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Fossil Group Launches Exclusive Smartwatch Capabilities within Wear OS by Google™ Platform – Multi-Day Battery Life and Tethered iPhone Calls

August 6, 2019 by Artem Alekseenko

Fossil Group, Inc. announced proprietary nextgen touchscreen smartwatch technology and the latest evolution in hybrid smartwatches. “We’ve made multi-day battery life for touchscreen smartwatches possible with one touch – a disruptor for smartwatches on the Wear OS by Google platform. And, we’re leading the industry on Wear OS by Google by enabling tethered phone calls … Read more

The Matrix Returns to the Big Screen for 20-Year Anniversary Exclusively in Dolby Cinema at AMC

August 6, 2019 by Artem Alekseenko

Dolby Laboratories, Inc., Warner Bros., and AMC Theatres® announced that The Matrix, winner of four Academy Awards including Best Sound, will return to select theaters nationwide for an exclusive one-week engagement in Dolby Cinema at AMC. In celebration of the film’s 20-year anniversary, audiences across the U.S. can experience Warner Bros. Pictures’ and Village Roadshow … Read more

Cable Matters Introduces Active USB-C Cables With 4K Video, Up to 10 Gbps Data, and Power Delivery

August 5, 2019 by Artem Alekseenko

Cable Matters®, an industry-leading supplier of connectivity solutions, announced new additions to their line of custom-designed USB-C products. The Cable Matters Active USB-C Cable, in a 10-foot length, is available now and the Cable Matters Active USB-C Extension Cable, in a 6-foot length, will be available at the end of September. Both full-featured USB-C cables … Read more

Samsung and Orange Romania Demonstrate 5G VR Live Streaming at Untold Music Festival in Romania

August 5, 2019 by Artem Alekseenko

Samsung Electronics and Orange Romania have successfully deployed a 5G New Radio (NR) network to demonstrate a series of 5G use cases at Untold Festival 2019, the largest annual dance music festival in Romania, held from August 1 to August 4. The two companies started their 5G collaboration in 2018 with a 5G Fixed Wireless … Read more

In the USA, Are Chinese TVs Off the Table?

December 21, 2022August 3, 2019 by Steve Sechrist

In case you missed it, the ongoing trade spat between the US and China, the world’s largest communist nation (yep – wonder why we don’t often see this in print?) has resulted in a 12% drop in overall US imports and removed China from top US trading partner status, a position that country has held … Read more

CEA-LETI Describes Smart RGB µLED Pixel for Simplified Fabrication of Large µLED Displays

August 2, 2019 by Ken Werner

At SID Display Week last May, François Templier and Jeannet Bernard (Grenoble Université Alpes and CEA-LETI, Grenoble, France) presented Paper 18-3: “A New Approach for Fabricating High-Performance MicroLED Displays.” The paper is notable for being a clear tutorial on the challenges of tranfsferring millions of µLED chips from their native epiwafers to a display substrate … Read more

Tablet Shipments See a Modest Decline of 5.0% in the Second Quarter of 2019, According to IDC

August 2, 2019 by Artem Alekseenko

The worldwide tablet market declined 5.0% year over year during the second quarter of 2019 (2Q19) as global shipments fell to 32.2 million units, according to preliminary data from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Tablet Tracker. Tablet Company Highlights Apple led the market and managed to increase its share compared to last year … Read more

Gartner Says Worldwide Smartphone Sales Will Decline 2.5% in 2019

August 2, 2019 by Artem Alekseenko

Worldwide sales of smartphones to end users will total 1.5 billion units in 2019, a 2.5% decline year over year, according to Gartner, Inc. However, Gartner analysts expect smartphone sales to grow again in 2020, driven by broader availability of 5G models and the promotion of 5G service packages in various parts of the world … Read more

Human Capable Inc. Developing Sleek AR Glasses

August 1, 2019 by Arthur Berman

Human Capable Inc., headquartered in Plantation, FL with remote team members in India and China, is in the final phase of developing “Normal looking augmented reality smart glasses that offer an everyday, hands free connection to your digital world.” The product is called Norm Glasses and includes an Android-based wearable mini-computer and a heads-up display. … Read more

Progress Reported on a New Means to Produce Thin Holographic Displays

August 1, 2019 by Arthur Berman

A team of researchers headed by Jongchan Park at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) (Daejeon, Republic of Korea) is developing a physically thin display that can project video rate multi-colored holographic imagery. First, a few words of background information. It is a challenge for the current generation of holographic displays to … Read more

Nanostructures Under Development to Boost the Efficiency of White OLEDs

August 1, 2019 by Arthur Berman

A team of researchers headed by Sebastian Reineke at the Technische Universität Dresden (Dresden, Germany) is developing a new method to extract trapped photons from white OLED devices. A recent article on this subject is entitled “Tailor-made nanostructures bridging chaos and order for highly efficient white organic light-emitting diodes.” It was published in Nature Communications … Read more

Introducing the Samsung Galaxy Tab S6: A New Tablet that Enhances Your Creativity and Productivity

August 1, 2019 by Artem Alekseenko

Samsung Electronics announced Galaxy Tab S6 – a new tablet that allows people to create and connect, enjoy immersive entertainment, and accomplish their goals wherever they go. Built for those who need to satisfy their curiosity and express their creative flair, the Galaxy Tab S6 lets users do more than they could on any tablet … Read more