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Amazon already has its own set-top box (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 14), but is now challenging the growing streaming stick market with the Fire TV stick. Streaming OTT services such as Netflix, Hulu and Amazon Instant Video, the stick has 8GB of storage and 1GB of RAM, compared to Chromecast’s 2GB and 512MB. 1920 … Read more
Invitations have been sent out to an event on 9th September by Apple, effectively confirming the previously-rumoured iPhone 6 launch date. Unlike the company’s previous invitations, there is no hint of what will be shown (the iPhone 5’s event invitation was particularly in-your-face). However, Apple has a history of releasing its handsets in early autumn. … Read more
An interesting peripheral is seeking funding on Kickstarter (http://tinyurl.com/ojljme3). The Headless Ghost is a display emulator, which can ‘trick’ a PC into thinking that a monitor is attached. Because many PCs disable their GPU when a display is not detected, to save power, resolution for users connecting remotely is often limited. Additionally, some software, such … Read more
A transparent conductive film, which can be made using a new inkjet technology forming a metal mesh structure, has been developed by Konica Minolta. The company showed the film at Display Innovation 2014 in Japan last month. The mesh is formed of metal lines, each of which are 5
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
German tech industry association Bitkom has said that the country’s ICT market (including consumer electronics (CE), telecommuncations and information technology) will rise 1.6% this year, to be valued at
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
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
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
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
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
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
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