurai

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NTT DOCOMO, Inc. (hereinafter DoCoMo) released a unique awareness-raising video, “Samurai Smartphone Parade” on its official YouTube channel on December 1 as part of its campaign to prevent accidents caused by those walking while looking at their smartphone displays and improve their manners. There are a growing number of accidents involving people walking while looking … Read more

Wearable Emphasis is on SmartWatches and Fitness

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Printed Electronics 2015 (Santa Clara, CA, November 17-20) offered several sessions organized around the overall topic of Wearable Technology. The sessions and presentations were wide ranging in their scope and covered technologies including stretchable and textile electronics, flexible sensors, advanced microcontrollers for wearables, thin and flexible energy storage, wireless power, manufacturing for wearable electronics, smart … Read more

SMI Eye Tracking and WorldViz Make Researchers Turn to Virtual Reality

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SensoMotoric Instruments (SMI) and WorldViz announce a plug and play integration of their leading Eye Tracking and VR technologies. With the Vizard VR Software, researchers and professionals can easily design immersive experiments and replicate real-life training scenarios in virtual reality, while SMI HMD Eye Tracking reveals how users interact with the digital world. TheSMI/WorldViz toolkit … Read more

Displays Front & Center at Printed Electronics

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Displays and particularly flexible displays were front and center at Printed Electronics 2015 (Santa Clara, CA, November 17-20) with presentations from relative newcomer Royole Corporation and Kateeva. Bill Liu, CEO Royole Corporation, delivered a presentation titled “Exploring the Future of Information Display: Royole’s Technologies in Flexible and Wearable Electronics”. This was my first opportunity to … Read more

End User Viewpoints Suggest Early Days for Printed Electronics

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Printed Electronics 2015 (Santa Clara, CA, November 17-20) again this year included an End User Insight Panel with panelists from Coca Cola, Colgate-Palmolive, and Bayer HealthCare. As in last year’s panel discussion, representatives with direct involvement in applications of printed electronics from large multinational firms were asked to provide their views on how the printed … Read more

Konica-Minolta Reaches Record OLED Output

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Konica Minolta speaker, Takeshi Hakii OLED Unit, Advanced Layers Business Unit Manager, spoke on “Recent Progress in Flexible OLED Lighting Panels” at Printed Electronics 2015 (Santa Clara, CA, November 17-20). The Konica Minolta presentation was a useful indicator of recent progress made in developing materials and structures for OLEDs with improved performance. Takeshi Hakii described … Read more

OLED Lighting Shines at Printed Electronics 2015

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The 2015 Printed Electronics Conference (Santa Clara, CA, November 17-20) session on Opportunities in the Lighting Industry included speakers from Acuity Brands, Konica Minolta and Universal Display. While each of these three firms represents a different level in the OLED supply chain (Acuity Brands – light fixtures/luminaires, Konica Minolta – OLED lighting panels, Universal Display … Read more

Osram talks LEDs and OLEDs and NthDegree Exhibits Printed LEDs

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The 2015 Printed Electronics Conference (Santa Clara, CA, November 17-20) included a session on “Opportunities in the Lighting Industry“. The session primarily addressed OLEDs although Osram also addressed inorganic LED lighting and presented on Integrating Printed Electronics in the Lighting Industry. Also, in an infrequent trade show appearance, NthDegree Technologies exhibited its printed inorganic LEDs … Read more

And Finally… – Vol 22 No 48

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The samurai: master warriors; fearless fighters; and, according to NTT Docomo, absolute rulers of Candy Crush. A new video, aiming to raise awareness of the risks of texting while walking, has some useful information – but the real highlight comes in watching men dressed in traditional samurai training robes fall over each other, lose their … Read more

Printed Electronics are Becoming Ubiquitous and Growing

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Three additional opening cornerstone presentations at the 2015 Printed Electronics Conference (Santa Clara, CA, November 17-20), provided insight into the nascent but growing pervasiveness of printed electronics. The speakers for the three presentations were from the US Olympic Committee, Hewlett-Packard, and Qualcomm. Mounir Zok, Senior Sports Technologist for the United States Olympic Committee, presented “Wearable … Read more

The new Toshiba TD-E2 Series – engaging content 16 hours a day, seven days a week in Full HD clarity

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Toshiba Europe GmbH today announces its next generation TD-E2 Series consisting of four new business display models benefitting from Full HD (1920 x 1080) resolution and 16/7 operation. Available in sizes up to 165 cm (65”), the new TD-E2 Series offers connectivity and flexibility to make it ideally suited for retail, hospitality and corporate environments. … Read more

Printed Electronics Solving Brand and Commercial Problems

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Raghu Das, CEO of IDTechEx the organizers of the 2015 Printed Electronics Conference (Santa Clara, CA, November 17-20), delivered an opening keynote at the event, titled “Printed Electronics: Successes, Trends and Money”. In structuring his presentation, Das identified commercial problems for which printed electronics offer and are addressing solutions. The problems he identified spanned the … Read more

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