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Gorilla Glass Targets Automotive and Alternative Applications and Technologies

by Helen Vince

Display Materials & Manufacturing – While Corning’s Gorilla Glass is aimed primarily at mobile devices, the company has set up a separate group to look at alternative uses for the product. In our exclusive …

Tags:Automotive| Corning| Glass| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 21 - Issue 47

Vorsprung Durch Samsung

by Raverstead

Audi showrooms in the UK are using Samsung’s Gear VR headset to demonstrate the features of the new Audi TT. Wearers can investigate the interior of the car and be taken for a drive. …

Tags:Automotive| Back Panel| Mobile Display Monitor| Retail| Vol 21 - Issue 46

Abileah Explains Vertical Markets

by Raverstead

Adi Abileah is, these days, an independent consultant in display technology, although readers may know him from his time as Chief Scientist at Planar Systems. He gave a very interesting talk on special vertical …

Tags:Automotive| Aviation| Large Display Monitor| Latin Display 2014| Medical| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 21 - Issue 46

Colegrove Updates on Touch

by Raverstead

Jennifer Colegrove is from Touch Display Research and talked about touch and touchless input. She started by talking about “what’s hot” in the market, including non-touch areas. Colegrove said that she was one of …

Tags:Automotive| Cima Nanotech| Large Display Monitor| Latin Display 2014| Metal Mesh| Mobile Display Monitor| Silver Nanowire| Touch Display Research (TDR)| Touch Market| Touchless Touch| Vol 21 - Issue 46

Korea Announces OLED and Flexible Focus in R&D Budget

by Raverstead

The Korean government will put more than double the money towards OLEDs and flexible displays in 2015 than it did this year. The Korea Evaluation Institute of Industrial Technology has announced a KRW12.5 billion …

Tags:Automotive| Flexible Displays| Korea| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| OLEDs| R&D (Research & Development)| Vol 21 - Issue 48| Wide Colour Gamut (WCG)

Multi-function Display Shipments Rising, Says DisplaySearch

by Raverstead

Demand for multi-function TFT-LCD displays in the automotive instrument cluster is accelerating. According to DisplaySearch, shipments of these products will grow 48% YoY in 2014, to reach 30.2 million units. Further growth will see …

Tags:Automotive| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| NPD DisplaySearch| Vol 21 - Issue 47

Thinkware Releases iNavi X1 – Augmented Reality Extreme

by Raverstead

The Korean based company Thinkware, better known under its iNavi brand, has released the iNavi X1 navigation display solution that includes a full 3D map enabling an advanced navigation system. The system was shown …

Tags:Automotive| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Navigation| Vol 21 - Issue 48

Kyocera Takes on Automotive Challenge

by Raverstead

Kyocera has several divisions, with many display distributors located around hall A3. However, the company did have its own stand, where it was showing materials worked on by its Fineceramics division – as well …

Tags:Automotive| Electronica 2014| Kyocera| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| On-cell| Sapphire| Vol 21 - Issue 45

Tianma Takes Aim at Automotive

by Raverstead

Tianma’s stand was divided between new technologies, automotive displays and point-of-sale/medical/industrial units. We began with the automotive models. Several displays are available now. Two of these are passive monochrome LCD screens; they are called …

Tags:AMOLED| Automotive| Bistable| Electronica 2014| Head Up Displays HUDs| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Tianma| Vol 21 - Issue 45

And Finally… Real driving game

by Raverstead

And finally… Baen’s self-named project on Kickstarter (http://tinyurl.com/maez99k) sounds a little bit like the Hindenburg – a lot of potential, but there are likely to be flames before it’s over… Baen is a hardware …

Tags:Automotive| Back Panel| Game Playing| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor

Audi Shows Prologue Prototype with OLED Touch Dashboard

by Raverstead

Flat panel displays are playing an increasingly larger role in car designs. The latest step in this direction is shown by Audi in its latest prototype, Audi Prologue. Audi uses three separate touch enabled …

Tags:Automotive| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| OLEDs| Vol 21 - Issue 48

Customer Engagement World Explored Latest Trends in DooH Advertising

by Raverstead

We recently visited Customer Engagement World, which took place in New York from November 5-6 2014 where we saw a demonstration of the latest 3D motion capture technology from Israeli company, Extreme Reality. Extreme …

Tags:Automotive| CEW 2014| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 21 - Issue 45