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Margaret Kohin, SVP, Business Development, eMagin Corporation was invited to present a Special Wearables Address at the Wearable-Flexible Market Focus Conference organized by IHS at SID’s 2015 Display Week. Kohin’s address was unique at the SID Wearables Conference in that it was the only presentation to address head mounted displays (HMDs) and applications to products … Read more
John Brodd is CEO of Cima Nanotech which is making materials for ITO replacement. There are around 70 staff in the company, mostly in China. Procap touch technology is great, but runs out of performance at around 32″ diagonal when ITO is used to make the patterns. Cima developed Santé material which is around 15 … Read more
The next speaker was Fariba Danesh from glo, which is a VC-backed company developing LED products using nanotechnology. Although founded in Lund, Sweden, the company moved to Silicon Valley to further develop. Danesh said that if you can get really good RGB colours, this helps with very many issues that face display makers. Glo uses … Read more
Boo Nilsson is from CBrite which develops new backplane technologies. The company is based in Santa Barbara and has offices in Taiwan and China. The company has technology that is competitive with IGZO and also in some cases with LTPS as it has better performance. The company has been running for ten years so far. … Read more
The PD1611 is a 15.6″ pen display from ViewSonic, aiming to support eSignatures, note-taking and drawings on the A4-sized screen. ViewSonic uses Electromagnetic Resonance Pen technology on the touch screen, supporting 2,048 levels of sensitivity; 5,080 line-per-inch density; and up to 10mm pen hover capability. The pen is battery-free and accurate to within 0.5mm. The … Read more
The next speaker was Paul Travers, President and CEO of Vuzix, which we have covered a lot in recent months. Vuzix started in 1997 and has been a partner for Kopin for a long time. It is 24% owned by Intel. It was approached by the US government to create HMDs for special forces to … Read more
Microsoft’s flagship large-format Windows 10 device, the Surface Hub (Microsoft Announces Surface Hub as a Collaborative Display Tool), is being ‘launched’ worldwide next month. Surface Hub is a single collaborative display, with an internal PC running Windows 10. It features 100-point touch (fingers and pen); speakers; dual 1920 x 1080 front-facing cameras; a four-element microphone … Read more
A study by ROI Team, commissioned by Panasonic, has found that laser projection is now more cost-effective than traditional lamp-based technology. The performance of Panasonic’s PT-RZ670 laser projector was evaluated against a range of common lamp-based models. Three vertical markets were examined: museums and galleries; higher education; and rental and staging. It was found that … Read more
In a large rollout, Sony has introduced 10 new displays to its line of Bravia Professional models: five UltraHD and five Full HD. As a B2B market first, says the company, each display supports Android and Google Cast, for wireless communication with Android and iOS devices and laptops (excludes 40″ and 48″ Full HD units). … Read more
Kramer will introduce its newest ProScale™ Presentation Digital Scaler/Switcher at InfoComm 2015. The Kramer VP-444 features 12 inputs with fast and clean fade-thru-black switching. The cost-effective VP-444 is designed for large classrooms, conference rooms and hotel event spaces and includes 10 HDMI and two computer graphics video inputs. The VP-444 offers unbalanced stereo inputs for … Read more
Hannstar Display’s May sales fell 9.6% from the previous month and 35.5% from May 2014 to NT$1.3 billion ($42 million), bringing sales for the year to date to NT$8.1 billion ($262 million), 16.6% lower year on year. Shipments of small and medium sized panels decreased by 10.3% month on month to 20.8 million units, while … Read more
IEE, the enhanced display experts, has re-organized their industrial AMLCD product line into three new segments to address the needs of multiple vertical markets. These displays start with a variety of screen sizes, resolutions and brightness, and let customers modify or add features such as touch screens, optical bonding, bezel keys and custom enclosures, based … Read more
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