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Konka Debuts 27-Inch Cordless Smart Monitor

by Artem Alekseenko

Konka announced that the Company has launched Movevision, its latest 27-inch cordless smart monitor in Japan. The launch marks the global debut. The Konka designers created a smart monitor that’s not tied down to a …

Tags:Desktop Monitors| Japan| Konka

Links Week Ending 2nd September 2022

by Bob Raikes

Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. Here are a few from the middle of this week. Another false 3D Advert in Shinjuku, Japan Best …

Tags:Japan| LED| OTT Video| Outdoor Displays| Vizio

Sharp quarterly

SDP Now Back in Sharp

by Bob Raikes

What They Say In June, Nikkei reported that Sharp had said that it was buying back the shares in Sakai Display Products (its G10 fab in Japan) to make it a wholly ownd subsidiary. …

Tags:Foxconn (Honhai)| Japan| LCD Fabs| Mergers & Acquisitions| sharp

LG Libero: WQHD display for hanging or standing

by Bob Raikes

What They Say LG in Japan has released an unusually designed monitor that is designed for desk standing or hanging from an office screen partition. The unit is a QuadHD IPS monitor and there …

Tags:Desktop Monitors| Japan| LG Electronics (LGE)

Links Week Starting 20th June 2022

by Bob Raikes

Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. Here are a few from the first part of this week. (I’m still catching up after Display Week!) …

Tags:Asus| audio| BenQ| Consoles| Desktop Monitors| Japan| LED| Legislation| OLEDs| Outdoor Displays| PlayStation| Power Supplies| Semiconductor Market| Smartphones| sony| Sports and Stadiums| Testing| TSMC| TVs (TV Sets)| USA| Virtual Sets

Itochu Alteric Note On Sale in Japan

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Trading company Itochu has developed an ‘e-note’ device based on a 13.3″ E Ink with 206 dpi and supporting pen input with 4096 pressure levels. It has 32GB of storage and …

Tags:E Ink| Japan| Notebooks

Earthquake Disrupts Chips and Components

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Wednesday saw a substantial earthquake off the Northeast Coast of Japan. The quake registered as magnitude 7.3, down below the level 9.0 of the disastrous one that caused the tsunami that …

Tags:Automotive| Japan| Semiconductors| Supply Chain| Ukraine

NHK Develops 8K Slo-mo Camera

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Advanced Television reported that NHK has developed an 8K camera that can capture and record at 240 fps making it suitable for slow motion sports coverage. BS4K and BS8K broadcast at …

Tags:Cameras| Japan| Super Hi-Vision (8K)

Links Week Starting 14th February 2022

by Bob Raikes

Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. Here are a few from the first part of this week. (Most of them monitors, it seems!) MSI: …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Desktop Monitors| Game Playing| Japan| Market Data| Piracy| Semiconductor Market| STBs| Streaming Video| Virtual Reality

Toray Research Center Plans OLED seminar

by Milos Pavlovic

What They Say Toray Research in Japan, which supplies technical analysis and support for R&D and manufacturing including reverse engineering of OLED devices, is running a free webinar (which will remain online for two …

Tags:Japan| OLEDs| Testing

7-Eleven Japan Tests Touchless Checkouts

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Nikkei reported that 7-Eleven Japan is experimenting in six stores in Tokyo with ‘holographic’ touch screens that feature a virtual touch screen but do not use physical touch. The terminals cannot …

Tags:Japan| Touchless Touch

Tasty TV: Japanese Professor Creates Flavourful Screen

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Reuters reported that a Japanese academic has developed a system to use a transparent rollable film over a display to create a ‘lickable display’. The system uses 10 flavour canisters that …

Tags:Japan| R&D (Research & Development)