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Smartkem Assists With OTFT Development

Smartkem, a UK-based developer of organic backplanes for flexible displays, has signed an agreement with the Centre for Process Innovation, to support customers’ prototype developments using Smartkem’s ‘Tru-Flex’ products. The agreement will last for three years. Smartkem opened a new OTFT fabrication facility in Manchester at the end of 2014, helping its partners to co-develop … Read more

Vivitek Supports Finger-Touch

Vivitek’s DH758USTiR is a specially-developed DLP projector for education. It is a UST model and features interactivity, using IR pens. Finger touch is supported through use of the DT01 laser curtain module. Vivitek’s Novoconnect collaboration tool enables teachers to display work from up to four students’ mobile devices using the projector. Resolution is 1920 x … Read more

Sainsbury’s Trialling Digital Pricing Display

Sainsburys digital price labels

UK supermarket chain Sainsbury’s is trailling a new digital pricing display to reduce the use of paper and automatically update prices. The retailer has installed the displays in its Shoreditch Old Street Local store in London and said the trial would give the company useful insights before deciding whether to introduce it to other stores. … Read more

MDM Product Roundup – Vol 22 No 9

Asian sources have said that three major notebook vendors – Dell, HP and Lenovo – are expected to release models with on-cell touch in the first half of this year. The sources said that 14″ and 15″ products would be released. On-cell was chosen over one-glass-solution, due to higher yields and lower prices. Last week … Read more

Repairs Programme Launched for Faulty Macbooks

Apple has launched a repair service for Macbook Pro notebooks affected by video issues. These include distorted video, no image and unexpected system restarts, and affect 15″ and 17″ products sold between February 2011 and December 2013 (to see a list of affected models, visit http://tinyurl.com/q57fdnt). Repairs are now available worldwide, from both Apple and … Read more

LDM Product Roundup – Vol 22 09

Acer‘s H7550ST, introduced at CES (Acer Attempts to Kickstart Notebook Innovation), is now available in Europe. The projector costs €840. Asian sources have said that three major notebook vendors – Dell, HP and Lenovo – are expected to release models with on-cell touch in the first half of this year. The sources said that 14″ … Read more

Samsung to Acquire LoopPay

Samsung Electronics is to acquire LoopPay, a mobile wallet solutions provider that turns magnetic stripe readers into secure, contactless receivers. Under the terms of the deal, LoopPay will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of Samsung and the company founders, Will Graylin and George Wallner, will work closely with Samsung’s mobile division. The acquisition will enable Samsung … Read more

Means to Integrate a Touch ID Sensor into a Touchscreen Display

The subject of this Display Daily article is a technology under development at Apple and in the news during the past few days. To put this development interest into context, recall that the iPhone has a fairly large bezel located below the display that is occupied by a circular home button/touch ID fingerprint sensor. If … Read more

FlexEnable, Merck and Partners Energize Interest in Plastic LCD Technology

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In a project co-funded by the seventh Framework Program of the European Union, FlexEnable, Merck and several other partners have now demonstrated the world’s first plastic LCD with active-matrix in-plane switching (IPS). It uses FlexEnable’s Organic Thin Film Transistor (OTFT) array as well as liquid crystal (LC) and organic semiconductor materials from Merck. While the … Read more

Apple Receives Patent for Near to Eye Display Application

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The virtual reality market has seen quite a few introductions of smartglasses that allow the user to incorporate a smartphone as the main display for the headset. Such headsets typically come at a lower price tag and less predictable performance as the smartphone display used influences the optical as well as computing performance. Now Apple … Read more

Public Displays in Line with Forecast in Q4

European Public Display growth was up by 16.6% on an annual basis in Q4 with 13% growth from Q3, according to the DisplayCast Public Display service from Meko. “We have seen a change in the seasonality of the European market as it has developed”, said Bob Raikes, principal analyst for the service. “For the last … Read more