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A new consumer version of ODG (Osterhout Design Group) augmented reality technology was revealed at last week’s CES show in Las Vegas with the promise of a landmark styling in the what’s-old-is-new-again approach to its latest technology. The company said it turned to perhaps the most popular sunglass design in history, the RayBan Wayfarer for … Read more
A team in the Department of Chemistry at the University of California (Riverside, CA) lead by Wenshou Wang is developing rewriteable paper. It is based on the use of color-switching dyes and an ultra violet light to write an image on a physical medium. At this time, the medium is either a glass or plastic film. The old … Read more
On Christmas Eve, Primeview USA Inc. (New York, NY) announced it was introducing an OLED monitor targeting industrial applications. The product is being introduced in partnership with LG Display (LGD) and, of course, uses LGD glass. Primeview PRV55OLED industrial display The initial product is a 55” industrial display, model number PRV55OLED, which will be available for delivery in Q1 … Read more
MediaTek announces its collaboration with Google on the world's first Ultra HD TV platform solution for Android TV — made possible through Google's Android TV software integration on MediaTek's MT5595 System on Chip (SoC) hardware. Consumers can watch movies and shows from Google Play, stream their favorite app, and play Android games on their Ultra … Read more
After a year of weak growth for the LCD TV industry in 2013, worldwide shipment growth has accelerated every quarter in 2014, with total units rising more than 10% in Q3’14. The latest Quarterly Global TV Shipment and Forecast Report from DisplaySearch, now part of IHS Inc. (NYSE: IHS), has raised the global forecast for … Read more
Worldwide semiconductor revenue totaled $339.8 billion in 2014, a 7.9 percent increase from 2013 revenue of $315 billion, according to preliminary results by Gartner, Inc. The top 25 semiconductor vendors' combined revenue increased 11.7 percent, which was more than the overall industry's growth. The top 25 vendors accounted for 72.1 percent of total market revenue, … Read more
After a troubled year in 2014, the global tablet market is not returning to the levels of growth seen in the last four years as demand for tablets will continue to be slow in 2015. Gartner, Inc. estimates that worldwide tablet sales will reach 233 million units in 2015, an 8 percent increase from 2014. … Read more
Flatfrog Laboratories is ramping up production of its InGlass touch modules for AIO PCs, which will be used by an unnamed ‘top tier’ OEM in North America. Shipments began in December. The first AIO PCs with the modules are expected to go on sale in Q1.
At BETT, Casio was launching the Core – a new laser-LED hybrid projector that is positioned for mass-market adoption. As a solid-state model, the Core has a long lifetime, with no filters or lamps to be changed. Power consumption is also lower than lamp-based models. The projector can be turned on and off in around … Read more
Xiaomi reported that it more than doubled its revenue last year, with pre-tax sales rising to almost $12 billion. The company’s mobile phone sales were 227% higher than the previous year, reaching 61.1 million handsets. In Q3 Xiaomi was ranked third in the global smartphone market behind Samsung and Apple and the company has said … Read more
Asian sources claim that Foxconn is developing flexible OLED panel technology and expects to send out 5″ samples in 2016. Reports from Japanese media say that the panels will be used on smartphones and wearables. Low-volume shipments will also begin next year. The sources say that the panels will have 400ppi and be produced with … Read more
The value of LED backlighting production will fall by about 10% this year, say Taiwanese LED makers, as TV and tablet production value falls. Both smartphones and TVs will represent about 30% of production value. UltraHD TVs require between 40% and 50% more LED chips than FullHD models. Meanwhile, as 5″ becomes the mainstream smartphone … Read more
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