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Surface Haptic Technology is Being Applied to Flexible AMOLEDs

by Arthur Berman

A recent press release by Tanvas, Inc. (Chicago, IL), a developer of surface haptic technology, announced the results of a collaboration with “one of the world’s leading display suppliers.” The product of the collaboration …

Tags:Flexible Displays| Haptics| Touch

Links Week Ending 11th March 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. 8K screens to see the Sagrada …

Tags:Application Processors| CPUs| Desktop Monitors| Mediatek| MMD (AOC Philips)| Samsung| Smartphone Market| Super Hi-Vision (8K)| Testing| Touch| VideoConferencing| Virtual Sets

Flexible OLED Display will continue to Drive Next Gen Smartphones

by Sweta Dash

Technology developments, material improvements, product innovations combined with capacity expansions and higher competition will help flexible OLED display to gain higher share and drive the next generation smartphone market. There has been slowdown in …

Tags:BOE| CSOT| Flexible Displays| Foldable Devices| OLEDs| Rollable Devices| Rollable Displays| Samsung| Smartphone Market| Smartphones| Touch

Somalytics Bullish on Capacitive Gaze Recognition

by Bob Raikes

What They Say An intriguing press release came through in advance from CES that is from a company that we don’t know called Somalytics. The firm has a new touch system based on capacitive …

Tags:Gaze Recognition| Gesture Recognition| Touch

Ultraleap Launches its Fifth-generation Hand Tracking Platform

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Ultraleap (the merged company from Ultrahaptics and Leap Motion) put out a press release that highlighted how the firm’s technology for finger tracking can be used to create a ‘touchless’ touch …

Tags:Haptics| Kiosks| Touch

Turn Any Surface Into a Touchscreen 

by Bob Raikes

What They Say An article in the IEEE Spectrum highlights a new method for combining a rolling shutter camera with a scanning projector to allow optical sensing of depth with just a single camera, …

Tags:Projectors| Touch

E Ink Launches the World’s First On-Cell Touch ePaper Module

by Bob Raikes

What They Say E Ink announced that it has its first ePaper module with on-cell touch. The technology is available on its Kaleido colour EPD display or the monochrome Carta devices. The development of …

Tags:EPD (Electrophoretic)| eReaders| Touch

Apple to Launch a Foldable Phone Using AgNW in 2023

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The respected analyst Ming-Chi Kuo is reported by MacRumors.com as saying that Apple is planning an 8″ QHD+ flexible OLED-based folding smartphone in 2023. Samsung is likely to be the exclusive …

Tags:Apple| Cambrios| Display Drivers| Flexible Displays| Foldable Devices| iPhone| Samsung Display| Silver Nanowire| Touch| TPK

Apple Wins a Patent for ‘Thermal Touch’

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Patently Apple blog reported that Apple has got a patent for ‘thermal touch’ based on using data from infrared sensors. The technology is reported to be based on work done …

Tags:Apple| Patents| R&D (Research & Development)| Touch

The importance of touch-to-display response time in gaming

by Bob Raikes

What They Say DXOMark, the organisation that we tend to report when judging the image quality of cameras, has published an article about the importance of the response time of touch, especially in game …

Tags:Smartphones| Testing| Touch

Zymergen Uses Biology to Make Polyimide Films

by Bob Raikes

What They Say In the news about Touch Taiwan, I spotted a company that we haven’t reported on before, Zymergen, which makes films. The firm is based in the US, but has offices in …

Tags:Film materials| Flexible Displays| R&D (Research & Development)| Touch