100 Million Projection Chips Shipped
A new industry milestone has been reached by 3LCD Technology. 100 million 3LCD projection chips have been shipped since the technology’s introduction in 1998.
Fraunhofer Examines Bi-Directional Data
Fraunhofer had a large stand divided into several different sections, each of which was dedicated to a different branch of the institute. LiFi technology was being shown by Fraunhofer IPMS. Two units, roughly 2m apart, were sending data to each other (bi-directionally) at 1Gbps, using IR light. A 10m distance is possible, though. The module … Read more
Kyocera Takes on Automotive Challenge
Kyocera has several divisions, with many display distributors located around hall A3. However, the company did have its own stand, where it was showing materials worked on by its Fineceramics division – as well as more displays. The highlight of the stand was a 3D-printed 1:3 scale model of an Aston Martin DB5; one of … Read more
3D Film Festival in Los Angeles is Adding Virtual Reality Fest
3DFF (3D Film Festival) is organizing the next one day 3D film show in Los Angeles on December 6. If you are a 3D fan and in Los Angeles that day, this may be a good way to spend a whole day. The program is heavy on 3D content but also adds 4D content. This … Read more
3D Print Your Own Computer
3D printing has been getting more and more advanced, but we didn’t think we’d reach this level quite yet. The world’s first 3D-printed laptop, the Pi-Top has been successfully funded on crowdsourcing sight IndieGoGo. It was created by graduates from Oxford University, and aims to teach people how to build 3D printed circuits and real … Read more
Christie Introduces Laser-Phosphor Projectors to the Simulation Market…
Christie Digital used I/ITSEC 2014 to introduce its new laser-phosphor projectors to the training and simulation community. The DWU555-GS is a solid-state, 1-chip DLP laser-phosphor projector with 5,400 ANSI lumens and WUXGA (1920 x 1200) resolution. With no lamp to replace, the lifetime of the light source is rated at 20K hours – a major … Read more
Digital Projection Adds IR Capability to LED Projector
Digital Projection had a few good nuggets of info at I/ITSEC 2014 including a first time demo of its LED projector that adds an IR LED for NVG use. The IR images are input on the red channel, but how the IR LED is switched in, was not revealed at the show. Digital Projection has … Read more
Ortus Iterates on Blanview
Ortus, of Japan, began in 2010 as a joint venture between Toppan and Casio. It has its own sunlight-readable display technology, Blanview, which is a type of transflective LCD. These displays are created by combining an amorphous silicon TFT panel, with high transmittance, with a design that reflects a high degree of external light. Several … Read more
4K-UHD Delivery Options Getting Real
M-Go, Amazon and DirecTV are all in the news with new 4K-UHD delivery services that are rolling out now or shortly in the US. Last week, we reported that DirecTV was getting ready to roll out 4K-UHD delivery using it satellites and Genie HD-DVR set top box (LDM Vol 21 No 45) . But it … Read more
Osram Reaches New Blue Brightness
While our previous coverage of Osram at Electronica has focused on the company’s backlighting technology, we found more to discuss this year. The company had a large stand at the front of hall A3 (the dedicated displays area), which literally glowed! In one corner of the booth we saw a new LED for display boards. … Read more
Tianma Takes Aim at Automotive
Tianma’s stand was divided between new technologies, automotive displays and point-of-sale/medical/industrial units. We began with the automotive models. Several displays are available now. Two of these are passive monochrome LCD screens; they are called EBN (enhanced black nematic) and W-EBN (wide-EBN). These have 1,000:1 and 800:1 contrast ratios are intended for use in vehicle clusters. … Read more
Electronica 2014 Roundup
An Internet-of-Things gateway with Intel’s Quark technology was on show by Aaeon. The AIOT-X1000 was announced at Computex earlier this year. It runs on an SoC with a 32-bit single-core, single-thread Pentium instruction set architecture-compatible CPU. This device operates at speeds up to 400MHz. Hermann Holz of Aditech talked about the difference in TN and … Read more
