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Ynvisible starts to ship commercial roll-to-roll printed large-area segmented displays

What They Say Ynvisible, which makes displays based on electrochromic technology, said that it has made its first commercial delivery of R2R printed segment displays for use in portable Pickleball (a table tennis/tennis/badminton hybrid) What We Think Well, that gave me a chance to find out what Pickleball is! For sports scoring, the low power … Read more

The New Standard For Immersive Location-based Entertainment: The Panasonic PT-RQ35K Projector Series 

The latest range of Panasonic 3-Chip DLP laser projectors, available in December, set new standards for immersive location-based entertainment with spectacular 4K image quality alongside ease of set-up and use. The world’s smallest and lightest 30,500 lumen projectors, the PT-RQ35K (4K) and PT-RZ34K (WUXGA) are designed to visually thrill visitors to museums, exhibitions, theme parks … Read more

Dutch Breast Cancer Research Program Installs Europe’s Largest Fleet of Barco Coronis Uniti Display Systems

Barco has deployed 45 Coronis Uniti 12MPs and 96 Coronis Fusion 6MP displays, effectively Europe’s single biggest fleet of Barco Coronis Uniti® display systems, under a new agreement with the Netherlands’ national breast cancer screening program. The units are installed in radiology reading rooms, acquisition stations, and a number of mobile installations. In the detection … Read more

Inconsistent HDR format support in PS5 & Xbox Series X

What They Say Flatpanelshd reports that there is uncertainty about HDR support in the XBox Series X and PS5. Xbox Series X will support HDR10+. Microsoft will also support Dolby Vision for streaming and gaming (later), but reportedly not for UHD Blu-ray. Although Sony TVs support Dolby Vision, there has been no support announced in … Read more

Sony Launches Four BRAVIA BZ40H Professional Displays for Corporate Application

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Sony launches four new BRAVIA BZ40H Professional Displays specifically designed for business and corporate environments. Ranging from 55 – 85 inches, these superior large format 4K resolution screens feature incredible image quality with Full Array LED, alongside a redeveloped slim-line design for easy integration. The all-new BZ40H models are the first to combine the ultimate … Read more

iFixit Tears Down iPhone 12

What They Say iFixit had a close look at the iPhone 12 and 12 Pro in one of its teardowns. They achieved the same repairability score of 6/10 and many components are interchangeable. The teardown confirms that there are a number of compromises to accomodate 5G, for example smaller and rectangular batteries. What We Think … Read more

Stanford Materials Scientists Borrow Solar Panel Tech to Create New Ultrahigh-Res OLED Display

By expanding on existing designs for electrodes of ultra-thin solar panels, Stanford researchers and collaborators in Korea have developed a new architecture for OLED—organic light-emitting diode—displays that could enable televisions, smartphones and virtual or augmented reality devices with resolutions of up to 10,000 pixels per inch (PPI). (For comparison, the resolutions of new smartphones are … Read more

AKHAN Unveils Next Generation of Miraj Diamond Glass Materials, Including New Diamond Ceramic Glass, Showing Drop Test Glass Toughness Comparison and Ceramic Glass Hardness Testing Outperforming Corning’s New Ceramic Glass

AKHAN Semiconductor, manufacturer of the world’s first diamond smartphone screen, announced the debut of its newly formulated nanocrystalline diamond display glass technology. The next generation of Miraj Diamond® Glass technology is optimal for smartphones, watches, tablets, and any technology utilizing a screen or glass display. Miraj Diamond® Glass and Miraj Diamond® Glass Ceramic materials have … Read more

Mirada partners with izzi for ‘first ever’ DVB/OTT Android TV set-top box launch

What They Say Mirada has said that it is working with a Mexican TV service operator, Izzi, to roll out a version of its Iris front end for Android TV that will work on Android TV hybrid STBs. The existing Iris solution has worked on Linux set-top boxes, smartphones, tablets and laptops, so the move … Read more

Huawei’s next foldable phone could have a clamshell design like the Galaxy Z Flip

What They Say Huawei has filed for patents for a phone concept that folds from top to bottom, rather than from left to right. A secondary display allows checking of messages etc. What We Think Patent filings are not the same as product launches. It would be surprising if Huawai wasn’t checking all form factors … Read more