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MakerBot announced another 20% workforce reduction last week. Despite a cult-like following among the DYI crowd (digital do-it-yourselfers), the 3D printer maker seems to be having trouble realizing the business plan it inked. This doesn’t surprise me; the real money is in inks, not in the tools. Specialty chemical firms tend to become enabling links … Read more
The quality of light from modern electronics leaves much to be desired, according to a research team at Arizona State University (ASU), which hopes to make these products mimic natural light more closely. This image of single-doped OLEDs, shining white light on to a Magic Cube, shows how OLEDs can vividly illuminate the colours of … Read more
An unnamed LG Electronics executive has apparently told the Korea Times that the company will launch OLED digital signage products next year. The official is quoted as saying, “LG Electronics will launch a full-fledged effort in the OLED digital signs business starting next year… We plan to gradually expand our boost to [a] wider product … Read more
The CEOs of Blackberry and Sony have expressed doubts about their stay in the smartphone market. Blackberry CEO John Chen has said that the company could withdraw from making smartphones altogether next year. He had previously hinted at this, but had failed to give a date (Blackberry Considers Smartphone Exit). If the Android-powered Blackberry Priv … Read more
Jaron Lanier – credited as one of the pioneers of virtual reality, now working at Microsoft Research – is working on multi-person augmented reality. The work – shown privately at Siggraph earlier this year – is not related to Microsoft’s Hololens. The project being worked on by Lanier and his team is called Comradre (pronounced … Read more
The UK’s Digital Television Group has updated the R-Book, which provides industry guidelines to Freeview aerial system installers, with a particular focus on interference mitigation. R-Book 6 also addresses DVB-T2, local TV services, TV white space and preparation for the clearance of the 700MHz band. Download it from http://tinyurl.com/nd9pm85.
Total Telecom has received a temporary licence from French broadcast regulator CSA, to trial mobile telecom services in the 700MHz band. The license is valid in the region of Lacq (Pyrénées-Atlantiques), until the 22nd January.
The US PTO has published two new Apple patents relating to OLED displays. One details a method to extend the lifespan of an OLED display – an area of concern for the company. The patent lists ways to adjust an OLED display to maintain a desired appearance, and to emit light at a desired brightness … Read more
BT is talking with Netflix about taking carriage of its UltraHD service on the latest YouView set-top box, used by BT for its TV service. Jamie Hindhaugh confirmed the discussions to Digital TV Europe, saying that the broadcaster’s UltraHD ambitions go beyond the new BT Sport UltraHD channel.
A team from Stuttgart’s Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research and LMU Munich has developed materials for ‘touchless’ touch control. In a nutshell, the electrical and optical properties the materials used change when a finger comes near, due to a sensor that reacts to sweat on human skin. The sensor uses phosphatoantimonic acid, which … Read more
Taiwanese display maker Chunghwa Picture Tubes (CPT) presented a 5.8 inch LCD display on trade fair Touch Taiwan with iXsenic® metal oxide semiconductor coated with Gen 4 slot-die coating equipment. iXsenic® is a solution-processable inorganic metal oxide semiconductor for the display industry supplied by German chemical company Evonik Industries AG. It is applied under ambient … Read more
Over 60 speakers, all experts in their respective industries, will be at Screen4All Forum to provide insight into the market’s future challenges, with an emphasis on virtual reality for the first time in France. A specific series of conferences will also be dedicated to an overview of the post-production, visual effects and 4K markets. The … Read more
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