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Wearables Battle the Hype Cycle at WTS 2016

by Tom Allen

This was our first year attending the Wearable Technology Show in London’s ExCel Centre, which has been running since 2014. Already, the event is beginning to branch out to cover more areas, such as …

Tags:Android| Android Wear| Augmented Reality| Automotive| Dialog Semiconductor| Epson| Events| HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| iOS (Apple)| Mobile Apps| Mobile Display Monitor| Samsung| Sensors| SOCs| sony| UK (United Kingdom)| Virtual Reality| Vol 23 - Issue 11| Vuzix| Wearables

Zytronic Brings Multi-touch to the Smaller Screen

by Isaac Oburu

Zytronic, a leader in advanced, rugged Projected Capacitive Technology (PCT™ and MPCT™) touch sensors is unveiling a new multi-touch controller with a faster response time and gesture recognition support for smaller self-service touchscreen applications. …

Tags:Sensors| Touch Controllers

Eye-Worn Devices and the Next Wave of Wearable Displays

by Steve Sechrist

We saw how much of the buzz at CES was around virtual and augmented Reality (VR and AR), and the smartphones or near to eye micro-displays that power them. Out on the display horizon …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Contact Lens Display| IdTechEx| Sensors| Virtual Reality| Vol 23 - Issue 03

UniPixel Introduces XTouch™ and Diamond Guard™ Technology

by Isaac Oburu

UniPixel, Inc., today announced that it introduced its XTouch and Diamond Guard technologies to a number of leading PC manufacturers, touchscreen integrators, and component providers attending the 2016 Consumer Electronics Show (“CES”) in Las …

Tags:CES 2016| Sensors

Printed Electronics are Becoming Ubiquitous and Growing

by Phillip Wright

Three additional opening cornerstone presentations at the 2015 Printed Electronics Conference (Santa Clara, CA, November 17-20), provided insight into the nascent but growing pervasiveness of printed electronics. The speakers for the three presentations were …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Printed Electronics| Printed Electronics Conference 2015 (Santa Clara)| Sensors| Vol 22 - Issue 48

Japanese PC Maker Places Mass Order With UniPixel

by Tom Allen

A ‘leading PC manufacturer’ from Japan has placed an initial mass production order with UniPixel, for the company’s XTouch touchscreen sensors. The sensors will be used in a 10″ tablet. Initial delivery is expected …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Sensors| Supply Chain| Vol 22 - Issue 47

Touchless Sensors Worth $44 Billion by 2021

by Tom Allen

Touch Display Research estimates that the market for touchless human-machine interaction (HDMI) sensor technologies will be worth $44 billion by 2021 – up from $20 billion in 2016. “Gesture-control, voice-recognition, eye-tracking and many other …

Tags:Gaze Recognition| Gesture Recognition| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Sensors| Touch| Touchless Touch| Vol 22 - Issue 42

Sensor Enables Colour-Changing Touch – Without Touch

by Tom Allen

A team from Stuttgart’s Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research and LMU Munich has developed materials for ‘touchless’ touch control. In a nutshell, the electrical and optical properties the materials used change when …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Sensors| Touch| Touchless Touch| Vol 22 - Issue 41

Quantum Dots: Not just for Displays Anymore

by Matthew Brennesholtz

Everyone in the display community knows (or should know) of the application of quantum dots to improve display colorimetry to near Rec. 2020 standards. The high spectral purity that makes quantum dots usable for …

Tags:Colour (Color)| MIT| Quantum Dots| Sensors| Smartphones| Vol 22 - Issue 31