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Fujitsu Forum and Keynotes

Fujitsu holds an annual “Fujitsu Forum” event in Munich and this is the second year that we have attended. It’s a three day event (one day for press only) and we attended just for one day. As well as the business sessions, the event celebrates the Bavarian heritage with a huge “Oktoberfest” party. Most of … Read more

Latin Display Looks at Displays, Lighting and Solar

This was this writer’s first visit to Latin Display which this year took place in Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. Although mostly dominated by Brazilian visitors, others came from around the region. Abinfo is a research organisation that co-ordinates activity in R&D in areas of informatics, life sciences, technology and fully supports the Latin Display … Read more

Printed Electronics 2014 View of OLED Display Market

The 2014 Printed Electronics Conference (Santa Clara, CA, November 18-20) included a half day tutorial (masterclass) covering OLED, bi-stable and flexible displays, as well as OLED and LED lighting. One of the morning’s speakers, Dr. Guillaume Chansin of IDTechEx, presented his view of the current state of the OLED, bi-stable and flexible displays markets and … Read more

The Next TV Summit at NYC Television Week

NYC Television Week is the main event for the NY broadcast industry addressing the business and creative side of TV. It is held parallel to the CCW and SATCON conferences and exhibitions, that address more of the technology side of TV. Part of the NYC Television Week was the Next TV Summit discussing the future … Read more

Intel Looking to Design the Future

Brian David Johnson of Intel was the next speaker (Intel is a Diamond Sponsor for the Fujitsu Forum event). Johnson is a futurist and principal engineer and his topic is “How to design the future”. His job is to look 10 to 15 years ahead and imagine how people will interact with IT. It’s important, … Read more

Samsung Shows 95″ FHD Display at DPAA

Samsung had a small exhibition space at the DPAA Video Everywhere conference and was showing a 10″ and a 95″ LED LCD as the company’s smallest and largest offering in the professional display space. Samsung offers several lines of displays tailored for the respective markets and market segments. While most displays are rated for 18h … Read more

Services Trend in Simulation Market Reaching M&A Stage

The military training and simulation industry has been very good for participants for the last decade as the need for hardware and software to train for many operations increased. But as budgets decline, many of these providers began to offer training and simulation services to offset declines in hardware and software. This trend is now … Read more

Touch Technology Market Outlook

Randy Lawson Principal Analyst at IHS presented his findings on the technology and market outlook for touch sensors and touch enabled devices at the event. Lawson opened his presentation with the data below, which illustrates how the end-use market expansion for touch enabled devices including handsets, tablets and mobile PCs is driving the sales of … Read more

Roll-to-Roll Printed TFT Backplanes

The 2014 Printed Electronics Conference included an interesting presentation by Prof. Gyoujin Cho, of Sunchon National University, Korea entitled, Fully Roll-to-Roll (R2R) Gravure Printed TFT Backplanes for Signage and Sensors. In describing his presentation Prof. Cho made reference to the term “Smart Wallpaper” which is how he envisions the goal of his research. Prof. Cho … Read more

Travel Plaza TV’s Displays Designed for High Traffic Areas

Travel Plaza TV is a digital signage network which works exclusively with 3D autostereoscopic displays. The company currently has 259 installations in 38 states of the USA. The 46″ autostereoscopic displays are lenticular-based units with the underlying LCD panel being supplied by NEC. As has often been claimed, autostereoscopic displays in digital signage applications can … Read more

Advances in Barrier Films and Encapsulation

The 2014 Printed Electronics Conference featured an entire session on the important topic of Barrier Films and Encapsulation. Effective barrier films and encapsulation are a long-standing challenge for the production of long-lived devices including OLED displays and lighting, flexible displays, as well as printed electronic devices in general. The Barrier Films and Encapsulation session included … Read more