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A Dissolvable Smartwatch Makes for Easier Electronics Recycling  

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Wearable Technology reported on a paper from ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces that describes a two-metal nanocomposite for circuits that disintegrates when submerged in water. They demonstrated the circuits in a …

Tags:Printed Electronics| R&D (Research & Development)| Screen Printing| Smartwatches| Solution Processing| Wearables

Links Week Commencing 14th June 2021

by Bob Raikes

Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. Here are a few from the first part of this week. Technicolor deploys 20 million RDK broadband gateways …

Tags:CRT| Desktop Monitors| LG Electronics (LGE)| Samsung| Smart TV| STBs| Technicolor| UltraHD (4KTV)| Wearables

Smaller Companies Fuel Growth in Worldwide Wearables Market in 1Q21, Says IDC

by Artem Alekseenko

The appetite for wearable devices remained strong in the first quarter of 2021 (1Q21) even as volumes retreated from record fourth quarter levels. According to new data from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide …

Tags:Analytics & Tools| Apple| Huawei| IDC| Samsung| Wearable Market| Wearables| Xiaomi

Android and Tizen Merge for Wearables

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Google said at the Google I/O conference that it had decided to merge the Samsung Tizen smartwatch platform with Google’s WearOS to create a unified platform. What We Think This makes …

Tags:Google| Operating Systems| Samsung| Smartwatches| Wearables

Plastic Logic’s Colour Display Revolutionises Smart Wearables

by Artem Alekseenko

Plastic Logic, a leader in the design and manufacture of flexible, glass-free electrophoretic displays (EPDs), has announced a new flexible 5.4in colour display that is set to revolutionise smart wearable devices. Smart wearables, such …

Tags:EPD (Electrophoretic)| Plastic Logic| Wearables

JNTC to begin wearable cover glass production in 1st half

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Elec reports that JNTC will start making cover glass for wearables in the first half of this year, after it completes a new factory in Vietnam in Q2, delayed from …

Tags:Glass| Smartwatches| Wearables

Qualcomm XR Enterprise Program Doubles Roster of Industry-Leading

by Artem Alekseenko

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., a subsidiary of Qualcomm Incorporated, announced that its Qualcomm® XR Enterprise Program (XEP) first unveiled at Enterprise Wearable Technology Summit 2019, has doubled in membership. The Qualcomm XEP is designed to …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Qualcomm| Virtual Reality| Wearables

KAIST Developing a Wearable Display that is Self-Powered and Washable

by Arthur Berman

Think about clothing and an image that comes to mind may be of textiles that are both wearable and washable. Problems arise, however, when the image transforms to that of so-called smart clothing. As …

Tags:Fabric & Textile Displays| Flexible Displays| Korea| OLEDs| Wearables

MicroLED: Emerging as a Next Generation Display Technology

by Sweta Dash

MicroLED is emerging as next generation display technology because of its potential to be a thinner, brighter, lighter, and low power display. It combines the best features of LCD and OLED. It is considered …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Manufacturing| MicroLED| Wearables