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SID and IHS Organise Touch Conference for Display Week

by Tom Allen

The Society for Information Display (SID) and IHS have announced the programme for SID’s Market Focus Conference on Touch, which will be part of the SID Display Week (31st May – 5th June). The …

Ultrasound Forms Physical Phone Controls

by Tom Allen

A new research paper (http://tinyurl.com/p96ytfp), by Disney Research and Carnegie Mellon University, details how ultrasound from a smartphone can be used to help form a physical input device. A plastic sheath for the phone …

Tags:3D printing| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Touch| Vol 22 - Issue 17

Apple Watch Touch Marked for Use on iPhone 6S

by Tom Allen

The next iPhone will use the same Force Touch technology as is featured on the Apple Watch, say Taiwanese panel makers. The sources say that Apple is experimenting with the placement of the sensor, …

Automotive Touch Grows at 18% CAGR, Shifts to Procap

by Tom Allen

Demand for touch screen automotive displays is rising rapidly, due to the widespread adoption of consumer devices such as smartphones and tablets. IHS predicts a CAGR of 18% through 2018 for automotive touch panel …

Canatu Achieves Super-Thin Dimensions on CNB Film

by Tom Allen

A new super-thin product has been added to Canatu’s range of transparent, conductive carbon nanobud films. The device is just 23µm thick, and targets thin devices and flexible applications. Canatu claims that it has …

Artist Paints With ShadowSense

by Tom Allen

Dutch artist Edo Draaijer has launched a new blog (http://tinyurl.com/qy99buw), where he demonstrates art created exclusively using Baanto’s Shadowsense touch technology. Shadowsense can distinguish between brush sizes and can sense the deformation of the …

Tags:Baanto| Back Panel| Large Display Monitor| Touch| Vol 22 - Issue 14

NLT’s Procap Touch Supports Gloved Operation

by Tom Allen

Content available to subscribers only. NLT Technologies has developed a new type of procap touch technology; a sensor and module combination are able to detect touches even when the screen is wet or the …

Apple Points the Way for User Interface Advances

by Phillip Wright

Apple’s March 9, 2015 press event disclosed a fairly extensive range of new products and initiatives. As I reported in my prior Display Daily (Notebook Computer Displays Evolve), the new MacBook (available April 10) …

IHS: Wearables and Vehicle Displays to Lead Touch Market

by Tom Allen

Worldwide small, medium and large touch panel demand has increased by double- or triple-digits in recent years. It is forecast to have risen 19.1% YoY in 2014 and will grow 15.1%, to 2.1 billion …

Silver Nanowires Approach $500 Million Value

by Tom Allen

A report by Nanomarkets (http://tinyurl.com/lsj7kf8) predicts that the market for silver nanowire-based transparent conductor materials will be worth $485 million by 2022. These materials are currently seeing increasing adoption in touch sensors. The market …

CeBIT 2015 Round Up

by Bob Raikes

Acer showed a new consumer idAcer was in the API area with mobile and monitor products. We have covered the mobile products before, but staff told us that there were new monitors. However, when …

Four DOOH Directions for ViewSonic

by Steve Sechrist

Viewsonic’s 70-inch touch interactive Display at DSE 2015 with full HD and six user interface selling for $7300ViewSonic was at DSE with many of the products it showed at ISE, just a few weeks …