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LG Engineers Speak About Transparent and Flexible Screens

Two of LG Display’s chief research engineers have spoken about upcoming display technology with the Wall Street Journal (http://tinyurl.com/ps33cjw). Lee Bu-yeol is LGD’s chief research engineer for transparent displays and Park Weon-seo is the chief research engineer for flexible displays. Transparent smartphones would be difficult to produce, said Lee, as all components would need to … Read more

Preparing for Electronica

Electronica 2014 takes place in Munich between 11th and 14th November. We will be at the show to bring you all the important coverage! Crystal Display Systems will show new display products, including a 15″ multitouch monitor with Baanto’s Shadowsense technology; a 19″ medical monitor, also with touch; a range of industrial interface cards; a … Read more

Shelf Share: A Revealing Research Tool

Deirdre Kennedy, an analyst for Gap Intelligence, has written extensively about shelf share in the retail space. Her explanation of the term is comprehensive and her examples are particularly relevant to the display trade. Shelf share is ‘the percentage of a store’s shelf that is owned by a particular segment’; it is similar to market … Read more

Dell Boosts Laptop Graphics Performance

A new product, designed to increase laptop framerates, is accompanying Dell’s Alienware 13 laptop on its European launch. Announced for the North America market in August, the Alienware 13 is a 13.3″ gaming device that is almost 40% thinner than the preceding Alienware 14, at 26.3mm. The chassis is constructed from carbon fibre, keeping weight … Read more

LDM Product Roundup Vol 21 Issue 43

The first monitors with AMD’s Freesync technology will be launched next month, sources have told Fudzilla. In September, we heard that Freesync partners were aiming to ship the monitors in Q1’15 (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 37); getting them to market in time for Christmas would be significant. In a teardown of Apple’s new 27″ … Read more

Balacing Charge Extends QD Efficiencies

Chinese researchers have taken quantum dot (QD) LEDs above 20% external quantum efficiency (EQE) – thought to be the technology’s theoretical maximum (Display Monitor Vol 20 No 20) – for the first time. By adding an insulator layer to the design structure, a team at Zhejiang University achieved an EQE of 20.5%, with an operational … Read more

Bringing Tactile Feedback to an In-Air Screen

In-air touchscreens have been seen before – usually featuring a projector and water vapour (Display Monitor Vol 20 No 1, Vol 21 No 17). However, there has been little sensation of feedback. A team at the University of Tokyo, however, has developed a new way to present such a display. Although a screen is used, … Read more

Optically Writable 3D LCD Developed by HKUST

Hong Kong University for Science and Technology (HKUST) published the result of its research, originally shown in a paper at SID, into an optically rewritable 3D LCD. The display is basically a normal LCD without drive electronics. In a normal LCD, the LCD molecules are aligned by applying a voltage between the front and the … Read more

Smartphones Reach New High as Xiaomi Joins Top Vendors

Global smartphone shipments remained above 300 million units in Q3’14, having reached that point in Q2. According to IDC, new releases and an increased emphasis on emerging markets were key. In total, vendors shipped 327.6 million smartphones, representing 25.2% YoY growth from Q3’13’s 261.7 million units. The figure was also 8.7% higher than the 301.3 … Read more