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NEG’s 30µm Glass Feels Like Plastic

The world’s thinnest glass plate has apparently been developed by Japan’s Nippon Electric Glass (NEG). ‘G-Leaf’ is 30µm thick and can be used as a substrate for flexible displays. NEG demonstrated a flexible OLED that is 90µm thick, sandwiched between two G-Leaf sheets, at Ceatec earlier this month. G-Leaf’s plates are manufactured using an overflow … Read more

Unprecedented Picture Clarity has Arrived on Amazon Instant Video

4k – Amazon today announced that Prime members and all customers can now instantly enjoy blockbuster movies, hit TV shows and Amazon Original Series, in Ultra HD picture quality—a premium resolution that has four times the number of pixels as standard full HD. Ultra HD movies and TV shows are accessible through the Amazon Instant … Read more

93% Are Impressed With Ultra HD TVs says Strategy Analytics

4K – Consumer awareness of Ultra HD or 4K TV is growing steadily, and 93 percent of those who have seen the technology found it extremely or somewhat impressive.  These are some of the key findings from the latest wave of Strategy Analytics’ ConsumerMetrix survey, which conducted online interviews with 2001 US participants in November 2014. The … Read more

Scalable and MetaVR Describe Design Wins

Simulation & Training – The US Army recently purchased 300 new licenses of MetaVR visuals for embedded training in its Universal Ground Control Stations and for Institutional Mission Simulators.  The Army uses MetaVR Virtual Reality Scene Generator (VRSG) for simulated unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) camera payload video for Shadow, Grey Eagle, Aerosonde and Hunter unmanned aerial … Read more

Inflection Points in the TV and Notebook Markets

TV – Analysts are always looking for inflection points – moments when lines on charts start to move in different directions.I spotted a couple in the last week. The Asus NX500 uses QDs to deliver a wide colour gamut A small one, probably, was the first notebook to use Quantum Dots, the Asus NX500. A prototype of … Read more

CPT’s September Revenue Down 13% YoY

Chunghwa Picture Tubes (CPT) posted a 4.2% decline in sales last month to NT$4.4 billion ($144.5 million), which was 12.9% lower than September 2013. Sales from January to September reached NT$42.2 billion ($1.4 billion), down 2.3% from the same period of last year. CPT shipped 135,000 large panels, up 3.1% from August but down 2.2% … Read more

Samsung Gear VR Innovator Edition Now Available in United States

Wearables – Samsung Telecommunications America, LLC (Samsung) announced that the Samsung Gear™ VR Innovator Edition powered by Oculus is now available in the U.S. Using the Galaxy Note® 4, Gear VR Innovator Edition gives content creators and VR enthusiasts a chance to get their hands on the first low persistence virtual reality experience powered by … Read more

More Than 50% of Users Will Use a Tablet or Smartphone First for All Online Activities by 2018

Market Intelligence – Mobile devices are increasingly becoming the first go-to device for communications and content consumption, according to Gartner, Inc. In the emerging economies, users are adopting smartphones as their exclusive mobile devices while in developed economies, multi-device households are becoming the norm, with tablets growing at the fastest rate of any computing device. … Read more

STEM and 3D

3D in Education – 3D continues to be a topic of interest at national and regional STEM conferences. (STEM is an acronym for [applied] science, technology, engineering and math.) On that note, I recently attended the recent STEMtech 2014 conference in Denver (CO) and my hopes for latching onto some suitable educational 3D content and happenings were not disappointed.  … Read more

Hardware and Standards Wrestle in the Marketplace

Broadcast & Distribution – Hardware manufacturers and standards developers have often clashed when it comes to inter-compatibility and longevity of solutions. Once a solution takes hold in the marketplace, it can be very difficult to evolve to better platforms if it requires consumers to replace expensive hardware. Courtesy, xkcd. Licensed under Creative Commons. Years ago, when a color … Read more