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Global Smartphone Shipments Expected to Drop Nearly 10% in 2020, But a Strong 5G Push Is Expected to Bring the Market Back to Growth in 2021, According to IDC

The worldwide smartphone market is forecast to decline 9.5% year over year in 2020 with shipments totaling 1.2 billion units, according to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker. While the second quarter of 2020 (2Q20) resulted in slightly better than expected numbers, the market was still down 17% year over year … Read more

Bias and Ethics in Spatial Computing

It seems like ethics are often an afterthought in our permissionless race towards more and better technology. And the more ubiquitous a given technology becomes, the more our senses are dulled to any Mr. Hyde implications lurking in the shadows. A recent seminar entitled simply Spatial Computing: Ethics took a stab at some forward thinking, … Read more

Samsung Display Demonstrates Most Advanced Display Hole for Smartphone Cameras

Samsung Display announced that UL, a leading global safety science company, has just verified its new OLED hole display as having image quality low in color deviation in terms of “hole area clarity,” providing a balanced level of uniformity across the portion of the display surrounding the camera hole. “Enabling uniform image quality on the … Read more

OTI Lumionics Announces Strategic Investment from LG Technology Ventures

OTI Lumionics, a leader in the development of advanced materials for consumer electronics, announces it has received a strategic investment from LG Technology Ventures – the venture capital investment arm of LG Group. This investment will be used to help accelerate the adoption of OTI’s materials in mass production, including its ConducTorrTM CPM solution for … Read more

Samsung TV Receives Accreditation From Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) in the UK

Samsung Electronics announced that the company has received ‘Tried and Tested Accreditation’ for its 2020 Smart TVs from the United Kingdom’s Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) which is the first time this accreditation has been given in the TV industry. RNIB awards its “Tried and Tested” accreditation to products, websites, apps or services … Read more

Mini LED Backlight Technology Research Report

Under the current weakness of the LCD industry, emerging technologies may bring new breath. Among them, Mini LED has attracted wide attention, and it is expected to promote the upgrade of display products and the development of diversified technologies in the future. At present, Mini LED is developing in two technical directions: backlight application and … Read more

Panasonic develops Intelligent Rear-View Mirror for Nissan KICKS

Automotive Company, Panasonic Corporation has developed jointly with Nissan Motor Corporation a high-performance electronic mirror for driver safety. It features significant image definition enhancement for better visibility at night and control of a flicker phenomenon caused by the LED lamps of vehicles behind. As Nissan’s fourth generation electronic mirror, this development was adopted for KICKS, … Read more

LCD’s Next Generation: MiniLED vs. Dual Cell

As a part of SID’s Display Week 2020 Shin-Tson Wu (Pegasus Professor at the College of Optics and Photonics, University of Central Florida) gave an invited paper entitled “High-Dynamic-Range MiniLED and Dual-Cell LCDs.” Let’s summarize this valuable tutorial and analysis of the state of these impressive technologies. The two technologies take very different routes to … Read more

Avalon Holographics Unveils First Generation Light Field Display

The sci-fi dream of fully immersive, natural 3D experiences is one step closer to reality following the release of Avalon Holographics’ first generation prototype display. The 29-inch development system represents a significant milestone for the Canadian tech start-up and is being met with vocal support from customers, investors, industry analysts, and the Government of Canada. … Read more

The Mini TV Box – Our Smallest, Greenest Set-top-box

Liberty Global is introducing its greenest-ever set top box, delivering a world-class viewing experience while dramatically reducing energy consumption and the use of plastics. Designed in-house by engineers at Liberty Global and manufactured by Commscope, the compact, multi-faceted 4K Mini TV Box combines a high-quality customer experience and rich choice of content with extremely low … Read more

Enablers of K12 School Technology Innovation

The COSN 2020 K12 Driving Innovation: Technology Enablers report, after multiple rounds of Delphi-like voting by more than 102 members of their International Advisory Board of distinguished educational technology experts, has a lot to say about trendsetting ed-tech developments. In this last in my series of three articles we will focus on five enablers that, … Read more