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Fraunhofer to Show Flexible Encapsulation Films

Fraunhofer FEP will present test results for its barrier and transmission films, which have been exposed to weather for one year, at SVC 2015 (Santa Clara, USA, 25th – 30th April). Flexible electronic components are seeing increasing use in both new and existing applications. However, these components must be protected against environmental influences, such as … Read more

Canatu Introduces Super Thin Flexible Transparent Conductive Film

Canatu, a leading manufacturer of zero reflectance and flexible transparent conductive films and touch sensors, has added a new super-thin 23 µm film to its CNB (Carbon NanoBud) transparent conductive film offering targeted at super-thin devices and flexible applications. The product is the thinnest transparent conductive film on the market. The optical performance of the … Read more

PMA Research Announces Top-Selling Projectors in February

PMA Research, the worldwide market information experts on front projectors, has posted their most recent Projector Tracking Service results to the “Top-Selling Projectors” area of their website. For more than 16 years now, PMA Research has collected monthly sell-through data from leading North American projector dealers, retailers, web resellers and distributors. Their Tracking Service family … Read more

Touch Display Research Publishes Touch and Emerging Display Report

In the recently published “Touch and Emerging Display Monthly Report,” Touch Display Research Inc., an independent market research and consulting firm, analyzes flexible display technologies and market forecast, OLED, the Quantum Dot Forum 2015, Flex 2015 Conference, and flexible batteries. “I attended and presented at the ‘Quantum Dot Forum 2015? in San Francisco, and it … Read more

First iPhone 6C Images Appear Online

Alleged pictures of the case of Apple’s iPhone 6C have been leaked. Blog “Future Supplier” published the images, which show a differently-shaped cutout for the camera and speakers compared to the iPhone 5C. View the images at http://tinyurl.com/nalortg. Comment We haven’t heard of Future Supplier before, so treat this with caution. (TA)

Titan X Should be Used for UltraHD – And Only UltraHD

In a series of benchmarking tests, Hexus has determined that Nvidia’s new Titan X GPU (Titan X: A Low-Cost Answer to Titan Z) is capable of driving UltraHD content at very high frame rates (from 84fps to 111fps, on average) when used in an SLI configuration. In fact, using the card for anything other than … Read more

Nissan Leaf – is it a display?

I recently opined to a group of display industry experts that I thought “the next big thing” in the display industry was not going to be related to some incremental improvement related to high-information-content image quality or performance. It was instead going to be related to very low-information-content technology that could be inexpensively deployed across … Read more

Blu Kickstarter is Cancelled

Blu, a high-concept ‘wearable smartphone’ – which would literally curve around the wrist, and uses a 5.3″ flexible OLED display – was due to have its first products shipping in May. This seemed very ambitious for such a unique device, and Kickstarter, where the project was being funded, apparently agrees – funding was suspended last … Read more

Researchers Discover Self-Healing Nanowire Properties

Silver nanowires are one option to replace ITO as a conductive material in displays – they are lower-cost and flexible – but research has been limited due to a lack of understanding about their mechanical properties. Horacio Espinosa is a researcher at Northwestern University in the USA, and has led an examination into nanowires’ behaviour. … Read more