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Apple Suppliers Boost Capex

by Milos Pavlovic

Digitimes has reported that two companies in the supply chain for touch on iPhones, General Interface Solutions and TPK Holdings, have both set aside substantial sums for capital investment ($163 million and $151 million, …

Sumitomo to Open New Factory for Curved OLED Displays

by Alan Spencer

A report in the Nikkei Asian Review suggests that Sumitomo Chemical intends to triple its manufacturing capacity to over 100 million curved OLED displays by setting up a new factory in Korea. The total …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Sumitomo| Touch| Vol 24 - Issue 09

ISE 2017 Round Up

by Bob Raikes

AG Neovo was showing a new 55″ dual sided LCD totem design for indoor use. The unit has an empty base which can be used for a driving PC or system.The company can also …

Canatu Touch Used by Daimler

by Bob Raikes

Canatu is pivoting to exploit its flexible touch technology to non-display applications and joined in the Startup Autobahn project with Daimler and the University of Stuttgart to create a transparent thermo-formed touch sensor on …

Zytronic Provides Mobile Phone Charging For Hajj Pilgrims

by Alan Spencer

Pilgrims travelling between Mecca and Medina in Saudi Arabia are now able to top up and recharge their phones at any of forty ZyBrid Projected Capacitive Technology (PCT) touch sensors from Zytronic. The distance …

Tags:Back Panel| Large Display Monitor| MEA (Middle East & Africa)| Touch| Vol 24 - Issue 04

Outdoor Phone Charging Stations use Zytronic Touch Sensors

by Isaac Oburu

Pilgrims travelling between Mecca and Medina in Saudi Arabia can now recharge and top up their phones at forty stations featuring incredibly durable ZyBrid® custom designed Projected Capacitive Technology (PCT™) touch sensors from Zytronic. …

Tags:Sensors| Touch

A Breakthrough for Optical Touch?

by Bob Raikes

This week, I spent a day at the BETT exhibition in London, where many of those involved in educational technology come together. What I found was something of a breakthrough in large display touch …

Tags:FlatFrog| Touch| Vol 24 - Issue 03

TanvasTouch Adds Haptic Capability to Touchscreen Displays

by Arthur Berman

Tanvas (Chicago, IL), a startup out of the Neuroscience and Robotics Laboratory at Northwestern’s McCormick School of Engineering (Evanston, IL), is developing a novel means to add haptic capability to touchscreen displays. The technology …

Tags:Haptics| R&D (Research & Development)| Touch| Vol 24 - Issue 03

UniPixel and GIS Reach an Understanding

by Yvette Raikes

UniPixel, which makes performance engineered films, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Foxconn subsidiary General Interface Solution (GIS). The MOU says that the two companies will form a strategic manufacturing project to …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Touch| Unipixel| Vol 24 - Issue 02

CES 2017 Round-Up

by Bob Raikes

Analogix was showing how its DisplayPort-based Slimport products could be used for VR applications, especially as it has developed SlimPort to MIPI display controllers that are available in single MIPI, dual Mipi or dual …

So What is Y-OCTA?

by Bob Raikes

Samsung is lining up to launch its next smartphone (which forecasters are calling the ‘S8’) and last week we saw a report that it would use a touch technology called ‘Y-OCTA’, used in the …

Tags:IHS Markit| Touch| Vol 23 - Issue 50

Zytronic Formalises Antimicrobial Gorilla Glass Release

by Bob Raikes

We reported on the adoption by touch screen maker Zytronic of Corning’s Antimicrobial Gorilla Glass in our Electronica report and now the company has formally announced it. (Zytronics Wins PCI Approval for Touch). The …