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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
What They Say Altice of the USA launched a broadband STB that will be available at prices from zero to $5 per month, depending on the service. What We Think There was a time when this kind of box could only be supplied by a firm that also supplied content with a managed network but … Read more
More than 665 million homes worldwide owned a Smart TV by the end of 2020. This equates to 34% of global households, a figure that is set to rise to 51% by 2026 when Smart TV ownership will reach 1.1 billion homes. Sales of Smart TVs grew by 7.4% in 2020 to reach 186 million … Read more
What They Say Strategy Analytics forecast that globally 50% of the installed base of TVs will be smartTVs by 2026. 34% of households had the technology at the end of 2020, equating to 665 million homes and annual sales were 186 million sets, 79% of all flat panel TVs. Operating systems are consolidating with over … Read more
What They Say Law360 reports that the proposed class action against Apple over display defects in the MacBook Pro notebook has been dismissed. (Judge Reveals Mac PC Display Problems Apple ‘Tried To Hide’). The action was dismissed as ‘the proposed class failed to argue the alleged defect posed a safety hazard or that Apple fraudulently … Read more
E Ink Holdings, “E Ink” (8069.TW), the leading innovator of electronic ink technology, announced that RICOH, an innovative technology and service company enabling individuals to work smarter, has revealed world’s thinnest and lightest portable digital white board, with applications across medical, construction and office settings. The RICOH eWhiteboard 4200 is designed to connect remote sites … Read more
What They Say E Ink said that Ricoh has developed a ‘digital white board’ based on the EPD display technology. The unit is 42″ in diagonal and is just 14.5mm thick and weighs 5.9kg. The E Ink Carta display has touch facilities and the experience is said to be like paper for writing. The unit … Read more
What They Say Researchers from the University of Sydney claims to have developed a film that can act as a substitute for ITO to reduce the dependence on indium (as well as being cheaper) in electrochromic devices. The material is based on three layers of coating of tungsten oxide and silver that together are less … Read more
What They Say PatentlyApple reported that Apple has been granted a US patent for a mixed reality headset with a 3D display that can dynamically focus images directly onto the retina to correct for the different apparent depth of objects in the view. It is intended to get around issues of vergence/accomodation disparity. The inventor … Read more
What They Say MicroLED Info interviewed Sapien Semiconductors, a Korean fabless chip company that designs PWM backplane and drivers for microLEDs. The company was founded in 2017 and claims a lot of depth and experience in driver circuitry. As well as backplanes for microdisplays, the CMOS circuitry can be used as individual LED device drivers … Read more
What They Say Midwich Group, the dominant AV distributor in the UK and increasingly an operator at European level, has reported sales up 29% in the first half of 2021 on an annual basis. Margin overall was around 15.2%. Profits are expected to be up around 300% to $18 million for the half. If lockdowns … Read more
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