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Kairos Makes Mechanical Watches Smart

by Raverstead

Kairos is trying to keep everyone happy by transforming old mechanical watches into ‘smartwatches’ (of sorts). The ‘Tband’ (currently being funded on Indiegogo) is a new strap with a rigid section containing the electronics …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| OLEDs| Smartwatches| Vol 21 - Issue 47

Fraunhofer Hosts Organic Electronics Course

by Raverstead

Fraunhofer FEP will run a course on organic electronics, including OLEDs, on 10th March in Dresden, Germany. OLED lighting, OLED-on-silicon, encapsulation and roll-to-roll technologies will be among those covered. Registration is €650. To register, …

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

Fraunhofer Investigates Flexible Lighting

by Raverstead

Germany’s Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) is funding an OLED project at Fraunhofer FEP. The R2D2 project will investigate production processes and technologies for manufacturing flexible OLEDs. R2D2 is primarily focused on …

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 …

University of Michigan Group Shows Improved Blue PHOLED

by Helen Vince

Display Components – A paper revealing a new blue PHOLED technology that could lead to longer battery life in smartphones and other mobile devices has been published in Nature Materials by researchers at the University of …

OLED Breakthroughs

by Super User

Unusually, we lead this week with a technical story. However, the breakthrough in blue lifetime could be significant indeed. It was 2003 when we reported two talks by David Fyfe of CDT, one of …

Sony’s Professional OLED Supports Rec.2020

by Super User

Sony’s professional OLED monitor that we saw at IBC last month (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 38) – the BVM-X300 – has been confirmed for a February 2015 availability date. As well as high …

Mitsubishi Chemical Doubles OLED Panel Life

by Super User

Earlier this year (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 13), Mitsubishi Chemical and Pioneer began to mass-produce OLED lighting modules, made with a wet-coating system. However, these had a lifespan of 15,000 hours. Mitsubishi has …

Samsung’s 14″ OLED Panel Suggests Laptop at IMID

by Super User

The International Meeting of Information Display (IMID) exhibition took place in Korea recently, with a range of products on show from both LG Display and Samsung Display. According to local media, SDC was due …

Displays Will Drive Organic Electronics Growth

by Super User

Organic electronics will grow quickly over the next six years, largely driven by displays. A new report by Allied Market Research (http://tinyurl.com/p3r86mv) says that organic electronics will grow at a 29.5% CAGR between 2014 …

LG: LCDs Produce Three Times More Blue Than OLEDs

by Super User

The Korean Photonics Technology Institute and LG Display have conducted a study on the output of blue light from different types of displays. Blue light in the 380-450nm wavelengths, such as that from most …