R&D (Research & Development) – Page 5

Taste the TV: Invention sends flavors straight to lickable screens

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Nikkei reports that Homei Miyashita of Meiji University, has a system using 10 cartridges to create a taste sample that is like certain foods. To reproduce basic flavours, it uses sodium …

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

An Elastic Light-Emitting Polymer for Stretchable, Wearable Displays

by Bob Raikes

What They Say We’re a bit late with this one, but a group of researchers from Stanford University have had a paper published in Nature on 23rd March that describes how they have made …

Tags:Flexible Displays| OLEDs| R&D (Research & Development)

Mojo Vision Has a Prototype

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Mojo Vision, which is developing contact lens AR displays (Mojo Vision Developing NanoLEDs) said that it has developed an ‘advanced prototype’ although nobody is said to have worn one, yet. The …

Tags:Augmented Reality| R&D (Research & Development)

Researchers Demonstrate a Practical Means to Fabricate Smart Textiles

by Arthur Berman

Hyung Woo Choi of the Electrical Engineering Division, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge (Cambridge, UK) was the first author on a recently published article describing the development of a smart textile. A smart …

Tags:Fabric & Textile Displays| Flexible Displays| R&D (Research & Development)

Soochow University Flat Lens Improves Light Field Displays

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The optics.org site has reported R&D work at Soochow University in China that is aimed at designing a nanostructured flat lens with an improved depth of focus. The work was published …

Tags:Autostereo 3D| Metasurfaces| Optics| R&D (Research & Development)

Noctiluca Sets Out Its Stall for Advanced OLED Materials

by Bob Raikes

The Pacific Northwest Chapter of SID held a webinar last month that featured a talk by Noctiluca, a company that is developing OLED emitter materials and one that I have been intending to write …

Large Format Advertising Influences Purchase Decisions – Says JCDecaux

by Bob Raikes

What They Say JCDecaux New Zealand has released a study on the positive effect of large format OOH advertising on the receptivity to other advertising such as mobile. The research was reported in the …

Tags:Digital Signage| DOOH| JCDecaux| Outdoor Displays| R&D (Research & Development)

OTFT: Driving LCD, OLED, MiniLED, MicroLED & NanoLED with Quantum Dot

by Sweta Dash

SmartKem and Nanosys announced on Feb 2nd their joint development agreement to work together on a new generation of low-cost solution printed MicroLED and quantum dot materials for advanced display. Both companies believe a …

An Inflection Point on Blue OLED Materials

by Bob Raikes

For more than two decades, OLED has had a particularly big weakness. Like other LEDs, it has always had challenges with producing blue light. But OLED material maker UDC may have made a significant …

Tags:OLED Materials| OLEDs| R&D (Research & Development)| UDC

Links Week Ending 25th February 2022

by Bob Raikes

Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. Here are (quite!) a few from the second part of this week. (Apologies – this should have been …

Researchers Taken Facial Recognition in VR to a New Level

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Researchers from Australia, New Zealand and India have used facial recognition technology to use users’ expressions to trigger actions in virtual environments, potentially reducing the need for hand-held controllers. Smiling, frowning …

Tags:face recognition| HMI| R&D (Research & Development)| Virtual Reality

Notion Systems Supplies InkJet to ITRI

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Notion Systems of Germany said that it has supplied an inkjet printing system developed in collaboration with MBraun of Germany, to ITRI In Taiwan. ITRI is now using the new n.jet …

Tags:Germany| InkJet Deposition| R&D (Research & Development)| Taiwan