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Peratech’s QTC Enables Joysticks on a Smartphone Case

by Tom Allen

Peratech has worked with a company called Supenta, to create a smartphone case with a built-in game controller. Peratech’s Quantum Tunnelling Composite pressure-sensing technology is used in the Flitchio case; rather than using game …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Sensors| Smartphones| Vol 22 - Issue 28

Wearables Waiting for the Advent of Soft Electronics

by Steve Sechrist

The Apple Watch is now shipping with predictions it will bust all records for the nascent wearable category, with the lift coming primarily from the fan-boy base (OK, girls too) that believes Apple can …

Tags:Apple Watch (iWatch)| Novel Displays| Sensors| Vol 22 - Issue 25| Wearable Market| Wearables

Google Looks to Radars as Camera Replacement

by Tom Allen

Click to enlargeA new sensor, called Project Soli, which can be used to accurately track tiny hand movements has been shown off at Google I/O. The chip, for wearables, differs from other motion trackers …

Tags:Gesture Recognition| Google| Mobile Display Monitor| Sensors| Vol 22 - Issue 23| Wearables

Sharp’s Touch Registers Brush Strokes

by Tom Allen

In an event at its headquarters in Tokyo, Sharp has demonstrated a capacitive touch technology that is sensitive enough to register individual brush strokes. Photo credit: IDG News ServiceA special brush, with capacitive fibres, …

Tags:Free Form Displays| Large Display Monitor| large displays| Sensors| sharp| Touch| Vol 22 - Issue 11

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NHK and Forza Silicon Present 133 Mpixel 60 fps Image Sensor

by Matthew Brennesholtz

At the recent IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) held in San Francisco February 22 – 26, R. Funatsu from NHK Science & Technology Research Laboratories, (STRL) (Tokyo, Japan) and 11 of his colleagues …

Tags:Cameras| Mobile Display Monitor| NHK| Sensors| Super Hi-Vision (8K)| Vol 22 - Issue 15

US Military Develops Iron Man Suit

by Norbert Hildebrand

The US military (DoD) is looking to develop an iron man suit for its special forces units. It states that the new TALOS  (Tactical Assault Light Operators Suit) is also very helpful in other …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Military & Defence| Mobile Display Monitor| Sensors| Vol 22 - Issue 06

Wearable Sensor Market Set to Explode

by Helen Vince

Wearables – There is a coming age of sensors just around the corner, if you are a believer in the technology wave set to take over consumer electronics beginning (you guessed it) NOW. And that …

Tags:IHS Markit| Mobile Display Monitor| Sensors| Vol 21 - Issue 49| Wearable Market

Wearable Sensor Meets Fabric Displays

by Raverstead

Most analysts would agree, the age of wearables is upon us and many are looking to fancy new flexible LCD and OLED displays to drive adoption into the mainstream. But BeBop Sensors (Berkeley, CA) …

Tags:Fabric & Textile Displays| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Sensors| Vol 21 - Issue 46

Korean Team Prints Layers 1/1000 as Thick as a Hair

by Raverstead

A team at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) has a developed a printing technology that could be used for sensors and displays. KAIST’s nano-printing system can deposit thin layers – …

Tags:Flexible Displays| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Printable Display| Sensors

Sensors and Situational Intelligence

by Raverstead

IHS analyst Tom Hackenberg opened the Sensor Technologies session of TGM by discussing the role of sensors in achieving situational intelligence. Tom likened the situational intelligence of an electronic device to the human intuition …

Tags:IHS Markit| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Sensors| Vol 21 - Issue 45

Crocus Senses Flexing

by Raverstead

Crocus Technology, based in Switzerland, has developed a sensor solution for flexible displays, built on its Magnetic Logic Unit (MLU) technology. MLU is a CMOS-based architecture using magnetic fields. The new solution can detect …

Tags:Flexible Displays| Flexible PCBs| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Sensors| Vol 21 - Issue 44