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Mozilla’s Chromecast rival, Matchstick (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 26), has been revealed, with a competitive price of $25. The device, which was quickly funded on Kickstarter (http://tinyurl.com/karoadz), uses open-source software. Developers are being invited to build apps now, although first-gen Chromecast apps will run as standard. Matchstick connects to an HDMI port and features … Read more
Asahi Glass Co. (AGC) has begun sales of a new, anti-reflective glass called Clearsight. The product possesses higher resistance to chemicals and the weather. A special coating is applied to the inner and outer faces of the glass, lowering reflectance and minimising reflections. Up to this point, AGC has been using imported anti-reflective glass, although … Read more
PMA Research has announced the top-selling projectors in North America in August. The company divides the results into three categories: ‘pico and personal’; ‘mainstream’; and ‘high end’. Aaxa took three of the top five pico and personal models. The P4-X, P300 Pico and P2 Jr. were placed in first, third and fourth respectively. These models … Read more
The production of flexible displays is currently dependent on ITO material, for transparent conductive and encapsulation films. Replacing ITO is proving difficult, with challenges in terms of cost, sustainability and manufacturing scale. The project was set up because throughout Europe, it is proving extremely difficult to develop the manufacture of these alternative materials beyond laboratory … Read more
Samsung’s upcoming A3 line will use a new hybrid encapsulation technology, Korea’s UBI Research claims. Rather than the current Vitex technique, the new method will be ‘similar to the method that LG Display takes’, where the film is laminated after the resin coating process. The A3 fab is a G6 line, due to begin operation … Read more
We recently reported on how AT&T and Verizon are showing signs that they will be rolling out LTE-Broadcast. AT&T has now added more sound bites to the growing push, saying that it is building a network to deliver video to LTE-enabled devices over a new LTE Broadcast network of its own design. Speaking at the … Read more
UK retail chain Argos has made two new appointments as part of its strategy to become a digital retail leader. Ian Dobson joins the company as head of customer and market insight, in which role he will lead the development of strategies driven by an understanding of customers and how they shop. Matt Hobbs has … Read more
Nanoco Group has appointed Keith Wiggins to the newly created role of COO. He joins Nanoco from Dow and will be responsible for the operational management of the company including key customer relationships and a focus on building Nanoco’s strategic businesses.
A new notebook has joined HP’s Stream 14 (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 33), with a similar thin and light design and minimal local storage. Available in two sizes (11.6″ and 13.3″), the HP Stream features up to 1TB of cloud storage via Microsoft OneDrive; a year’s subscription to Office 365 Personal; and a $25 … Read more
Panasonic says that its new Toughbook CF-LX3 is the lightest 14″ notebook available on the market today. Weighing 1.26kg, the product will run on battery for up to 14 hours. The battery will recharge in 3 hours and is replaceable. As a Toughbook, the CF-LX3 is designed to withstand falls from a desk (around 0.75m). … Read more
A technique that bonds a polymeric film to glass, in a way that means it can be ‘easily’ removed by applying heat, has been developed by the Suga Laboratory of the School of Engineering at the University of Tokyo. The research may be used to lower the cost of flexible substrate production. When a polyimide … Read more
Yang Yang, a researcher at UCLA, and colleagues claim to have developed an ‘inexpensive and simple way’ to produce transparent, flexible transistors. Transistors are generally produced using a multi-step photolithography process (printing a pattern onto glass or a wafer, using light). The process is expensive and uses toxic substances. Yang’s approach instead uses inks (referred … Read more
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