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Harman Wants to Keep Cars Up to Date

by Bob Raikes

Harman has gradually been intruding on our consciousness over the last few months and at MWC the company was showing some interesting automotive applications. The company has developed audio systems for cars and other …

Tags:Automotive| Large Display Monitor| MWC 2016| Vol 23 - Issue 08

AUO Shows AMOLED for 2016

by Tom Allen

AUO has used an event at its headquarters in Hsinchu, Taiwan to show new products and technologies. These included both large and small displays, and were not limited to LCD displays. AUO CEO Paul …

Tags:AMOLED| AUO| Automotive| Curved Displays| Free Form Displays| Large Display Monitor| LCD Panels| Mobile Display Monitor| Narrow Bezels| Smartwatches| Vol 23 - Issue 07

HeadsUP! a New Aftermarket HUD Includes Amazon Alexa

by Norbert Hildebrand

This latest version of an aftermarket automobile HUD is presented by HeadsUP!, a California based startup company and includes the Amazon Alexa voice recognition system as its input system. The device comes with its …

Tags:Automotive| Head Up Displays HUDs| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Pico Projectors| Vol 23 - Issue 07

Much More Mobile Mobile

by Ken Werner

Data traffic on mobile networks will reach 367 exabytes – that’s 367×10^18 bytes or 367 billion gigabytes – in 2020, up from 44 exabytes in 2015, according to Cisco Systems’ recently released Visual Networking …

Tags:Automotive| Internet of Things IOT| Vol 23 - Issue 06

University of Florida Reports on Development of New LCD Mixture for Extreme Temperatures

by Norbert Hildebrand

Shin-Tson Wu, Pegasus Professor of Optics and Photonics, University of Central Florida – College of Optics and Photonics, USA together with support from Xi’an Modern Chemistry Research Institute in Xi’an, China, and DIC Corporation, …

Tags:Automotive| LC Materials (Liquid Crystal)| LCD Panels| Mobile Display Monitor| Response Times| Vol 23 - Issue 06

Samsung Revives Safety Truck

by Tom Allen

Eight months ago, in June 2015, Samsung tested a truck equipped with displays on the rear, which would show the road ahead of the vehicle through a camera feed (Overtaking Problem Solved by Samsung?). …

Tags:Automotive| Large Display Monitor| LATAM| Samsung| Vol 23 - Issue 05

Carloudy: An Automotive Head-Up Display

by Arthur Berman

During recent years, head-up displays (HUDs) have become available as an option in some luxury car models. Now, an aftermarket alternative is under development by Cognitive AI Technologies Inc. (Chicago, IL). The device is …

Tags:Automotive| E Ink| Head Up Displays HUDs| Projection| Projection Screens| Sunlight Readable Displays| Vol 23 - Issue 05

OTT Firms Lead Connected Car Experience

by Tom Allen

Juniper Research expects 10x rise in connected in-vehicle infotainment system revenues between 2016 and 2020. By the end of the decade, Juniper forecasts that revenues will exceed $600 million. New research (http://tinyurl.com/zfmv7uq) predicts that …

Tags:Amazon| Android| Apple| Automotive| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 03

Apple Car Leader to Leave Company

by Tom Allen

Steve Zadesky, head of Apple’s electric car project, is leaving the company, according to The Wall Street Journal‘s sources. A person familiar with the matter said that Zadesky is leaving for personal, rather than …

Tags:Apple| Automotive| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| People| Vol 23 - Issue 03

IDTechEx: OLEDs Will Drive Flexible Automotive Market

by Tom Allen

IDTechEx says that the market for printed and flexible electronics in automotive applications will grow from around $400 million this year, to more than $5.5 billion in 2026. There are many technologies in the …

Tags:Automotive| Flexible Devices| IdTechEx| Large Display Monitor| Lighting| Mobile Display Monitor| OLEDs| Printed Electronics| Vol 23 - Issue 03

Tobii Interviewed on PC Eye Tracking

by Bob Raikes

We interviewed Mårten Skogö of Swedish company Tobii, which is a leading company in eye tracking, about the integration of the company’s technology into a new MSI notebook. We also saw an application of …

Tags:Automotive| CES 2016| Game Playing| Gaze Recognition| Tobii| Vol 23 - Issue 03