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Display Chemicals Market Will Spike Next Year

by Tom Allen

The market for the four primary chemicals used in TFT-LCD production has been forecast to reach $1.6 billion this year, by IHS. Sales of etchant, alone, will be worth $850 million, with more than …

Tags:IHS Markit| Large Display Monitor| Materials Market| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 48

Omate Continues to Go Alone

by Tom Allen

Omate is following its Truesmart+ smartwatch (Omate Breaks Smartphone Link) with a third-generation model called the Omate Rise. Presented as the flagship product for the company’s 2016 range, the Rise features Bluetooth Low Energy …

Tags:Crowdfunding (Kickstarter etc)| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartwatches| Vol 22 - Issue 48

Google Patents Headband for Glass

by Tom Allen

A new patent, filed by Google, has hinted at what the next iteration of Google Glass might look like. Rather than the inflexible form factor of the original, patent 9,195,067 B1 shows a headband-type …

Samsung Aims at 10% AMOLED Premium

by Tom Allen

China Times claims that Samsung Display is aiming to lower the price premium of its small- and medium-sized AMOLED displays to within 10% of that of LCD displays next year. Currently, the screens are …

Sharp Prepares to Relocate, Says Japanese Media

by Tom Allen

Japan’s Nikkan Kogyo Shimbu has said that Sharp is considering relocating its headquarters in Osaka to the nearby city of Tenri, in Nara Prefecture. The report’s sources say that Tenri is Sharp’s main hub …

Tags:Japan| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| sharp| Vol 22 - Issue 48

Are You Ready for Digital Humans?

by Chris Chinnock

And just what are digital humans you ask? According to Pulse Evolution (Port St. Lucie, FL and San Rafael, CA), they are computer-generated animations that have such high fidelity, they look almost real. And …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Rental and Staging| Virtual Reality| Vol 22 - Issue 48

Tobii Presents First Integrated Eye Tracking

by Tom Allen

In mid-October, Tobii revealed a new eye tracking platform and a set of components for eye tracking technology in consumer devices. These products – the Tobii IS4 platform and EyeChip components – can be …

Tags:Gaze Recognition| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Tobii| Vol 22 - Issue 48

Gimmick or Godsend: AR/VR in Education

by Len Scrogan

Quick Search: Research is a new series dedicated to unpacking some of the emerging research on 3D, VR, and other dynamic visualization technologies. See my introductory article for this series, entitled Good, Better, Best: …

ITU Harmonises Spectrum Use Worldwide

by Tom Allen

The ITU has moved to allocate the 700MHz band (specifically 694-790MHz) to mobile signals at the 2015 World Radiocommunication Conference. The decision applies to ITU Region 1 (EMEA and central Asia); as similar agreements …

Tags:Events| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Spectrum Allocation| Vol 22 - Issue 48

Cheaper Graphene Production Developed?

by Tom Allen

Ravinder Dahiya was a lead researcher on the workGraphene is a next-generation material, heralded as the future of electronics for several years now. However, the material is much more expensive to produce in large …

Tags:Graphene| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Production| Vol 22 - Issue 48

US Navy Research Looks at Glass Alternative

by Norbert Hildebrand

In a recent article “US Navy research looks at glass alternative”, it was suggested that a new high tech material could make a smartphone unbreakable by using a material developed for transparent armor and …

Tags:Glass| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 48

Folium Creates Low-Power Flexible Displays

by Tom Allen

Folium Optics is a UK start-up that is working with a technology to create low-power displays on plastic substrates. As well as being made of plastic – enabling flexible form factors – the displays …

Tags:Flexible Displays| Mobile Display Monitor| Reflective Display| Vol 22 - Issue 48