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Transparent Flexible Conductors Proliferate at Display Week

You could make a case for Transparent Flexible Conductors (TFCs) based on thinness, lightweight and ruggedness even when they are being applied to displays with rigid substrates. Now that flexible displays are entering the marketplace in significant numbers, the case becomes even stronger. TFCs compete on a combination of cost (low is good), sheet resistance … Read more

Touch and Haptics Innovations in 2015 SID iZone

Two developers caught my attention during my visit to the 2015 SID Display Week Innovation Zone (iZone). Redux Technologies and TouchNetix were exhibiting new embedded haptics and touch sensor products, respectively. The Redux Embedded Haptics Controller was being demonstrated on the firm’s tabletop display in the iZone. Redux Labs showed its tablet-sized touchscreen demonstrator (photo … Read more

Wearable Software Ecosystem: Diversity or Monoculture

The 2015 SID Display Week Wearable-Flexible Market Focus Conference hosted a session and panel discussion on Software for Wearables with speakers from Mozilla, Intel, and Runtastic. At this point in the penultimate session of the Wearables-Flexible Conference, I found that I was really happy to have dedicated so much time (a full day) and attention … Read more

Philips Partners with Optoma to Showcase New Ground-Breaking ColorSpark HLD LED Technology

Technology leader, Philips, and award-winning projector manufacturer, Optoma, will be showcasing Philips new ColorSpark High Lumen Density (HLD) LED projection technology on the Optoma booth 3612 at InfoComm 2015. Visitors to the event on 17-19 June in Orlando, Florida, will be among the first to see this new ground-breaking projection technology in action. Justin Halls, … Read more

Challenges Remain, but Some Display Jobs are Now Done

This week, we have been very busy following up the SID show and we are just finalising the report as I write this article. Now I’m away from it, it’s getting clearer what the big trends were. We saw some stunning high resolution displays, at over 900 ppi at the extreme. So, to me, this … Read more

Christie Shows Customers World’s Best Solutions at InfoComm 2015

Christie, the integrated visual systems leader, is showcasing its wealth of knowledge and trusted technology at InfoComm 2015, taking place June 17-19 at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Florida. Offering the widest range of visual display solutions in the industry, Christie combines the highest quality with the lowest cost of ownership to deliver … Read more

Barco Encourages Miami to Drink Up

Barco helped Anheuser-Busch launch its new ‘Oculto’ beer last month, with a projection mapped onto the entire front façade of the Intercontinental Hotel in Miami. Integrated Visions animated the imagery to create the mapping projection, which featured disassembling blocks, swirling ‘smoke’, a tracking spotlight, revolving letters and a full-length product image. Nine of Barco’s HDF-W26 … Read more

Electrochromic Tech Enables Tunable Windows

Scientists from the University of Cincinnati claim to have developed a smart window technology that goes way beyond simple tinting. The group say that users can have control over brightness, colour temperature and opacity of the glass. Working with researchers from HP, Merck and National Taiwan University, the team worked on adapting electrochromic technology. The … Read more

Display Glass at SID Display Week 2015 – Du Pont/Kateeva to Print OLEDs?

Without new materials and new manufacturing processes, display evolution is just – for the most part – evolutionary. On the show floor at Display Week, we saw three major categories of new and evolving materials: display glass, flexible transparent conductors, and quantum-dot products. In this article, let’s talk about glass. The three leading manufacturers of … Read more

BenQ Pushes Touch to 79 Inch

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Much of what was new for the US at Infocomm from BenQ had already been seen by us at ISE earlier this year, which disappointed staff! However, there was a bit more information and a new 79″ UltraHD display (RP790 – BenQ Clear in B2B Push), which has infrared touch and will start to ship … Read more

Kickstarter Backing proves Consumers’ Desire for Holograms

An interactive holographic display has fired imaginations of Kickstarter backers (http://tinyurl.com/nbew7cr), raising more than CAD200,000 ($160,000) for development – more than $120,000 past the original goal, with almost a month still to go at the time of writing. ‘Holus’ is billed as a tabletop holographic display. It is able to convert ‘any’ digital content – … Read more