Vol 21 – Issue 47 – Page 9

Rumor: Huawei to Release Honor Smartglasses in Late 2014

by Raverstead

With augmented reality glasses from Google still in an extended beta release for $1,500 a piece, the release of other augmented reality headsets, like the Vuzix M100 or Epson Moverio, is still a very …

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Heraeus’ Clevios F DH Designed for Temperature-Sensitivity

by Raverstead

Heraeus has partnered with DaeHa Mantech of Korea to develop dry heat and UV antistatic and conductive materials. The new materials will be marketed under the name of Clevios F DH (based on PEDOT:PSS). …

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CE Devices to Top Holiday Gift Giving

by Raverstead

Parks Associates says that the top gifts for the 2014 season will include wearable devices including smartwatches, plus connected entertainment, such as streaming media devices (Apple TV and Roku box) and the tried and …

Nimble Sense Hopes to Bring Hand Gestures into Virtual Reality

by Raverstead

Nimble VR (San Francisco, CA) is developing a depth sensing camera that captures the user’s hand and finger positions and motions such that they can be input to a virtual reality headset. Called, Nimble …

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TV Shipments Rebound After Soft First Half

by Raverstead

TV shipments climbed 4% YoY in Q3’14, following several quarters of low results – average TV shipment growth was less than 1% on both a unit and revenue basis in the first half of …

Qisda Enjoys Rising Shipments

by Raverstead

Taiwanese OEM Qisda has raised its monitor and projector shipments by 20% and 40% YoY in Q1-Q3’14, according to company president Peter Chen. The results put shipments at 11.8 million and 1.2 million, respectively …

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French Signage Market Remains Positive

by Raverstead

OVAB Europe has announced the results of its Digital Signage Business Climate Index (DBCI) (November/December) for France – Europe’s third-largest market for digital signage. Invidis carried out the survey, in partnership with Club du …

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Hon Hai, Innolux JV Plant to Supply Apple

by Raverstead

Following last week’s announcement that Hon Hai Precision and Innolux are to set-up a joint venture 6G panel production plant in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, it has emerged that the panels will be used in Apple’s …

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Vivitek Completes Qumi Range

by Raverstead

Vivitek’s Qumi range has been expanded to include three new LED DLP projectors for office, personal and home use. They are the Q7 Plus, Q7 Lite and Q4. The Q7 models are compatible with …

Qualcomm Supports Higher Mobile Resolutions

by Raverstead

Qualcomm has spoken out in support of UltraHD smartphone screens. By mid- to late-2015, there will be several smartphones on the market using the format, the company believes. In an open document, Qualcomm argues …

Kateeva Launches Flexible OLED Display Production Tool

by Raverstead

During the 2014 Printed Electronics Conference (Santa Clara, CA, November 18-20) Kateeva announced its YIELDjet FLEX manufacturing tool for flexible OLED displays. Kateeva offered attendees of Printed Electronics 2014 the opportunity to visit with …

Tablet Launches Will Fall Next Year

by Raverstead

Sources in the Asian supply chain say that several tablet vendors are reducing the number of models to be launched next year. Asus, Samsung and Lenovo are all likely to cut plans, the sources …

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