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Fossil’s First Touchscreen Watch Powered by Antroid Wear™ on Sale This Week

It’s time to meet Q Founder, the newest addition to Fossil’s connected accessories line. Engineered with Intel® Innovation and powered by Android Wear, Q Founder tracks your activity, connects to your favorite apps, alerts you of your notifications and has customizable digital watch faces that are sure to fit your style. With its stunning touchscreen … Read more

Panasonic Lowers Prices for Shopping Season

Earlier this year, Panasonic showed its complete line-up of UltraHD TVs at CES 2015, and announced more information about them in February (Panasonic Goes All-Out With UltraHD). At the time, we heard about an entry-level range, but nothing more has been said about it until now. Panasonic is introducing its CX Series in time for … Read more

Large and Narrow Bezel Units Boost US LFD Market

PMA has published its data on sales of large-format (32″+) displays in the USA during October. The results showed strong YoY gains, with 70″+ and ultra-narrow bezel models being particularly popular. Professional unit sales rose 26% YoY in October, while revenues climbed 45%. 70″+ units had a new record market share of 10% amongst these … Read more

Heraeus and ITRI Collaborate on Touch Screens

Heraeus and Taiwan’s Industrial Technolgy Research Institute (ITRI) have been working together for several years. Their work has been focused on touch screens, using Heraeus’ Clevios conductive polymer-based touch panels (ITRI and Heraeus Scale Non-ITO Touch, High Resolutions Rule Touch Taiwan). The organisations have now collaborated to develop an improved mass-manufacturing process for the Clevios-based … Read more

Quantum Materials Gets Some Respect

It’s easy to miss, but on page 11 of Quantum Materials Corp’s latest quarterly report you can, if you choose, find “Note 6” entitled “Deferred Revenue.” But I won’t make you look. Here’s the note: “During the three months ended September 30, 2015, the Company recorded $225,000 of deferred revenue. This represents full payment pursuant … Read more

UoO Spins Off Display Technology

The University of Oxford has spun out one of its developments to be handled by a new company, Bodle Technologies. The work is based on phase change materials, which change their state in response to an external stimulus – such as an electrical charge. We covered the work last year ( ‘Nano-Pixels’ Promise Low-Power, High-Res … Read more

Fossil Adds Android

Fossil has released the smartwatch that it previewed at New York Fashion Week earlier this year (Fossil Enters Smartwatch Market With Android). The Q Founder watch is a touchscreen model running Android Wear. It features various traditional smartwatch functions, such as notification alerts and activity tracking. It is supplied with a wireless charging base, and … Read more

E Ink Has Good Q3

E Ink reported on their third quarter results, which showed an improvement to its balance sheet in basically all categories, as well as higher assets and lower liabilities. Sales, gross profit and net income are all improving not only quarter over quarter but also year over year. This looks good for any investor looking at … Read more

PlayStation®4 (PS4™) Sales Surpass 30.2 Million Units Worldwide

Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. (SCE) today announced that the PlayStation®4 (PS4™) computer entertainment system has cumulatively sold through more than 30.2 million units*1 worldwide as of November 22. PS4 continues to demonstrate the fastest and strongest growth in PlayStation® hardware history. PS4 is a uniform system on which gamers everywhere can enjoy the same high-quality … Read more