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Anders Continues Operations With Truly

by Tom Allen

AndersDX is now able to supply circular TFT-LCD touch screens for wearable devices. Manufactured by Truly Semiconductor, in China, the modules are available in either a standard design or as a bespoke offering. The …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Touch| Vol 22 - Issue 28| Wearables

Chinese Makers Look to OLEDs

by Tom Allen

Etmag claims that Chinese panel makers are increasingly investing in AMOLED and PMOLED technologies, to secure flexible display orders from China-based wearable vendors. Everdisplay, Tianma (G6), BOE (G5.5) and CSOT (G6) are all said …

Wearables In Automotive: A Solution In Search Of A Problem?

by Helen Vince

A recent study from the In-vehicle UX group at Strategy Analytics (www.strategyanalytics.com) surveying consumers in the US and Western Europe has confirmed low interest in wearables for automotive use-cases. While younger males and luxury …

Tags:Automotive| Wearables

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 …

Wearable Software Ecosystem: Diversity or Monoculture

by Phillip Wright

The 2015 SID Display Week Wearable-Flexible Market Focus Conference hosted a session and panel discussion on Software for Wearables with speakers from Mozilla, Intel, and Runtastic. At this point in the penultimate session of …

For Wearables, Power is The Elephant in the Room (WF16)

by Phillip Wright

The 2015 SID Display Week Wearable-Flexible Market Focus Conference hosted a session and panel discussion on the role of and limitations for wearables imposed by power consumption and battery size, type and capacity. The …

Wearables: Enabling Human Augmentation (WF8)

by Phillip Wright

Ernesto Martinez, Head of Wearable Computing at Kopin, delivered a talk entitled Wearables: Enabling Human Augmentation during the Wearable-Flexible Market Focus Conference at SID Display Week. The speaker noted that Kopin, the venerable microdisplay …

A Smartwatch Developer’s View on Wearables (WF7)

by Phillip Wright

The Wearable-Flexible Market Focus Conference organized by IHS at SID’s 2015 Display Week featured a presentation by Andrew Witte, Founder and CTO, Pebble Technology. The Pebble smartwatch (pictured below) initially funded through crowd funding …

ImagineOptix Shows Polarization-Based Waveguide for AR Headsets

by Chris Chinnock

ImagineOptix has been on our radar for a few years because of its development of a Polarization Grating – Polarization Conversion System (PG-PCS). This is a clever technology that uses liquid crystal based polymer …

Google Smart Lens Kicks Off DAC 2015

by Tom Allen

Click to enlargeGoogle’s glucose-monitoring contact lens was a prototype a year ago (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 4), but was presented as a named product at the opening of the Design Automation Conference this …

Tags:Back Panel| Google| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 24| Wearables

Wearable-Flexible Display Market Update (WF10)

by Phillip Wright

Following the session and panel discussion with five speakers moderated by Jack Kent of IHS titled What are Wearables for Anyway, the Display Week 2015 Market Focus Conference – Wearables-Flexible proceeded to an overview …

What are Wearables for Anyway – Wearable-Flexible Display Market Update (WF7)

by Phillip Wright

The Wearable-Flexible Market Focus Conference organized by IHS at SID’s 2015 Display Week included a presentation by IHS analysts that touched on What are Wearables for Anyway and a Wearable-Flexible Display Market Update. Coming …