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One of my favourite sayings as a manager has always been “If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it”. I’m not sure where the quote came from (Drucker and Deming are both widely identified as the source, although that doesn’t seem to be correct). However, if you have ever had any involvement in metrology, … Read more
AUO Display Plus, a subsidiary of AUO, announced its collaboration with Deutsche Bahn AG (DB), European largest railway company, introducing the 28.6-inch TARTAN stretched display into the future concept train IdeasTrainCity (IDEENZUGCITY) that DB planned for the smart transportation, reshaping and innovating train-ride experience through the benefits of TARTAN, such as its special sizes that … Read more
What They Say Verizon has a new smart speaker based on the Amazon Alexa platform. It has an 8″ 1280 x 800 display with 4GB of RAM and 16GB of storage. There is a front-facing camera with a privacy shutter and will include a low-power 4G LTE modem, but cannot be used as a hot-spot … Read more
What They Say Digitimes reported data from the Japan Electronics and Information Technology Industries Association (JEITA) that highlighted good growth in TV sales in 2021, with volumes of TVs at 2.79 million sets up 20.9% year on year. Shipments of 4K TVs and OLED TVs were up 29.1% and 92.5% year on year for the … Read more
What They Say Quoting UBI Research, The Elec said that Apple used more OLEDs in its smartphones than Samsung in the first half of the year (between 60 and 64 million against 55 to 56 million). The Apple ones were all flexible displays, while Samsung used both flexible (13-14 million) and rigid (42 million) displays. … Read more
Corning Incorporated (NYSE: GLW) announced a new category for its scratch resistant and durable glass composite products, Corning® Gorilla® Glass with DX and Corning® Gorilla® Glass with DX+. The application of this technology to mobile device cameras enables professional-grade image capture through a unique combination of advanced optical performance, superior scratch resistance, and durability. Since … Read more
What They Say The Protocol blog pointed to Covid as a prime reason for a lack of AR and VR content from the Olympics in Tokyo. USA Today had planned an AR experience around Team USA rock climber Kyra Condie. Intel and NTT-Docomo had been planning to have a number of experiences of 5G and … Read more
What They Say Semiconductor Engineering spoke to Eric Virey of Yole Développement who highlighted that a number of breakthroughs are needed for a volume breakthrough for microLED – not least a need to “reduce cost by 20X to 30X for mainstream adoption”. The paper also spoke to Lam Research, Lumileds, Veeco and KLA who explained … Read more
What They Say A report published in the Science Journal covered work by Indian scientists to create a new crystalline material that is said to be capable of self-healing, but might be usable to repair materials including display cover screens. Most self-healing materials are not crystalline, but soft. The new material is piezoelectric and is … Read more
Last week, Microsoft introduced its Windows 365 a simplified version of its ‘virtual PC’, which is also availabe via its Azure Virtual Desktop architecture. For an interesting take on the concept, check out this article by Bob O’Donnell, an occasional contributor to Display Daily. It got me thinking about thin clients and virtual desktops. Again. … Read more
What They Say MacWorld summarised the latest rumours about an iPad Mini re-design. The design for the sixth generation could look like a smaller iPad Air 9to5Mac reports that it will use an A15 processor and support USB Type C Mark Gurman of Bloomberg said it will have a major redesign Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo also … Read more
What They Say A team of researchers at Harvard have developed a metasurface that can tune the amplitude, phase, and polarization properties of laser light, including the wavelength. No additional components are needed. The research was published in Nature Communications. Up to now, these changes could be made by using separate metasurfaces, but this was … Read more
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