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ViewSonic Expands Workspace Functionality with New Touch Display Designed to Enhance Productivity

May 31, 2022 by Artem Alekseenko

ViewSonic Corp., a leading global provider of visual solutions, introduces the ID2456 Touch Display, designed to optimize communication and collaboration. The ViewSonic® ID2456 touch display is a multifunctional 24-inch display with projected capacitive [PCAP] touch and Palm Rejection technologies and works with Microsoft Pen Protocol [MPP2.0] active pens to deliver pinpoint accuracy when writing or … Read more

Avoiding the Landfill, Part III: Towards Better Customer Launches

May 31, 2022 by Len Scrogan

In education, poor [technology] implementation from the very outset of a project spirals our products towards the landfill of technological promise. In last month’s article, “Avoiding the Landfill, Part II: Great Beginnings” we zeroed in on strategies that any firm can employ, up front, “to guarantee greater implementation success by educators—and thus secure a more … Read more

Smart Films Facilitate Human-Machine Interaction

May 31, 2022 by Bob Raikes

What They Say A group at Saarland University is using thin silicon films to give haptic feedback to touch displays. The 50 micron film can change shape to simulate a button or key on a surface. The film could also be incorporated into gloves to allow a system to know how hands and fingers are … Read more

TV Set Market: Share of Smart TVs Continues to Rise

May 31, 2022 by Artem Alekseenko

In the first four months of the year, the share of smart TVs measured against the total TV market continued to rise. According to GfK SE, slightly more than 1.6 million TV sets were sold in Germany during this period. Almost all of these sets are smart TVs (1.6 million), which enable the use of … Read more

Samsung Blue ‘Within the Year’?

May 31, 2022 by Bob Raikes

What They Say There’s no secret that phosphorescent blue is coming to OLED – RGB or WOLED and QD OLED displays. At an event in Korea following SID, Kyung Hee University professor Kwon Jang-hyuk gave some interesting details about Samsung’s architecture for QD OLED. The current Samsung architecture is a four layer tandem structure, with … Read more

Mojo Gets Its MicroLEDs Working

May 31, 2022 by Bob Raikes

At Display Week, I had the chance to moderate the CEO Forum and the panel included Nikhil Balram of Mojo Vision who told me that he had joined the firm partly to help it exploit the microLED technology that it has developed for its AR contact lenses. Balram is a very experienced display and semiconductor … Read more

Links mid-Week Week Ending 3rd June 2022

May 31, 2022 by Bob Raikes

Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. Here are a few from the middle and end of this week. Samsung Display to fully exit from LCD TV panel business in June (as expected) Netflix closes up in Russia Philips 27E1N5900E: new 4K IPS monitor with USB-C … Read more

PC Shipments Continue to Grow Across the Middle East & Africa as Tablet Market Suffers Significant Decline

May 31, 2022 by Artem Alekseenko

The Middle East and Africa (MEA) personal computing devices (PCD) market, which is made up of desktops, notebooks, workstations, and tablets, experienced a slight year-on-year decline of 1.5% in the first quarter of 2022, according to the latest industry analysis conducted by International Data Corporation (IDC). The global technology research and consulting firm’s newly updated … Read more

LCD to stay mainstream: Q&A with Andrew Beck of Corning Display

May 31, 2022 by Milos Pavlovic

What They Say Digitimes interviewed Andrew Beck, director of Worldwide Commercial Operations at Corning’s Display business unit and he confirmed the view, expressed at the SID Display Week Business Conference by Corning, that LCD will continue to dominate display panel sales. After covering the challenges from lockdowns and geo-political issues, Beck said that “every manufacturer … Read more

Samsung Fixes PQ EOTF Fudging

December 21, 2022May 30, 2022 by Bob Raikes

What They Say Samsung Electronics has reacted to the furore over its manipulation of HDR grey levels to optimise benchmark results by issuing new firmware (update 1211) for its S95B TV. (A Testing Scandal or Just ‘Early Days’?) What We Think Vincent Teoh of HDTVTest had a look at the performance with the new firmware … Read more

Foxconn shrugs off China lockdown concerns after record Q1

May 30, 2022 by Bob Raikes

What They Say Nikkei reported that Foxconn has said that it will maintain its revenue this year, despite lockdowns in China which are disrupting supply chains. Foxconn Chairman Young Liu said: “It is indeed a great challenge. We have spent a lot of effort arranging workers’ food and accommodation and communicating with local governments. Currently, … Read more

Oppo is presenting its Air Glass in the US for the first time.

December 21, 2022May 30, 2022 by Bob Raikes

What They Say Oppo has been showing its ‘Air Glass’ at the AWE 2022 event in North America. The device is a monocular device based around a Qualcomm Snapdragon 4100 chip and with a Spark microprojector providing 1400 cd/m², (OPPO Air Glass to be available for purchase in China from next month for 4,999 yuan … Read more